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# Data Operations Associate at Enigma

- **Company:** Enigma
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2025-04-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio/jobs/6803803

## Job description

The Opportunity

We believe that the future of the small business economy runs on data. At Enigma, we’re building a one-stop shop for data on SMBs- the single, most reliable source of data about businesses to unlock access to capital.

By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. That's why financial leaders like Capital One, Truist, and many other top companies are using Enigma’s data to better serve their small business customers.

We are looking to hire a Data Operations Associate who is excited and driven to play a key role in supporting our GTM and Product activities. As we pursue our mission of providing customers with unique insights on small businesses, your work will own customer-related data operations and customer onboarding projects, establish and improve data processes, and ensure high-quality data services for our customers.

## The Role

As a Data Operations Associate, you will be on the front lines helping us meet our company’s mission of being the most reliable and accessible source of data and intelligence on small businesses. You will work closely with Enigma’s Customer Success and Product teams and use your scrappy process management and data analysis skills to showcase the power of our SMB data to our customers and prospects.

We stand by the power of our data and you will create impact by driving efficient processes and delivering high-quality products to our customers. The ideal candidate is motivated by seeking out the business value of data and gaining experience in go-to-market efforts, looking deeply into the specifics of data products and distilling problems down to their simplest solvable core.

## What You'll Do

- Fuel GTM activities at a fast paced startup environment from an operations perspective
- Scale and manage data and onboarding operations to streamline customer lifecycle end-to-end
- Own and lead data analysis projects, and generate the insights that help drive customer conversations forward
- Prepare regular reports to communicate data quality metrics and improvements to stakeholders
- Conduct thorough data quality checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of datasets, and investigate issues
- Generate and maintain detailed documentation of data operations processes and data dictionaries
- Work hand-in-hand with the CS and Product teams to inform the product roadmap and data tooling investments
- Gain experience and train in developing tools and reports using best-in-class tech stack and infrastructure
- Make an impact on Enigma’s growth from day one

What Makes This Role Exciting?

- Exposure: You will be situated at the cutting edge of data, GTM and product at Enigma and there will be many mentorship opportunities in this role.
- Learning opportunity: You will learn first-hand how financial institutions make crucial business decisions with our data and drive the operations to help them do so.
- Impact: You will be at the core of Enigma’s customer service engine, providing value to customers starting from day 1.
- Market-Changing Technology: Enigma is changing the way underwriting, risk monitoring, and marketing is done for small and medium businesses.

Our Ideal Candidate

- Is a self starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively
- Has strong analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to extract, manipulate and analyze data with a keen eye for detail
- Has proficiency in one or two data wrangling tools for tabular data, including SQL
- Brings strong business intuition to make sense of complex business data
- Has project management experience owning complex, custom deliverables and onboarding workflows end-to-end
- Has passion for data-driven decision-making and an eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Is curious, coachable, reliable and driven for growth

Bonus Points If You

- An undergraduate degree in engineering, statistics or a data-related field
- Prior experience in data analytics, data operations or business analytics positions
- Prior experience with data products and/or strong understanding of machine learning concepts
- Familiarity with the world of enterprise software, data-as-a-service, or business intelligence tools
- 0-2 years experience working with data

## About Us

At Enigma, we’re building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values – generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive – guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Salary Range: $80,000-$150,000

A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we’re creating together

## About Enigma

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Enigma provides a business identity infrastructure platform that resolves public and third-party data into a comprehensive profile for every U.S. business, powering verification, risk, and growth use cases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Late-stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided materials

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Data Analytics, Financial Services Technology (FinTech), Risk & Compliance.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily targeting Enterprise and SMB-focused financial institutions, payment processors, and fintech companies. Specific customer roles include Risk & Compliance Leaders and Payments Leaders.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide comprehensive intelligence about the identity and financial health of small and medium businesses, creating a single source of truth so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive.

## Products & Services
- **Enigma Identity Graph**: The core product, a knowledge graph that links 100M+ registrations, 30M+ brands, and 2B+ relationships into a single, unified profile for every U.S. business. It cross-references websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active.
- **KYB & Onboarding**: A solution to automate Know Your Business (KYB) verification using government sources, designed to onboard more customers and reduce operational costs.
- **Customer & Transaction Screening**: A risk and compliance tool for screening customers and transactions against sanctions lists and internal risk appetites, for both initial onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
- **Merchant Transactions Signals**: Data derived from over 30 billion anonymized transactions (representing $4.5+ trillion in annual volume) to provide payment leaders with insights on merchant payment volume and identify growth opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided materials (requires further research).
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring for senior engineering and go-to-market roles, indicating a growth phase. They market a specific "Merchant Transactions Signals" product derived from a massive card panel, suggesting significant data network effects.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Business Identity Graph**: Their key differentiator is solving the "chaotic problem of business identity" by linking brands, DBAs, locations, and legal entities into a single profile, going beyond simple DBA matching.
- **Data Depth & Scale**: Combines hundreds of public and third-party sources with proprietary machine learning to provide a more complete and accurate view of a business. Their card transaction data panel (30B+ transactions) is a unique data moat.
- **Reliability**: Employs cross-referencing of websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active and real, filtering out "ghost" businesses, which is a major pain point in financial services.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Enablement**: Their product is designed to be queried by both people and AI agents. They position the Identity Graph as providing "ground truth" for AI systems, which is a clear strategic priority.
- **Platform for Financial Services**: The company is focused on being the infrastructure layer for financial services, powering workflows for "KYB, underwriting, and sanctions screening."
- **Growth & Product-Led**: They have a dedicated "Product Lead, Growth" and "Senior Software Engineer, Growth" role, indicating a strategic focus on building a growth engine around their product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes core values of "generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive" and describes itself as a team of "curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds."
- **Transparent Compensation**: Enigma has a formal, transparent compensation philosophy based on "Five Levels of Impact," with salary and equity ranges shared internally. They conduct semi-annual performance reviews and calibrations, which they report receives positive employee feedback.
- **Work Environment**: Offers a hybrid workspace where employees can choose to work remotely or from offices in New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA, with a flexible policy. They prioritize hiring in the NYC/LA/SF markets.
- **Technology & Team**: Uses a modern tech stack (Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, React, etc.) and is actively building a strong engineering team, as evidenced by multiple senior-level openings.
- **Benefits**: Offers a broad set of perks including 401(K), company equity, parental/family leave, disability and life insurance, free snacks, and commuter benefits.

## Sources
1. [Job Boards (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio)
2. [Enigma.com Official Site](https://www.enigma.com/)
3. [Built In NYC](https://builtin.com/company/enigma)
4. [Enigma Blog: Compensation Philosophy](https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/our-compensation-philosophy-transparency-uniformity-fairness)
5. [About Us Page](https://enigma.com/company/about-us)

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