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Senior Director, Marketplace Operations & Health

220k – 256kWashington, DCAustin, TXNew York, NYChicago, ILBusiness OperationsHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

Lead optimization and health of Upside's marketplace operations, building monitoring frameworks, managing incidents, and driving continuous improvement with a team of 3 ICs. Requires 7+ years in data/marketplace ops and strong cross-functional leadership.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end optimization and health of Upside’s marketplace operations, from retailer data pipelines through marketplace systems
  • Identify opportunities to drive overall growth and accelerate strategic initiatives through optimization and tuning of marketplace systems
  • Execute, deliver and report on strategies to accelerate growth and drive strategic initiatives
  • Define and deliver a continuous improvement roadmap to CPO-level leadership, surfacing trends, patterns, and systemic risks
  • Define the monitoring model, alerting thresholds, and SLAs that underpin marketplace reliability
  • Build and operate a layered health model that detects anomalies, data quality failures, and marketplace disruptions in real time
  • Lead the incident lifecycle for data and quality failures: detection, triage, resolution, and post-mortem review
  • Embed Lean/Six Sigma discipline to systematically reduce root causes of quality issues
  • Push validation and self-healing capabilities upstream into the core product
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, and B2B/B2C commercial teams
  • Manage and develop the Marketplace Operations team (currently 3 ICs)
  • Apply AI-centric approaches to monitoring, investigating, and scaling operations

Requirements

  • 7+ years in data operations, marketplace/platform ops, or system data reliability engineering with a business focus
  • Cross-functional leadership experience across Data Engineering, Ops, Marketing and GTM/Sales
  • Incident management and post-mortem ownership
  • Experience building health monitoring frameworks at scale (alerting, SLAs, dashboards)
  • Strong data literacy and analytical fluency (SQL, data pipeline awareness)
  • Track record of driving systematic improvement

Nice-to-Haves

  • Lean/Six Sigma experience (DMAIC and similar frameworks)
Skills
SQLData OperationsIncident ManagementData PipelineMonitoring FrameworksSLAsLean Six SigmaMarketplace OperationsData ReliabilityCross-functional Leadership
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