Data Systems Manager

Data Systems Manager

Acumen is looking for a Data Systems Manager with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience to build and strengthen our data systems,  reporting, and enabling our teams to make data-driven decisions. The role combines technical leadership with team enablement — overseeing architecture, integrations, data governance, and reporting. It also includes building and training a globally distributed data operations team to foster long-term adoption and data excellence. This role is based anywhere in Colombia, with some travel to our office in Bogotá as required. 

 

Anywhere in Colombia 

JD in Spanish here. Please send the application in English.

About Acumen

Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. Through our investment adviser Acumen Capital Partners, we are responsible for $166 million in assets under management via our returnable pooled investment funds, which have impacted 238 million lives and offset 48 million metric tons of CO2. To learn more visit acumen.org.

About Acumen Academy

Acumen Academy supports a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the character and competence to solve problems of poverty and build a world based on dignity. With over 2000 Foundry members, 1.3M course sign-ups, and 71 Million lives impacted, the Acumen Academy community represents a new generation of social innovators and leaders committed to solving problems of poverty. 

About the role

This Data & Systems Manager role is more than a technical position—it is an opportunity to contribute directly to meaningful, systemic change. By strengthening our data systems and building the capacity of colleagues across our global teams , you will help ensure that our offerings are effective, accountable, and responsive to the people and communities we serve. This role will not focus on data systems like finance, HR, grant management etc. It is specific to impact and operational data. 

This role reports to the Associate Director for Acumen Academy and works closely with the Associate Director of Impact and colleagues across multiple regions and time zones. The position is remote-first, with occasional in-person visits to the Bogotá office for collaboration, planning, or key moments of connection. We operate in a hybrid and flexible work environment, where success is measured by outcomes rather than fixed hours, and where trust, autonomy, and clear communication are core to how we work together globally.

You will lead the evolution of our data and reporting ecosystem (Salesforce, Form Assembly, SM Apply, Airtable etc.) while empowering a distributed, global team to confidently use data in their daily work. This role blends technical leadership, project management, internal stakeholder engagement, and people development, and offers the chance to see how your work supports real-world impact at scale.

If you are motivated by purpose, collaboration, and using technology to advance social good, this role offers a meaningful way to align your skills with a mission to change lives.

What You’ll Do 

Systems Architecture & Implementation

• Lead and implement the design and evolution of our global data management architecture, ensuring alignment with operational and impact repor