Head of Analytics & AI Strategy (Fintech)

Cleo; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Mental health support

Sabbatical after four years

Learning platform

Pension

Location-specific leave

Job summary

Cleo is seeking a senior analytics leader to own the analytics strategy and operating model across Cleo's Financial Services Product pillars. You will lead the analytics leadership layer (L4/L5 managers and senior ICs), setting standards for metrics, experimentation, and reporting across pillars.

You will partner with Product, Credit, Engineering, Commercial, and ML to shape roadmaps and provide senior leadership with clear visibility on what drives key metrics.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data analytics, data science, BI engineering, or analytics engineering, ideally in a high-growth, product-led company.
• Proven management experience of at least 4+ ICs.
• Deep experimentation expertise beyond stat-sig testing - fixing structural problems in a testing programme: bucketing, conflicts/collisions, sizing, priors, governance.
• A builder's instinct: bias for automation, ownership, and shipping.
• Ability to set standards and an operating model that teams actually adopt, measurably improving delivery beyond a single team.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics strategy and operating model across Financial Services Product pillars - coherent measurement, experimentation, and insight cadence mapped to company priorities.
• Lead and develop the analytics leadership layer (L4/L5 managers and senior ICs), building a strong bench, growth plans, and succession so the function doesn't rely on any single person.
• Drive the experimentation programme as a product - fixing structural issues like single source of truth, standard bucketing, automated conflict detection, sizing and priors - and raise the bar on rigour across squads.
• Improve observability of live user flows and metric movements, partnering with Engineering on the event framework and product-health reporting.
• Champion responsible use of agentic AI as a force multiplier for analytics, with sensible guardrails.

Skills

Data analytics

Data science

BI engineering

Analytics engineering

Experimentation

People management

Product metrics

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Job description

Cleo is seeking a senior analytics leader to own the analytics strategy and operating model across Cleo's Financial Services Product pillars. You will lead the analytics leadership layer (L4/L5 managers and senior ICs), setting standards for metrics, experimentation, and reporting across pillars.

You will partner with Product, Credit, Engineering, Commercial, and ML to shape roadmaps and provide senior leadership with clear visibility on what drives key metrics.