You're a seasoned product and engineering leader with deep technical judgment, ready to define the enterprise data and automation strategy for a major SaaS comp
Work type: remote
Location: Dallas, Texas; San Diego, California; Remote - San Francisco, CA; Remote - Denver, CO; Remote - Atlanta, GA; Remote - Chicago, IL; Remote - Washington DC, United States
Salary: $240,000 – $300,000/yr
Type: Full-time
You're a seasoned product and engineering leader with deep technical judgment, ready to define the enterprise data and automation strategy for a major SaaS company. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, MIS, or a related field is required. **What makes it worth a look...** This full-time, fully remote leadership role at AppFolio offers a compensation of $240,000 - $300,000 annually. You'll report directly to the CTO and own the AI and automation mandate for a company serving the vast real estate industry. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and automation platforms. * Possess expertise in semantic layers, cloud data platforms (especially Snowflake), and data governance. * Have architected integrations across enterprise systems like Salesforce, Workday, and Snowflake. * Have led data strategy at a scaling SaaS company for at least 5 years, with 10-15+ years in senior leadership.
### Description
AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.
This is a leadership opportunity to define how a forward-thinking public SaaS company operates in the age of AI. You'll report directly to the CTO, partner across every function in the business, and own the data and automation strategy for a company serving the $20T+ real estate industry. The Data Science & Analytics team is established and strong. The AI and automation mandate is largely in your hands to envision and build. If you've spent your career at the intersection of product and engineering, defining what to build and evaluating how it's built, and you're ready to apply that at enterprise scale with real organizational authority, this is the role.
The CDAO is responsible for unlocking measurable efficiency and scalability across AppFolio's operations through enterprise data strategy and intelligent automation. This leader builds the data foundation, semantic layer, and automation platforms that enable every function to operate faster and smarter, replacing manual workflows with scalable, instrumented processes. The CDAO is a critical member of AppFolio's data governance program led by the Trust organization, and partners closely with Security and Compliance to ensure all capabilities meet AppFolio's standards by design.
Your impact
AppFolio is becoming an AI-native operating company. We've taken meaningful first steps and are excited about what's possible when AI agents and automation are applied across every operational function: Finance, HR, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and beyond. This role owns the strategy that converts that potential into real operational improvement. Success requires deep partnership across the entire organization. The CDAO must be equally effective partnering with the CFO on financial operations, the CLO on data governance and compliance, the CRO on revenue workflows, and the CHRO on employee systems.
AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.
Why AppFolioGrow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.
Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.
Impact| We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.
Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.
Paddle as One.
Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers
Statement of Equal Opportunity
At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.