[Hiring] Senior Operations Data Analyst @KoBold Metals

Role Description

Senior individual contributor reporting to the Head of Operations Data, coordinating day to day with the broader team and functional stakeholders. Owns systems end to end — data model, ETL, application, and stakeholder relationships — with minimal oversight from day one, and mentors junior analysts. Approximate initial allocation:

• 45% Build & integration
  • New data models, ETL/API integrations, and app support (Foundry et al.)
• 25% Platform maintenance & data quality
  • OPSDB stewardship, sync reliability, alerting, production support
• 15% Governance & technical debt
  • RBAC, scoped roles, dbt semantic layer, documentation
• 15% Mingomba support & cross-functional mentorship
  • Commitments register, peer mentorship and skill growth, coordination with Mingomba functional growth like Procurement, Inventory

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data operations owning production systems independently
• Strong SQL and data modeling (PostgreSQL)
• Proven ETL and API integration
• Experience and comfort with AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)
• Dbt, cloud tooling (AWS/S3), finance-systems (NetSuite/Tipalti), or geospatial data a plus
• Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain
• Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who are not technical
• Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities
• Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company
• A valid passport and willingness to travel to observe our work at Mingomba or at an exploration site around the world

Requirements

• Light travel is required when necessary

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $100,000 to $125,000 plus equity and benefits including 401k matching

Company Description

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. Since founding in 2018, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer.

• KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered
• KoBold has a portfolio of more than 80 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery
• KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments, technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments, and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi