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title: 'Founding Data Lead at Agora Finance'
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# Founding Data Lead at Agora Finance

- **Company:** Agora Finance
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/agora/am9icG9zdDpRZYQjT_v3LjVz9t8daYkO

## Job description

## ABOUT AGORA

At Agora, our mission is to transform how money moves. We believe stablecoins will underpin a new financial fabric, one that is faster, more global, and more efficient than today's siloed systems. That is why we are building AUSD and the Agora stack, a full-service platform that makes issuing, managing, and integrating stablecoins seamless, whether you're a developer, fintech, or institution. With AUSD, stablecoins become programmable, composable, and ubiquitous by default.

We believe digital dollars should be a public good: trusted, accessible, and built for real-world utility. Our mission is to drive adoption through customizable, user-friendly on-ramps that make stable, dollar-based value available onchain.

We're backed by world-class investors including Paradigm and Dragonfly, and we're growing a team to reimagine how value moves online.

We're intentional about who we bring on. If you're passionate about stablecoins and want to help create more open, intuitive ways for people to engage with money, let's talk.

## ABOUT THE TEAM

We bring the discipline of high-performance finance teams and the creativity of a fast-moving crypto-native startup. We're a small, mission-driven group of builders who move fast, sweat the details, and hold a high bar for excellence, in product, code, and culture.

You'll be joining a tight-knit team that values clear thinking, extreme ownership, and high-velocity decision making. We operate in short feedback loops, support one another without ego, and are deeply motivated by the opportunity to build foundational infrastructure for the future of money.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As our Founding Data Lead, you'll build the analytics function from zero. You'll own the numbers the company runs on: how we define them, where they come from, and what they mean. High autonomy, high visibility, every part of the business.

You'll map data across our stack (onchain, product, financial, operational) into a coherent picture and tell the story of how Agora runs. Customer understanding is where you'll create the most leverage. You'll turn raw behavior into the insights that shape how we grow, where we invest, and what we build next.

You'll stand up self-service analytics so every team moves faster on its own, partner with engineering to raise the ceiling on what our data can do, and bring product analytics to life across the surfaces that matter.

## BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data engineering, ideally as an early data hire at a high-growth startup.
- Strong SQL. You can write complex queries across joins, window functions, CTEs, and subqueries without thinking twice.
- Experience building and maintaining dashboards and metrics frameworks (Metabase, Looker, or similar).
- Ability to translate messy business context into clean data models.
- Comfort working with high-volume event data and the tooling to process it efficiently (Spark, Databricks, ClickHouse, or similar).
- Clear communication. You can present findings to an exec team and make data-driven recommendations that stick.
- Working knowledge of data orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar).
- Proficiency with a product analytics platform (Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, Heap, or similar).

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with blockchain data: onchain indexing, subgraphs, multi-chain analytics, or DeFi protocols.
- Background in fintech, payments, or financial services.

Agora operates a centralized USD‑pegged stablecoin platform with robust compliance, security, and governance. We are equally committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

## About Agora Finance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Agora (Agora Ledger Corp.) issues the AUSD stablecoin and builds infrastructure for digital money movement, enabling instant, programmable payments for institutions and developers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Nick van Eck (CEO & Co-Founder) and Drake Evans (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – stablecoin issuance and digital payment infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – fintechs, institutions, developers, and enterprises needing programmable, dollar-backed digital assets
- **Mission statement**: “Transform how money moves” – building a faster, more global, and more efficient financial fabric via stablecoins ([agora.finance](https://www.agora.finance/))

## Products & Services
- **[AUSD (Digital Dollar)](https://www.agora.finance/)**: A 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin, fully collateralized by cash, overnight repo/reverse repo agreements, and short-term U.S. Treasury securities. Institutional-grade, freely tradable, and designed as a public good.
- **[White-Label Stablecoins](https://www.agora.finance/)**: A platform that allows partners to launch their own stablecoin in a day, tapping into AUSD’s liquid network.
- **[Instant Liquidity](https://www.agora.finance/)**: A product enabling atomic minting of AUSD against USDC and USDT, improving interoperability between stablecoins.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: USD 62M – Series A ($50M, July 2025) and Seed Round ($12M, April 2024) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/agorafinance), [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/agora-15))
- **Key Metrics**:
  - AUSD circulating supply: 200M+
  - Active networks: 15
  - Asset transfer volume: $45B+
  - Transfers: 17M+ ([agora.finance](https://www.agora.finance/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Paradigm, Dragonfly, General Catalyst, Consensys, Mirana Ventures ([CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/agora-15))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 30 employees across 9 countries (USA, Argentina, Singapore, Canada, UK, Spain, Poland, Bermuda, France) with 2.2% monthly headcount growth ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/agorafinance))
  - 7 active job postings as of Feb 2026 ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/agorafinance))
  - Team includes talent from Amazon, Chainlink Labs, Stellar Development Foundation, and other crypto/fintech leaders ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/agorafinance))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Institutional-Grade Collateral**: AUSD is 100% backed by cash, short-term U.S. Treasuries, and overnight repos – auditable and compliant.
- **Interoperability First**: Instant Liquidity enables seamless conversion between AUSD and other major stablecoins (USDC, USDT), lowering friction for users.
- **Top-Tier Investor Backing**: Support from Paradigm, Dragonfly, and General Catalyst provides capital, credibility, and network access.
- **Lean, High-Impact Team**: With 30 people, Agora offers a small-team environment where individual contributions directly shape the product and company trajectory.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding AUSD’s circulation and network presence, deepening partnerships across DeFi and traditional finance, and building out the white-label stablecoin offering to onboard new issuers globally.
- **Direction**: Position AUSD as an instant gateway to the global tokenized economy, with a focus on interoperability, scale, and regulatory readiness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Solve a core problem in digital finance – moving money at internet speed. Mission-driven, with a strong stablecoin thesis.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-optional; some roles (e.g., People Operations, Founding Data Lead) are hybrid in Jersey City HQ. Engineering roles are listed as remote (U.S.) ([jobs.gem.com/agora](https://jobs.gem.com/agora))
- **Team & Environment**: ~30 people, multi-country, flat structure with direct access to founders. Engineering culture emphasizes clean code, high uptime, and ownership from prototype to launch ([Built In](https://builtin.com/company/agora-agora-finance/jobs))
- **Notable Perks**: Backed by world-class crypto VCs; opportunity to work on cutting-edge stablecoin infrastructure; roles span engineering, product, data, and operations.

## Sources
1. [Agora Finance Website](https://www.agora.finance/)
2. [Agora Careers on Gem](https://jobs.gem.com/agora)
3. [Agora LinkedIn Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/agorafinance)
4. [Agora on CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/agora-15)
5. [Agora on Built In](https://builtin.com/company/agora-agora-finance/jobs)

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