Director of Data

About the role

Reporting to the CTO, you will own the data strategy and execution for Moonfare at a pivotal moment in our growth. You will inherit a capable team and a real mandate: to bring it together, raise the bar, and build a data function that is fit for where Moonfare is going. The role demands someone who can hold the strategic vision and get into the technical detail, knowing when to lead from the front and when to elevate the people around them.

What you'll do

• Define and execute the data strategy for Moonfare, building the platforms, pipelines, and governance that give the business a reliable, scalable, and intelligent data foundation to grow on.
• Bring 6 people across data engineering, analytics, and architecture into one cohesive team, setting the operating model, rituals, and standards that make the function more than the sum of its parts.
• Architect and build the infrastructure that sources, structures, and serves data across investment, investor relations, operations, and compliance use cases.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Product to make data the substrate that our AI and agentic capabilities are built on, and with the business to enable self-serve reporting and operational intelligence.
• Stay deep in the technical detail across architecture reviews, design decisions, and pipeline trade-offs, while also representing data credibly to executive stakeholders and the Board.
• Embed compliance and regulatory thinking into every layer of the platform, recognising the demands of operating in a regulated financial services environment.

What you'll need

• Deep, hands-on expertise across data engineering, AI, architecture, and pipelines, with ability to lead strategy and get into the weeds on the hardest technical problems.
• Experience building or significantly evolving a modern data platform in a regulated financial services environment, understanding what compliance, auditability, and data quality demand at the architecture level.
• Strong, opinionated point of view on what modern AI and agentic systems need from a data function, with practical experience putting that thinking into real products and platforms.
• Proven track record as an experienced people leader who has unified or scaled a multi-disciplinary data team.
• Ability to thrive in pressured, high-ambiguity scale-up environments and carry both strategic load and meaningful technical work.
• Credibility as a partner to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, able to translate between business outcomes and technical reality.

What they offer

• Individual growth budget of €1,500 or 2% of base salary (whichever is higher).
• Company pension scheme with 20% employer contribution.
• 25 vacation days, plus one additional day for each year of tenure, up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Free lunch daily in the Berlin office with rotating menu.
• Subsidised Deutschland job ticket for public transport.
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership across Germany.