Head of Data & Intelligence

Creandum is seeking a Head of Data & Intelligence to build and own the firm's data platform, intelligence layer, and associated governance. The role involves developing data architecture, retrieval and agent tooling, access controls, AI risk safeguards, and technology strategy while personally shipping tools and establishing a long-term roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• The firm's data architecture end to end: warehouse, ingestion from core systems (CRM, meeting transcripts, documents, email/calendar), entity resolution, and data quality. One person, one company, one deal – consistent across every source. This is foundational; everything else flows from it
• Retrieval, search & agent tooling that give everyone's AI real firm context, serving both individual workflows (bottom-up) and firm-wide platforms (top-down). Built for passive compounding: the system gets better as people work and as models improve, without depending on anyone's discipline
• The access model as structural enforcement, not instructions: who sees what, with identity, provenance, and audit. Sensitive fund and partner data protected to a standard the partnership will trust, plus the AI-specific risk judgment (injection containment, egress, tool guardrails) for everything the function ships, in collaboration with legal/regulatory counsel
• Accountability for whether the firm's tools are the right ones: evaluation, integration, and replacement of the systems and data sources the firm runs on, in close partnership with the stakeholders who use them. Buy when buying is better; build when building is better. You have the mandate to choose, and then execute on your decision. Make sure security, compliance and budget are part of the equation
• A complete map of the firm's data and systems. The foundational data platform stood up. Two or three lightweight tools shipped that visibly improve how a team works. A clear, prioritized 12–18 month roadmap, authored by you and agreed with the partnership
• V1 of the firm's shared intelligence layer live and in daily use. The diligence process made genuinely multiplayer; firm knowledge and meeting history informing live deals instead of sitting unused. Measurable adoption, reported honestly, with failures killed as quickly as the wins are shipped
• The roadmap is yours to define. Candidates for the frontier: productizing how the firm wins deals, network intelligence that answers "who do we know" in seconds, platform tools founders can self-serve, and operational automation across finance, events, and admin
• You ship personally. This is not a role for someone who wants a team of ten doing the building
• Stakeholders across the firm (investment, platform, marketing, operations, etc.) steer, test, and tune what you build. Within a year, everyone at the firm should be able to point at something they had a hand in shaping
• Prototype, validate with real users, kill what doesn't get adopted. Usage is the metric; expect and budget for churn
• You start solo. As the foundation proves out, you'll orchestrate internal or external build resources and potentially grow the function. You are prepared to identify, leverage and lead exceptional talent to help achieve results