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Ideal for data, engineering, or product leaders who want to build a function rather than inherit one.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nStand up the data team from scratch — you are the first hire and the owner.\n\nSource, license, and purchase real-world financial data and artifacts — data rooms, filings, models, decks — from across the industry.\n\nBuild the anonymization and compliance pipeline that turns sensitive industry data into training-safe assets.\n\nBuild the systems that catalogue, version, and distribute data so project teams can self-serve.\n\nAct as the internal supplier to our SPL project pods, fulfilling requests for data/tokens that are the foundation for our RL environments\n\nOwn vendor and data-provider relationships end to end, including negotiation and renewal.\n\nOwn data quality, provenance, and licensing terms — and the judgment calls about what we will and will not use.\n\nYou should have\n\nExperience building a data acquisition, licensing, or ops function — ideally one that did not exist before you arrived.\n\nStrong engineering instincts. 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