--- title: 'VP, Data Platform & Engineering at WISEcode' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/vp-data-platform-engineering-wisecode-united-states-0mpk48naw6xw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # VP, Data Platform & Engineering at WISEcode - **Company:** WISEcode - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wisecode/b4369292-00ba-4487-bb8e-2306e017d082 ## Job description We are hiring a VP of Data Platform & Engineering to make WISEcode data the easiest and most trustworthy data to consume, inside and out, and to own the machine that ships it safely. This is not merely a pipeline-plumbing role. You will own and develop a portfolio of data products, the engineering motion that ships them, and the trust boundary that protects the corpus from leaking into external AI systems. You set the AI-native engineering standard the rest of the data org builds to. Your pillar spans: Platform: a portfolio of internal data products, delivered as authenticated capabilities and contracts. Engineering: the shipment motion that moves a food record from raw input to scored, published output, automated and agentic. Data security and governance: the trust boundary, least-privilege access, and the enforcement of our corpus-stewardship doctrine. ## About this Role As VP of Data Platform & Engineering, you own the substrate under every other data pillar. You will: - Kill the single-gatekeeper deploy model and replace it with a real deploy regime where production access carries responsibility. - Define gold-certification by code, so quality is promoted by written criteria, never declared by hand. - Build and run the platform as a portfolio of data products with clear contracts to the domain teams. - Own data security and governance: take the our key data products to general availability, enforce least privilege, and retire ad-hoc database credentials. - Stand up observability so we can see what the platform is doing, not guess. ## What You'll Work On - Building the deploy regime that lets every engineer ship without a single point of failure. - Implementing the medallion architecture with gold certified by code, and separating pipeline state from food facts. - Enable access to data products through MCPs and other AI friendly interfaces that honor our security and governance posture. - Building operational excellence within our data practices at WISEcode. - Building a reusable/plugable entity-resolution service to replace one-off fixes. - Running the platform as automated, agentic workflows with your own development harnesses. - Managing data engineering ICs. What Success Looks Like Within the first several months, you have: - Removed the deploy bottleneck and unblocked the rest of the data org. - Defined and enforced gold-certification-by-code. - Implemented our core promotion and release operation. - Given the org visibility into platform health it did not have before. Over time, success means WISEcode data is queryable by a person or an agent without tribal knowledge, trustworthy enough to survive an audit, and shipped on a cadence measured in days. AI Skills and Mindset WISEcode is an AI-native company, and this role sets the bar for what that means in engineering. You will: - Build automated, agentic pipelines rather than only manual runbooks. - Operate with your own AI development harness and raise the standard for your team an the wider organization. - Design the platform so employees get the full power of frontier models without exposing the corpus. - Treat probabilistic systems with architectural guardrails, not trust in behavior. We are not looking for someone who treats AI as novelty. We are looking for someone who treats it as infrastructure. ## Qualifications - 10+ years in data engineering, data platform, or infrastructure, including team leadership. - A track record of building data products and teams from zero to one. - Deep command of data contracts, medallion or equivalent quality architecture, and promotion discipline. - Strong data-security judgment: least privilege, trust boundaries, and access control. - Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic engineering as a primary way of working. - Strong SQL and systems-thinking across UI, API, database, and infrastructure boundaries. - Ability to operate in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment. ## Nice to Have - Experience with MCPs, capability layers, or API-first data access patterns. - Experience with observability tooling and production diagnostics. - Experience with Postgres, DuckDB or MotherDuck, and cloud infrastructure. - Experience building internal developer tooling or data-product platforms. Why Join WISEcode? - Own the platform and security foundation for one of the most ambitious food intelligence platforms in the world. - Convert the org's worst bottleneck into its strongest, most defensible capability. - Work directly with the CDO on the architecture and operation that protects the company's core asset. - Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and rapid impact. - Solve real problems at the intersection of AI, data, security, and human health. ## About WISEcode ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: WISEcode is a food intelligence platform that scans packaged foods to reveal ultra-processed ingredients and provides AI-powered personalized nutrition insights for consumers, brands, and retailers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held LLC) - **Headquarters**: Reno, Nevada, United States (with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Food Technology / Nutrition Intelligence / AI-powered Food Data - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers via mobile app), B2B (food brands, retailers, researchers), B2G (research institutions like the National Cancer Institute and USDA) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "WISEcode exists to turn the complexity of food into clear answers, because everyone deserves to know what is actually in what they eat." ## Products & Services - **WISEcode UPF Detector App**: A mobile application that scans packaged foods and instantly identifies ultra-processed ingredients, giving consumers clear answers about what's really in their food. Available for both iOS and Android. - **WISEcoach™**: An AI-powered personalized nutrition coach that analyzes thousands of food attributes against individual health goals, providing recommendations for energy, sleep, and overall health improvement. - **WISEcode Non-UPF Verification™**: A science-backed certification program for food brands that proves their products meet the standard for non-ultra-processed food, helping verified brands get discovered by shoppers and retailers seeking cleaner food options. - **WISEcode Intelligence™**: An AI-powered food answer engine drawing from a database of over one million products, providing instant, plain-language answers to questions about any food for consumers, brands, retailers, and researchers. - **NFP+™ Data Platform**: The underlying data infrastructure capturing 1,000 times more attributes per product than a standard nutrition facts panel, with proprietary WISE™ AI analyzing ultra-processing status and nutritional composition. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly disclosed (Private company) - **Headcount**: 39 employees (+35.0% YoY, +14 people) - **Notable Partners/Customers**: National Cancer Institute, USDA, universities in the US and Canada; researchers actively use WISEcode data to study links between food processing and health outcomes - **Growth Signals**: - 35% headcount growth year-over-year - Active job postings up 200% year-over-year - Launched first consumer app in December 2024 (Business Wire announcement) - Data actively used by major research institutions - Growing presence in the ultra-processed food (UPF) detection space, a rapidly expanding market segment ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Data Moat**: NFP+™ data captures 1,000x more attributes per product than standard nutrition labels, creating a defensible data advantage - **AI-First Approach**: Uses machine learning/AI (WISE™ AI) to classify ultra-processed foods at the ingredient level, a capability competitors lack - **Scientific Credibility**: Data used by the National Cancer Institute, USDA, and universities — giving the platform institutional validation - **First-Mover Advantage**: The first app to decode hidden truths in food (launched December 2024), with no direct competitor having solved this problem yet - **Multi-Sided Platform**: Serves consumers, brands, retailers, and researchers simultaneously, creating network effects across the food ecosystem ## Strategic Focus - **Consumer App Growth**: Scaling the UPF Detector app to become the go-to consumer tool for food transparency - **B2B Certification Program**: Expanding the Non-UPF Verified™ program to more food brands seeking certification - **Research Partnerships**: Deepening relationships with academic and government institutions using WISEcode data - **AI Product Expansion**: Continuing to develop WISEcoach™ and WISEcode Intelligence™ as the leading AI-powered food answer engine - **Market Education**: Positioning WISEcode as the definitive standard for ultra-processed food classification ## Why Work Here - **Fully Remote Company**: WISEcode is a fully remote company hiring across the U.S., with every role designed to work outside an office as the standard, not an accommodation. Workforce is distributed across the United States, Italy, and Canada. - **Unlimited PTO**: The company trusts employees to manage their own time with an unlimited PTO policy. - **Equity**: Equity is available for eligible roles, giving employees a stake in the company's success. - **Annual Performance Bonus**: Eligible employees receive annual performance bonuses tied to individual and team impact. - **Health & Wellness**: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus round-the-clock telemedicine access for employees and their families. - **Financial Wellness**: 401(k) with immediately vested employer match, plus tax-advantaged savings accounts. - **Mission-Driven Work**: The company is building something that "doesn't exist anywhere else" — employees work on a platform solving the significant problem of food transparency. - **Growth Environment**: With 35% headcount growth and a 200% increase in job postings year-over-year, this is a scaling company with career advancement opportunities. - **Cross-Functional Team**: Current team includes talent from companies like Deloitte, Accenture, EasyPost, and SōRSE Technology, with a mix of senior-level and specialist roles. ## Sources 1. [wisecode.ai/careers](https://wisecode.ai/careers) 2. [jobs.lever.co/wisecode](https://jobs.lever.co/wisecode) 3. [linkedin.com/company/wisecode-llc](https://linkedin.com/company/wisecode-llc) 4. [builtin.com/company/wisecode](https://builtin.com/company/wisecode) 5. [wisecode.ai/insights](https://wisecode.ai/insights/) 6. 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