Remote Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO Track)

Jobgether; Finland; Remote; EUR 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work: Fully remote, anywhere

Competitive compensation discussed in招

Annual leave: 28 days

Wellness days: 7 days

Family support: childcare/education

Referral bonuses: up to $5,000

Professional development: 50% reimburs

Job summary

Jobgether in Finland is seeking a Deputy Chief Data Officer to lead strategic data initiatives and oversee a global analytics function within a product-driven tech organization. As second-in-command to the CDO, you will drive data engineering, ML projects, UX research, and experimentation while aligning with senior executives.

You will manage multiple teams, optimize resources, and establish governance, KPIs, and ROI-driven metrics to ensure scalable, reliable data platforms and measurable

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional experience in data, analytics, or machine learning within product-focused technology companies.
• At least 4 years of leadership experience managing specialists, managers, and team leads.
• Experience as Chief Data Officer, Deputy CDO, Head of Data, or Head of Analytics is highly desirable.
• Ambition to grow into a CDO role with strategic and hands-on execution.
• Broad understanding of data and research functions including product/marketing analytics, A/B testing, experimentation, ML lifecycles, data platforms, data quality, SLAs, BI, self-service analytics, and unit economics.
• Deep practical expertise in at least one major data domain with ability to coordinate across the wider data ecosystem.
• Proven track record delivering complex cross-functional data and ML initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong operational management skills: project planning, work decomposition, resource allocation, backlog prioritization, risk management.
• Business-oriented mindset with ability to evaluate initiatives through financial metrics, ROI, and business impact.
• Understanding of trade-offs between delivery speed, quality, business value, and operational risk.
• Experience working with and influencing C-level executives; strong analytical reasoning and persuasive communication.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without formal authority and build trust through expertise.
• Highly organized, systematic, disciplined, and persistent in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to lead distributed multidisciplinary teams.
• Fluent in both Russian and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives from business case development through implementation and measurable impact.
• Collaborate with C-level executives to align priorities, negotiate resources and timelines.
• Oversee data and analytics initiatives including data platform development, BigQuery migration, ML projects, experimentation, UX research, and data quality improvements.
• Identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks; clarify scope, assign ownership, and define next steps.
• Manage capacity, resources, and backlogs across multiple teams; reassess or discontinue underperforming projects.
• Establish and maintain the operating framework for the Research Center with reviews and dashboards.
• Translate strategic initiatives into measurable ROI and business outcomes.
• Support and strengthen team leads across Product Analytics, Data Engineering, ML, and UX Research.
• Oversee operational health: data freshness, platform uptime, ML infra stability, delivery predictability, experimentation throughput.
• Act as trusted partner and successor to the CDO when required.

Skills

Data leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

ML lifecycles

A/B testing

Team leadership

Operational management

Financial insights

C-level communication

Stakeholder influence

Russian language

English language

Tools

BigQuery

Job description

Jobgether in Finland is seeking a Deputy Chief Data Officer to lead strategic data initiatives and oversee a global analytics function within a product-driven tech organization. As second-in-command to the CDO, you will drive data engineering, ML projects, UX research, and experimentation while aligning with senior executives.

You will manage multiple teams, optimize resources, and establish governance, KPIs, and ROI-driven metrics to ensure scalable, reliable data platforms and measurable