APAC Data Operations & Intelligence Lead

Dedale Intelligence; Philippines; Remote; PHP 2,200,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Dedale Intelligence is seeking a senior data leader to co-own its data function, heading a 20-person Cebu team and partnering with the Paris Data Engineering Lead. You will set what “excellence in Data & Intelligence” means at Dedale, own the operational backbone behind every dataset we ship, and scale how we produce intelligence as we grow.

You’ll design workflows, quality rubrics, and AI-augmented rituals that let us multiply output without losing rigor.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in research, intelligence, knowledge management, consulting, or content-driven data roles with at least 2 years leading a team.
• Owned a structured intelligence product or dataset that customers paid for and delivered to customer expectations.
• Editorial judgment: identify wrong data quickly and explain why.
• Track record designing taxonomies, ontologies or research frameworks for complex domains.
• Experience scaling team operations: SOPs, quality controls, throughput KPIs, capacity planning.
• Comfortable in technical conversations with engineers; understand trade-offs.
• Hands-on with AI tooling for extraction, classification or summarisation; know limits of AI.
• Able to work across Manila–Paris timezones and remote leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality, accuracy, and scalability of Dedale’s intelligence datasets and research outputs for PE, M&A, and corporate strategy clients.
• Serve as the final quality gate for flagship deliverables, defining standards for completeness, freshness, accuracy, and classification quality.
• Design and evolve research methodologies, taxonomies, and intelligence structures across B2B software domains.
• Build scalable processes to transform unstructured data into structured, queryable intelligence datasets.
• Define sourcing, validation, enrichment, and signal-generation priorities aligned with deal sourcing and decision-making.
• Lead and scale APAC data/research operations, driving execution, cadence, and performance management.
• Drive integration of AI/LLM workflows across research, extraction, classification, summarisation, and quality review.
• Partner with Product, Research, Commercial, and Engineering on roadmap priorities, tooling, and long-term data strategy.
• Co-lead the Data function alongside Data Lead Engineer as Dedale expands across sectors and geographies.

Skills

Leadership

Data products

Editorial judgment

Taxonomies

Team scaling

Technical dialog

AI tooling

English fluency

Tools

SQL familiarity

Job description

Dedale Intelligence is seeking a senior data leader to co-own its data function, heading a 20-person Cebu team and partnering with the Paris Data Engineering Lead. You will set what “excellence in Data & Intelligence” means at Dedale, own the operational backbone behind every dataset we ship, and scale how we produce intelligence as we grow.

You’ll design workflows, quality rubrics, and AI-augmented rituals that let us multiply output without losing rigor.