Data Lead

Who is Risk Labs?

Risk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.

What is UMA?

UMA's optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.

What is Across?

Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO. Across' purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient. Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across.

The Data Lead’s work will span both Across and UMA. This role demands strategic data leadership combined with a love for being hands-on in the data–working directly with data, analyzing it through the lens of deep product knowledge and industry insight. Beyond delivering actionable analyses, you will partner closely with product teams to surface key trends, identify optimizations, and proactively address potential issues before they ripple through the market. You’re someone who can balance precision with a desire to move fast and learn along the way. As the lead, you’ll take initiative and be excited about carving your own path with an incredibly talented and thoughtful team to work alongside.

• Analytics Leadership & Insight: Drive the analytics agenda by applying a product mindset to identify and prioritize the most impactful product and business questions, independently performing deep, hands-on analyses, and delivering dashboards and reports that shape strategic decisions.

• Data Pipeline Integration & Modeling: Collaborate closely with data engineering to onboard and model new data sources. Write SQL/Python (or similar) scripts to source, extract, clean and optimize analytics-ready data for downstream uses–balancing rigor with speed.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Act as the analytics partner for Product, Engineering, and company leadership, surfacing trends, anomalies, and opportunities early, and translating data into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Data Stewardship & Optimization: Ensure the data leveraged for analytics is accurate, well-structured, and aligned with business priorities, focusing effort where it drives the most impact.

• Domain Expertise: Leverage deep understanding of crypto, DeFi, interoperability to contextualize data, anticipate emerging trends, and convert historical insights into forward-looking recommendations.

• 5+ years experience in advanced data/analyst roles in related industries, with a preference for at least 2 years leading the function/team.

• Mastery of SQL and Python; strong experience in data modeling, ETL or data pipeline scripting, and business-intelligence/dashboard tools.

• Demonstrated ability to craft the right analytical questions, think critically, balance speed versus depth, and deliver insights that drive measurable business outcomes.

• Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong.

• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and time management.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

• We’re looking for forward-thinking individuals who are curious about, comfortable with, and eager to adapt to the evolving role of AI in modern work.

• Deep industry insight with a solid understanding of crypto markets, DeFi, interoperability challenges, and the ability to weave these into analytics.

Our tech stack: BigQuery, Preset/Superset, Python, dbt, Airflow, Typescript,Node.js, Solidity, viem, React, ethers

• Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options.

• Salaries for this role range from $100-200k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem.

• Will pay in stablecoins or fiat

• Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)

• 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in

• At least two team wide offsites a year

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our values:

1) We value each individual’s right to economic freedom

2) We value openness, honesty, and directness.

3) We value integrity.

4) We value iterative learning.

5) We value taking smart risks. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.

Why do we love working at Risk Labs?

We are a group that's aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We're building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.

UMA's optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world.

Across is forging the path for intents-based solutions and settlements, creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life.

Still want to know more?

• Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly... to name a few.

• Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness.

• You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best!