VP, Data Product and Operations

Why this role matters

At CB Insights, our mission is to create insight for all.

We equip the world’s leading corporations and investors with intelligence to bet on the right markets, stay ahead of competitors, and source the right companies. 

Our business graph maps 10 million companies and predicts the future with rigorous data science. It powers everything we offer, and we’re seeking a leader to scale it.

We’re seeking an accomplished executive who brings entrepreneurial creativity, operational rigor, and deep, firsthand experience with the private markets. You have built high performing data acquisition organizations and sourced companies yourself, working in venture capital, corporate development, or strategy.

If you’re energized by using AI to find signal in a world full of noise, then we want to hear from you.

Your Impact

As Vice President, Data Product & Operations, you’ll own the vision, strategy, and execution for our portfolio of datasets and algorithms. You will lead the teams responsible for identifying new datasets, growing current ones, and building predictive models.

You Will:

• Set the vision and roadmap for the business graph—what data we collect, how we collect it, and what predictions we build on top.
• Lead a global team of 100+ across data operations, primary and secondary research, data partnerships, and data product management.
• Drive rigorous operational excellence to improve data coverage, quality, and freshness across millions of companies, markets, and signals.
• Develop creative and scalable strategies for data acquisition—including direct contribution, AI-driven extraction, and partnerships with investors, corporations, and similar companies.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering to build predictive models that power customer-facing use cases such as company health, commercial maturity, and M&A likelihood.
• Champion the use of AI within data operations to achieve 10x productivity improvements and unlock new capabilities previously out of reach.
• Partner with Product Marketing to shape the go-to-market strategy for our data, framing its positioning, pricing, packaging, and differentiation.
• Serve as the executive voice of our business graph with colleagues, customers, and partners.

What You Bring

• Private market fluency: You have firsthand experience sourcing investments, conducting due diligence, and analyzing markets–along with the data that moves these workflows forward.
• Operational scale: You’ve built and scaled global data teams in financial data platforms or expert networks, with measurable success in driving quality, speed, and coverage.
• Track record of new product innovation: You’ve conceived and launched data-driven products and machine learning models that solve high-value customer problems.
• Customer obsession: You uncover the jobs to be done behind complex workflows. You’ve sat with customers and seen how decisions get made in the real world.
• Technical acumen: You are a credible partner to engineering and data science. You understand how models are built, trained, validated, and shipped.
• Builder’s bias: You move fast, work iteratively, and ship before things are perfect. You thrive in ambiguity and bring others with you.
• Clear communication: You create energy and context for the people around you. You’re a compelling storyteller.
• Hands-on leadership: You sweat the details. You dive into the data. You debug problems side-by-side with your team. You believe great strategy comes from knowing the ground truth.

Please note this is a US-based role.

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.

A little bit about our pay practices: Typically, we will hire at our Hiring Target, but actual starting pay may be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, and budgetary constraints.

Compensation$250,000—$275,000 USD

What we're all about 

We're on a mission to advance the technology economy -- one driven by innovation, markets, and entrepreneurship. We believe a thriving technology economy powers a thriving society. By synthesizing, analyzing and visualizing millions of data points, we deliver a 360° view of the technology economy – powering the insights that buyers, sellers, investors, and advisors need. 

As a CBIer, you can expect to leverage generative AI to drive creativity, efficiency, and  strategic decision-making. Our culture is infused with the spirit of exploration and experimentation – and AI is a catalyst for new ideas and breakthrough solutions.

CB Insights Leadership Principles

• At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
• We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work. 

1. Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process. 
2. Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
3. Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
4. Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
5. Danger zones: 
6. Data informs. Insight transforms.  Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
7. Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
8. Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work. 
9. Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
10. Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.

You’ll want to work here if

• You are excited about how AI is transforming tech 
• You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow 
• Your instinct is to work smarter not harder 
• You love developing as a SME with a POV
• You are motivated by challenges and big ideas 
• You believe in radical personal accountability 

You don’t want to work here if: 

• You are a tech pessimist 
• Radical Candor is not your style 
• You like to build big processes 
• You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details 
• You prefer to operate in your comfort zone 
• You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes 

What We Offer:

• Award-winning culture: recognized by Inc. and Built-in for leadership, career opportunity, and engagement 
• Industry Insight: over 500k+ people follow our tech newsletter: sign up here
• Holistic compensation: cash, rich healthcare insurance benefits including PPO, HSA, and FSA options, multiple  mental health resources, pet insurance, 401k match, annual education stipend, and generous paid time off.  

About our pay practices

We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions consider factors like qualification, location, internal equity, and market data.

Our compensation philosophy goes beyond base salary. To align with your dedication and success, we offer total compensation as innovative as the work we do - this includes variable cash potential, 401k matching, flexible healthcare options plus mental health resources, professional development and education stipends, great PTO, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.