Data Strategy Lead

Withintelligence; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Data Strategy Lead to drive innovation and quality in data offerings across alternative and private markets. In this pivotal role, you will shape the product data strategy, working closely with product teams to ensure data is central to all operations. Your expertise in alternative assets and strong strategic thinking will be key in identifying new data sources and enhancing product offerings. This is a unique opportunity to lead data initiatives in a collaborative environment, influencing cross-functional teams and contributing to the growth of a data-driven business. If you're passionate about data and innovation, this role is for you!

Qualifications

• Expertise in alternative assets and private markets is essential.
• Prior experience in senior data or product management roles required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy for product innovation.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with data strategy.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Data Analytics

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Management

Database Querying

Tools

JIRA

Job description

With Intelligence is a successful provider of investment intelligence for allocating decisions, fund-raising, and business development for the alternative asset management industry. Our global team includes data scientists, analysts, reporters and journalists, technologists, developers, and industry experts – all obsessed with revealing the bigger picture of the asset management industry to support improving capital allocation. Our unique data, agile workflow platform, and top-tier events connect investors and managers to raise and allocate assets effectively.

The company has approximately 550 employees located in offices in the UK, US, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Singapore. Having recently been acquired by a successful technology investor, we are now looking to take the business forward and further evolve as a data and analytics product-led business.

The Role

We're excited to announce an opportunity to join our team at With Intelligence as Data Strategy Lead. As the Data Strategy Lead, you will be at the forefront of supporting our data-driven strategy, driving innovation, depth, and quality to shape our products and customer offerings across alternative and private markets.

In this role, you will own and execute the product data strategy, identifying and prioritising data sets and focus areas that drive growth and differentiation. This is a market and client-focused role where you will work closely with Product Strategy to develop and deepen our data offering; you will evaluate and prioritise data sets to deliver best-in-class data. You will be responsible for collaborating and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure data is at the centre of our strategy and that our operations teams are delivering on the data strategy.

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing a comprehensive data strategy to help drive product improvements and innovation, focused on differentiation and depth.
• Working closely with Product Strategy and Product Owners to ensure data requirements are captured and align with our product data strategy (workshops, PRDs, and documentation in JIRA via epics).
• Defining data coverage, quality, and timeliness KPIs for data sets, in collaboration with Data Operations.
• Working with Data Operations to prioritise and support incoming data initiatives and ensure alignment with product strategy roadmap and prioritisation.
• Identifying and evaluating new data sources and technologies to enhance data offering, including new data sets and coverage areas.
• Being the inspiration between Data, Product, and Technology to ensure all streams are collaborating and coordinating towards consistent end goals.
• Working with data science to uncover new data points and/or data insights.
• Responsible for our data integrity, privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Stakeholder management with the business/senior stakeholders, being the champion for product data.
• The role will initially be a hands-on contributor role; however, there is scope to build and guide a small team of product data experts, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

Minimum Requirements

• Subject matter expert in the alternative assets space, including private markets.
• Prior experience in a senior role within data or product management.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, commercial awareness, and focus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for effectively conveying complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of data analytics techniques and tools.
• Experience in database querying and modelling is desirable.