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Director, Data & Product Engineering

Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development · Community Improvement & Capacity Building · $71.1M budget · 167 staff · Since 1993

Why Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development

FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filed

Provides affordable capital, financial solutions, and policy advocacy to underserved entrepreneurs, with a focus on low-income individuals, people of color, and women.

  • Small business lending program - the organization makes loans to small businesses that lack access to affordable credit from traditional sources. Since inception, the organization has made over 35,380 loans totaling $1,066 million to small businesses whose owners are primarily…$48M spent in FY2024
  • New market tax credits program - in 2003, the organization was certified by the u.s. Department of treasury Community Development financial institution Fund ("cdfi Fund") as a Community Development entity ("cde") under its new market tax credit (''nmtc") program. As…$979K spent in FY2024
  • Policy program: Accion Opportunity Fund conducts program evaluation and research and advocates for federal, state and local public policies that will benefit our mission and the working families that our programs serve.$522K spent in FY2024

Before you apply

FY2023 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the org
Pays its leaders
$260K–$598K
12 officers reported
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt VII · Sec A
Budget
$55.5M
spent in FY2023
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 18
Staff
167
employees
20 volunteers
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 5–6
Spent on programs
82%
of spending
Looks good: 82% of spending went to programs; 75% or more.
Pt IX · Ln 25 · col B
Surplus or deficit
−25%
of revenue, FY2023
Concern: revenue was below expenses in the latest filing.
Pt I · Ln 19
Cash reserves
13 mo
of spending, in cash and securities
Looks good: 12.9 months of spending in cash; 3 or more.
Pt X · Ln 1–2 · Pt I · Ln 18
Latest return
FY2023
latest Form 990
Fine: the latest return is for FY2023, 3 tax years back; within 3 tax years.
IRS e-file
IRS status
501(c)(3)
tax-exempt since 2000
Looks good: listed by the IRS.
IRS BMF
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About the role

The org's own posting, as written

Hybrid, LA area, Bay Area, NYC metro, and South Florida THE ORGANIZATION Accion Opportunity Fund (AOF) is a leading Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to providing underserved small business owners with access to capital, networks, and coaching. For over 30 years, AOF has helped small business owners create jobs, build wealth, and strengthen communities by providing responsible financing and business support services. Since our founding, we have deployed more than $1 billion in financing and have served more than 4 million entrepreneurs through educational resources and business support programs.

The majority of our clients come from historically underserved communities where access to traditional financing remains limited. As AOF continues its mission of expanding financial inclusion, we are building a scalable, sustainable financial institution that combines mission impact with strong financial performance. Our strategic vision includes expanding our lending capabilities, strengthening enterprise risk management, and preparing for future growth across additional financial products, including Credit Union services.

For more information about us, visit https://aofund.org/ ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Director of Data and Product Engineering to build and run the systems behind our data and analytics, our AI deployment, and the products our small business owners rely on. This is a hands-on, highly technical role. You will join as an individual contributor on a small engineering team, writing code, designing pipelines, and shipping systems yourself. You have managed engineers before, and we expect you to grow into leading a team here as our roadmap expands, but your first year is about building rather than staffing.

We have never had a dedicated data engineering leader, and that is the gap we most need you to fill. You will own the data platform: the infrastructure, ingestion, orchestration, and tooling that our analytics and reporting depend on, along with the internal and eventually external data and AI products we build on top of it. You will spend the balance of your time on product engineering, for both customer-facing and internal products, across AOFCD and AOFCU. The blend of technical execution, business understanding, and communication is what makes this role work.

In a single day you might go from coding with Claude Code (including writing the evals that tell you whether the output is any good) to reviewing AWS infrastructure changes to presenting a build-versus-buy recommendation to the executive team. You will report to the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer (CTSO). HOW THIS ROLE FITS AOF has multiple data-focused teams across the organization, and they depend on you. Credit owns the credit models, policies, and related analytics spanning from up-front credit decisioning to analysis and management of the credit portfolio. Finance and Accounting synthesize all levels of reporting using a combination of data…

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About Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development

From its Form 990

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