Chief Data Officer

Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid; expect to meet once per quarter in person in the Oakland office and more frequently depending on need)

Reports to: CEO

Travel: This hybrid position will require regular travel to our headquarters in Oakland, CA.

Salary Range:$190,000 – $225,000 with generous benefits and performance bonus

• 20 Paid Holidays
• 20 PTO / Sick days
• Employer paid benefits (dental, medical, vision)
• 403B Retirement match
• FSA
• Annual Performance bonus

PCV is one of the country’s first impact investing funds, and a nonprofit community development investor that supports small business entrepreneurs and their communities to build economic mobility through the power of inclusive entrepreneurship and a good quality job. We work side-by-side with small business leaders through our unique integrated model: combining impact-first Restorative Capital and Pro Bono Business Advising with our Good Jobs Innovation Lab that propels thriving communities with equitable jobs, climate outcomes, uplifts and amplifies their voices and needs through research and policy advocacy.

In 2025, PCV launched the fields’ first ethical AI policy and initiative, building the CDFI industry’s first predictive impact underwriting model to advance inclusive entrepreneurship across the U.S. and unlock economic mobility, uplift more worker voices into shaping good jobs outcomes in small businesses.

Are you a driven data science and analytics leader who is passionate about building a more equitable society and has experience in building high-performing data infrastructure, teams, and culture? If so, please consider joining Pacific Community Ventures as our Chief Data Officer. As a mission-driven lender, we invest in diverse small businesses across the state of California to help them grow and strengthen their practices.

You’ll work to take our renowned data practices to the next level, setting new standards in the impact investing, community development financial institution (CDFI) ecosystem for machine learning and artificial intelligence innovations to expand access to capital, advising, and good jobs in underestimated communities. This role will lead the new Data and AI Hub that we have built inside PCV, and for shared services for the social impact field, from predictive impact investing, to impact measurement, to voice AI, data governance, and more.

It will also lead our Good Jobs Lab, overseeing our integrated model combining affordable capital with mentorship to ensure that we are seeing financial health and wealth building outcomes with our core good jobs employers in the portfolio, and making data-driven recommendations to our program teams on what more can be done to ensure more entrepreneurs stay on these journeys.

This position will report to the Chief Executive Officer. This is a wonderful opportunity for an experienced data and analytics leader to advance PCV’s leadership, culture to fully support an ambitious 10-year vision to rapidly expand affordable access to financial services, mentorship, and financial health outcomes in underserved communities, powered by responsible technology and AI, build upon our lead in impact and technical innovation.

We’re a dynamic nonprofit organization with an industry leading data analytics and ethical AI team and approach, bringing predictive impact insights into community and small business lending to advance inclusive entrepreneurship across the U.S. PCV has a growing Loan Fund that supports more and more small businesses with loans and pro bono mentoring, creating good jobs in low-and-moderate income communities. With our expansion, we are adding systems, processes, and software to reach entrepreneurs more effectively, and manage the outcomes and impact of our work more efficiently.

You will be a dedicated member of our Executive team, able to contribute to PCV’s long-term strategic vision and day-to-day operational activities equally well. You bring a strong track record of success in the areas of leadership, program management, analytical, technical, writing, and interpersonal skills. You are self-directed, quickly create clarity out of ambiguity,…