Head of Data

Calo; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Calo is seeking a Head of Data in Dubai to lead a growing data team and translate data into business impact. You will set the vision, build scalable data foundations, and partner with product, growth, engineering and operations.

This leadership role blends product and commercial exposure to drive growth and smarter decisions. Ideal candidates have experience leading analytics, data science and data engineering teams, excellent communication with executives, and a hands-on approach to data

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional data teams across analytics, data science, and data engineering.
• Strong communication with product growth and executive teams.
• Solid grasp of data fundamentals (SQL, data modeling, metrics definitions).
• Ability to scale data processes and systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Calo's data strategy across all business lines.
• Manage a cross-functional team of analysts, scientists and engineers.
• Build and scale data processes, infrastructure and tooling.
• Partner with product and business teams to drive growth, efficiency and better decisions.
• Establish clear, consistent metrics and support experimentation.
• Champion a data-driven culture and raise data fluency across the company.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data analytics

Data engineering

SQL proficiency

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Looker

Job description

About Calo
Calo provides personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms built with love by chefs nutritionists and software engineers.

Launched in Bahrain in 2019 we have since expanded to 5 countries in the region delivered millions of meals to our customers and launched our very own Grab & Go Cafe concepts.

We're on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We think this is one of the most important problems to tackle in our world today. We have global ambitions - no small thinking here.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Head of Data to lead our growing data team and turn data into a key driver of business impact. Youll set the vision build scalable foundations and work closely with teams across product growth engineering and operations. This is a leadership role with deep product and commercial exposure.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and lead Calos data strategy across all business lines
• Manage a cross-functional team of analysts scientists and engineers
• Build and scale data processes infrastructure and tooling.
• Partner with product and business teams to drive growth efficiency and better decisions
• Establish clear consistent metrics and support experimentation
• Champion a data-driven culture and raise data fluency across the company

What Were Looking For

• Experience leading cross-functional data teams across analytics data science and data engineering.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence product growth and executive teams
• Solid grasp of data fundamentals (SQL data modeling metric definitions even if not hands-on daily)
• Strong planning and process mindset; able to scale systems not just outputs
• Commercially awareunderstands how data impacts GTM retention and unit economics
• Familiarity with modern data tools like mixpanel metabase dbt Airflow Snowflake Looker

Bonus If You Have

• Experience in high-growth startups or scaling early-stage data functions
• Background in top consumer tech products
• A personal passion for food health or wellness

Required Experience:

Director