About Ontra
Ontra is the global leader in AI legal tech for private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from 1M+ contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra's private markets technology platform streamlines and optimizes critical legal and compliance workflows across the full fund lifecycle. Ontra’s purpose-built solutions automate contracts, streamline obligation management, digitize entity management, and surface insights. Trusted by more than 800 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important to them.
Our Culture
Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it’s embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.
Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.
About the Role
Ontra is seeking a Senior Director, Data reporting to our VP, Product Operations.
To foster team connection and collaboration, this role requires being present in either our Santa Barbara or San Francisco office at least once per quarter for team meetings and off-sites. As such, we are only considering candidates who are currently based in California.
We’re looking for someone excited to champion enterprise-wide data management, drive innovative analytics initiatives, ensure data quality and integrity, and proactively translate insights into meaningful strategies for stakeholders.
If you are a visionary leader with exceptional analytical prowess, a knack for innovation, and a talent for cultivating team growth, we’d love to get to know you!
What You’ll Do
- Lead Data Team: Lead and develop a high-performing data organization, including data engineers, analysts, and scientists. Define team goals, mentor talent, and foster career development and growth.
- Define Data Vision and Strategy: Define the company’s data vision and strategy as an AI-first product company, and translate the strategy into actionable priorities and initiatives.
- Uphold Data Standards: Standardize data collection, storage, and usage practices across teams. Define and evolve data governance policies, ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and ethical standards.
- Manage Data Infrastructure & Engineering: Oversee the architecture and scalability of data pipelines, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, and storage. Ensure data quality, integrity, and accessibility for business intelligence and analytics.
- Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Partner with organizational leaders to understand business needs and deliver on cross-functional data initiatives that help stakeholders make informed business decisions for their functions.
- Inform and Enable the Business: Manage the analytics and data science functions to deliver a robust, self-service data platform, surface proactive data insights, and identify opportunities for growth and product innovation.
- Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in AI data architecture and recommend solutions to enhance Ontra’s data capabilities.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience: 10+ years in data analysis/science with 5+ years building and managing teams, preferably at high-growth companies
- Visualization expertise: Proficiency in Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel, and Segment or other data visualization tools
- Programming expertise: A strong background using SQL and Python to manipulate and analyze data
- Communication skills: The ability to articulate complex data concepts and insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders of various levels throughout the organization
- Attention to detail: The ability to ensure data accuracy and reliability in all analyses across your teams
Pay Transparency
Ontra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below. Additionally, all positions are eligible for unit-based equity grants.
Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission or other variable compensation structures, which is not included in the below base pay range.
If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.
Hiring Locations
We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.
United States
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
APAC
Hong Kong
EMEA
United Kingdom
Benefits Snapshot
- Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
- Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
- Paid flexible time off policy
- Paid parental leave and benefits
- Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
- Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
- Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Travel
Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.
Inclusivity
Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
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Note on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.
Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to Ontra will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
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What We Do
Ontra is the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra’s solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors – including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide – Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important.
Why Work With Us
We’re a team of builders, innovators, and problem-solvers. We operate with the agility of a startup and the impact of an industry leader. If you’re driven by purpose, powered by curiosity, and excited to transform how business gets done, Ontra is where you’ll do your best work.
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