Head of Data and Analytics

Bellroy; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global design company in Melbourne seeks a data leader to shape strategic questions and embed insights in decision-making processes. This role requires strong relationships, analytical skills, and hands-on experience with data infrastructure. We're looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and fosters a culture of empowerment within the team.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Diverse workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience with building and maintaining scalable data pipelines.
• Hands-on with Python or R for statistical modeling.
• Ability to translate complex analyses into clear narratives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with department leaders to drive data-driven decisions.
• Validate hypotheses and review analytical models.
• Shape strategic direction and refine complex data models.

Skills

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Data pipeline management

SQL

Python

Statistical modeling

Commercial mindset

Project management

Tools

Looker

Tableau

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Job description

At Bellroy, data isn’t an afterthought, it’s a strategic lever, backed by leadership and embedded into decision-making at every level. As we grow, we're tackling bigger, more complex questions, and we're ready for a data leader who wants to do more than report on the past. You’ll help shape what questions we ask, how we answer them, and how we embed that insight into the core of our business. If you’re looking for autonomy, real impact, and the chance to influence both our systems and our strategy, this could be your next role.

You won't inherit a data wasteland. Our modern stack (Kafka, AWS/GCP, Python, R) is solid, and your team of seven isn't starting from scratch. What we need isn’t someone to fix broken foundations, but a leader who can elevate how we use data to answer increasingly complex questions as we grow. You'll collaborate with department leaders who expect decisions to be backed by evidence, not opinion - they depend on it to shape strategy and guide decisions that drive growth.

This isn’t a role for someone who just directs traffic. You’ll be hands-on, validating hypotheses, reviewing analytical models for rigour and relevance and designing frameworks that guide how we approach problems and decision-making. If you’re not comfortable switching from shaping strategic direction with senior management to refining a complex data model later that day, this might not be the right fit. But if you are - that’s where the magic happens.

YOU COULD BE THE ONE IF YOU:

• Build strong, trusting relationships with your team and take pride in nurturing a culture where people feel supported, challenged, and empowered to do their best work.
• Bring sharp commercial instincts and a deep understanding of the business levers - balancing analytical rigour with what truly drives impact
• Have relevant experience building and maintaining scalable data pipelines
• Understand the modern data stack, ideally with exposure to dbt, Colab/Jupyter
• Are skilled in SQL, and have used BI tools like Looker or Tableau
• Have hands-on experience with Python or R, applying them to statistical modelling, data processing, and experimentation workflows
• Have led multidisciplinary data teams and know how to balance strategic vision with execution to drive results
• Can translate complex analysis into clear narratives that inspire confident decisions
• Thrive in ambiguity, chase down truths in messy datasets, and bring structure where needed
• Move beyond building dashboards, by understanding the underlying questions, shaping the data to surface meaningful insights, identifying areas worth deeper exploration, and making commercially sound recommendations that align with team needs.

WE’D BE EXCITED IF YOU HAVE:

• Familiarity with privacy rules and the necessary data governance processes to comply with them
• Used Bayesian methods to improve predictions, update beliefs with new data, and make decisions under uncertainty
• A background in project management (or a similarly pragmatic approach) that helps you deliver valuable data products on time and with clear purpose.

IF YOU WERE HERE LAST WEEK, YOU MIGHT HAVE:

• Coached an analyst through the results of an experiment that didn’t go to plan, helping them uncover insights and framing the story in a way that helped the product team shift direction with confidence
• Jumped into a working session with our data scientists to review a predictive model for customer engagement, helping refine the feature set and aligning on how to get it into production with minimal friction
• Collaborated with a marketing lead to improve our customer segmentation models to better personalise campaigns and boost engagement
• Reviewed the analytics team’s roadmap and reshuffled priorities to make space for time sensitive product launch questions, walking them through how to assess opportunity cost and make trade offs with stakeholders
• Joined a cross functional review and noticed that our Operations team were using outdated assumptions in a forecast. You made time to plan how we could better make high quality forecasts available to our teams, wherever they needed them (spreadsheets, notebooks, SQL or elsewhere)
• Joined a cross functional steering team to advise senior stakeholders on tariff impacts - modelling scenarios, rapidly assessing business impacts and identifying the pricing strategy that struck the right balance between revenue protection and commercial resilience.

LOCATION AND HOURS

This is a full-time role based in our Melbourne HQ office. We trust our team to manage their time wisely, and we offer flexibility where it matters, because balance makes for better thinking.

WHY WORK FOR BELLROY?

At Bellroy, it takes a wonderfully diverse crew to make everything tick. We’re a close-knit group of thinkers and makers from over 25 different countries, each contributing unique skills to achieve our shared vision. We believe that embracing diverse backgrounds and perspectives is key to staying agile and resilient. So, even if your experience isn’t an exact match, but you feel you have something special to contribute, we’d love to hear from you.

Bellroy is committed to making our hiring process accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodations at any stage—whether it’s applying, interviewing, completing pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the selection process—please contact us at [e-mail].