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Chief Data Officer (CDO) jobs: 86 open roles, pay, industries and skills

86 open Chief Data Officer jobs (CDO), taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Head of Data. Listings that state pay show a median of $200,000 a year.

The market for Chief Data Officer work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Chief Data Officer jobs
86

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$200,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
New York (27)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Financial Services & Banking (31%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

What a CDO does

C-suite role in Data & Analytics.

The company’s data: where it lives, who can use it, its quality, and the analytics and AI work built on it.

Usually reports to the CEO, CIO or CTO.

Other ways this role is written

  • CDO
  • Chief Data Officer
  • Chief Analytics Officer
  • Chief Data and Analytics Officer
  • Head of Data

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Chief Data Officer jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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CDO salary

From 15 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$186,000
Median
$200,000
Upper quarter
$244,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for CDO jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where CDO jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills CDO jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 27 Chief Data Officer listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in CDO listings

  1. 1. machine learning33%
  2. 2. snowflake33%
  3. 3. sql26%
  4. 4. python26%
  5. 5. databricks22%
  6. 6. audit15%
  7. 7. azure15%
  8. 8. aws15%
  9. 9. onboarding15%
  10. 10. stakeholder management11%

Across all Data & Analytics openings

  1. 1. python11%
  2. 2. sql11%
  3. 3. machine learning8%
  4. 4. aws5%
  5. 5. azure4%
  6. 6. etl3%
  7. 7. agile3%
  8. 8. databricks3%
  9. 9. excel3%
  10. 10. snowflake3%

AI skills for CDO jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

23% of Data & Analytics openings ask for a specific AI skill. There are too few Chief Data Officer listings read in full to give a figure for this role alone.

Do AI skills change chief data officer pay?

For Data & Analytics roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for chief data officer alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Data & Analytics listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +47.9% (about $64.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$207,000
median, from 2,388 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$137,500
median, from 339 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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The Data & Analytics ladder

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Employers hiring for CDO roles

  • JPMorgan Chase 7
  • Confidential 3
  • Omnicom Media 3
  • Harnham 2
  • Kroll Bond Rating Agency 2
  • Brains Workgroup 2
  • Socure 2
  • Burq 1
  • WeVote 1
  • Starr Services 1
  • Johns Hopkins University APL 1
  • District of Columbia Government 1

CDO questions

What does a CDO do?
The company’s data: where it lives, who can use it, its quality, and the analytics and AI work built on it. Usually reports to the CEO, CIO or CTO.
What does CDO stand for?
CDO stands for Chief Data Officer. The same job is also written Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Head of Data.
How many CDO jobs are open?
86 verified open Chief Data Officer jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a CDO make?
Among 15 open Chief Data Officer listings that state pay, the median is $200,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $186,000 and $244,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are CDO jobs?
New York (27), California (17), Ohio (5), Illinois (4) have the most open Chief Data Officer listings.
Which industries hire for CDO roles?
Financial Services & Banking (31%), Technology & Software (27%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (7%), Pharmaceuticals & Biotech (7%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do CDO jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Chief Data Officer listings are machine learning, snowflake, sql, python, databricks.

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