Business Intelligence Lead

StashAway; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 320,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

ESOPs

Medical coverage

Employee discount

Job summary

StashAway is seeking an AI-augmented Analytics & BI Lead to own and grow the BI team in a hybrid setup. You will manage the backlog, partner with senior stakeholders, and shape an AI-native analytics strategy, including reusable AI assets and governance around AI-generated analyses.

You will mentor analysts, raise the team’s impact, and drive adoption of self-serve analytics while ensuring high standards of rigour and trust across data, metrics, and semantics.

Qualifications

• You have directly managed analysts or data professionals as their people manager, owning their performance, growth, and delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to drive team outcomes: owning a backlog, setting priorities, and delivering on commitments to stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder leadership: partnering with senior business and executive stakeholders, managing expectations, and navigating conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrated AI-native leadership: you have built repeatable, reusable AI assets that a team adopted and driven measurable output from AI.
• Enough hands-on SQL and data-modelling depth to set standards, review work, and lead contested modelling decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead BI team delivery, backlog, and outcomes; translate business needs into prioritised work.
• Mentor and develop team members, with clear career paths from junior analysts to senior ICs.
• Set quality bar for SQL, metrics, models, and analyses; maintain a single source of truth with lineage and governance.
• Increase team autonomy for day-to-day delivery, escalating only strategic calls.
• Define high-value analyses and integrate self-serve tools within BI scope.

Skills

People management

Backlog management

SQL & data modelling

AI-native leadership

Stakeholder management

Fintech domain interest

Mentoring & career development

Tools

dbt

Databricks Genie

Python

Job description

Role Overview

StashAway is one of Southeast Asia's leading digital wealth‑management platforms, and our Business Intelligence team helps turn the company's data into decisions. We're looking for an AI‑augmented Analytics & BI Lead to own and grow that team. Someone already running an analytics or data team who multiplies its impact rather than carrying the work alone. You own the team's backlog and outcomes, set priorities to balance team mandates with day‑to‑day deliverables, partner with senior stakeholders, and own the final call on contested decisions. Your impact is measured by the team's outcomes, not your individual output.

You’ll also propel our AI‑native way of working: our analysts already ship validated analyses through AI‑assisted SQL, agentic workflows, and natural‑language self‑serve. You’ll deepen that practice; building reusable AI assets the team adopts while holding a high bar for rigour & trust, and operate with real autonomy over roadmap, priorities, partnering with a Head of Data and the Data Engineering team to deliver the BI team's mandate.

Key Responsibilities

• BI Leadership, Delivery & People Management
• Own the BI team's backlog and outcomes: translate business needs into prioritised work, hold the team to its commitments, and own the final call on contested decisions.
• Own mentoring and career development for everyone on the team: coaching, candid feedback, growth plans, and clear career paths from junior analysts to senior ICs.
• Set and uphold the quality bar for SQL, metrics, models, and analyses; steward a single source of truth with clear definitions and lineage, and good engineering practice (version control, documentation, testing, runbooks).
• Raise the team's autonomy so it runs day‑to‑day delivery and prioritisation itself, escalating only the strategic calls.
• AI & Analytics Strategy
• Define the high‑value analysis the team invests in versus reactive ad‑hoc work, and shape where self‑serve tooling fits within BI's scope.
• Propel an AI‑native operating model: build reusable AI assets (prompts, agents, pipelines, workflows) that the whole team adopts.
• Govern agentic analytics with evals, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop gates so AI‑generated analyses are validated and trusted before they reach stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of AI‑powered self‑serve analytics (e.g. natural‑language analytics like Databricks Genie) to build company‑wide analytics capability so functions can answer more of their own questions over time.
• Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership
• Partner with leaders across Product, Marketing, Operations, Finance and the executive team (among other departments) to align BI priorities with business strategy.
• Own intake and prioritisation across inbound demand, protecting capacity for high‑value work; manage capacity and present trade‑offs clearly when priorities conflict.
• Publish and maintain a BI roadmap, and turn ambiguous requests into well‑scoped problems.

What We Are Looking For

• Required Experience
• You have directly managed analysts or data professionals as their people manager, owning their performance, growth, and delivery. This is a hard requirement; we are not considering first‑time managers.
• A track record of developing people: mentoring and coaching analysts at different levels, with examples of individuals you have measurably grown or promoted.
• Demonstrated ability to drive team outcomes: owning a backlog, setting priorities, and delivering on commitments to stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder leadership: partnering with senior business and executive stakeholders, managing expectations, and navigating conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrated AI‑native leadership: you have built repeatable, reusable AI assets (prompts, agents, pipelines, workflows) that a team adopted, established a validation and quality bar for AI‑generated analysis before it reached stakeholders, and driven measurable output or cycle‑time gains from AI. Personal tool use alone is not sufficient.
• Enough hands‑on SQL and data‑modelling depth to set standards, review work, and make the call on contested modelling decisions, including leading a team that works with semantic layers and agentic analytics workflows.
• Genuine interest in investing, personal finance, or fintech, and the curiosity to ramp quickly on the domain.
• Preferred Experience
• dbt, semantic layers, and metric governance at scale.
• Has designed and operated agentic or MCP‑backed analytics workflows in production, including evals, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop gates.
• Python for analysis, automation, or tooling.
• Domain experience in investing, wealth management, or fintech.

Role Accountability

• The AI‑augmented Analytics & BI Lead is accountable for performance, quality, and growth of the Business Intelligence team: its backlog and priorities, rigour and impact of its analyses, adoption of AI‑native and self‑serve ways of working, and development of every person on the team.
• This includes direct accountability for the performance, growth, retention, and development of every team member, measured by the team's outcomes and the decisions BI enables, not by individual output.
• In return, the role carries real authority: you own the team's roadmap and priorities, hold development authority for the team, and partner with the Head of Data and the Data Engineering team to deliver the BI team's mandate.

LIFE AT STASH

Your Growth, Rewarded

• Competitive compensation package, including ESOPs (Employee Stock Option Plan) for full‑time employees.
• Comprehensive medical coverage including GP, specialist, hospitalization, surgical, and dental benefits.
• Employee discount on StashAway asset management fees.

Work Your Way

• Flexible hybrid work setup.
• Work‑from‑anywhere policy for up to 8 weeks annually.
• Unlimited annual leave built on trust, flexibility, and accountability.
• Personal work equipment budget to support your ideal workspace.

Never Stop Growing

• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your professional and personal growth.

More Than Just Colleagues

• Quarterly team bonding budget across teams and functions.
• Annual company off‑sites (Q4) focused on connection, collaboration and fun.

THE STASH ADVANTAGE

• One of Asia’s leading digital wealth platforms, managing US$1B+ in AUM with strong regional growth.
• Regional exposure across Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, and MENA markets.
• Lean, high‑impact culture with strong ownership and opportunity to make meaningful business impact.
• Fast‑growing fintech backed by top global investors including Sequoia Capital and Eight Roads.
• Competitive compensation, ESOP opportunities, performance bonuses, and strong career growth potential.