Head of Data Operations & Intelligence

Dedale Intelligence; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Dedale Intelligence is seeking a senior leader to co-own the data function, overseeing a 20-person team in Cebu. This role involves ensuring data quality, designing research methodologies, and integrating AI tools into operations. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in research or data roles, including leadership responsibilities. A passion for technology and investment is essential, along with the ability to work across time zones from Manila to Paris.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in research or data roles with 2 years in a leadership position.
• Experience delivering an intelligence product or dataset.
• Strong editorial judgment and quality control skills.
• Experience in managing team operations and KPIs.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools and data extraction.

Responsibilities

• Lead the data production team and ensure data quality.
• Design research methodologies and frameworks for data.
• Define and monitor operational KPIs for data management.
• Drive integration of AI workflows in data operations.
• Collaborate with Product, Research, and Engineering teams.

Skills

Leadership

Research methodologies

Data analysis

Team management

AI tools

Editorial judgment

Taxonomies design

Technical communication

Fluent English

Job description

About Dedale

Dedale is the differentiating source of strategic intelligence in the technology space. With a unique team of over 100 full-time research analysts & planners, Dedale leverages a network of over 10,000 market professionals to deliver on‑ground strategic intelligence to investors and corporates, with a core focus around North America and Europe.

Our Culture

Dedale gathers a group of highly talented international individuals (incl. US, Chinese, Filipino, French, Moroccan, Latvian, Lebanese nationalities among others). The leadership team is composed of experienced investment professionals & management consultants (ex‑McKinsey, BCG consultants & managers). Our advisory board is extremely high profile, including some of the most successful investors worldwide (incl. Managing Partners of the largest PE and Growth Equity funds, and Tech unicorn entrepreneurs). We seek to develop a dream team of outstanding investment analysts with strong academic and professional achievements and a passion for investing and technology.

Your Role

A senior leader to co‑own Dedale's data function — leading our 20‑person data production team in Cebu and partnering with our Data Engineering Lead in Paris. Our data is frontline and paramount to our core Product. You'll 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 set the standard across our flagship intelligence products:

• Deep company profiles — anchored in expert interviews — on B2B software and tech‑enabled services companies
• Financials, ownership, deals and team analytics on companies in our coverage
• Proprietary benchmarks built from structured customer and alumni data points
• Open‑source and research team production enrichment streams (web, LinkedIn, public sources, expert interviews, formal desk research…) that feed all of the above

You also lead and scale the Cebu‑based team that produces this intelligence. You design the workflows, quality rubrics and AI‑augmented rituals that let us multiply output without losing rigor. This role is hands‑on with the content: you read the data, challenge it, redesign the frameworks behind it — and own the teams that ship it.

Reports to the CPO (Paris), with a local dotted line to our Head of APAC (Cebu). Co‑leads Data with our Data Engineering Lead (Paris). Direct path toward VP Data Operations.

Your Responsibility

• Own the quality, accuracy, and scalability of Dedale’s intelligence datasets, company profiles, and research outputs for PE, M&A, and corporate strategy clients
• Serve as the final quality gate for flagship deliverables, defining and monitoring standards for completeness, freshness, accuracy, and classification quality
• Design and evolve research methodologies, interview frameworks, taxonomies, and intelligence structures across B2B software and tech‑enabled services
• Build scalable processes to transform unstructured research, interview, and market data into structured, queryable intelligence datasets
• Define sourcing, validation, enrichment, and signal‑generation priorities aligned with deal sourcing, diligence, and strategic decision‑making use cases
• Lead and scale an APAC‑based data and research operations team, driving execution, operational cadence, and performance management
• Own operational KPIs including throughput, SLA adherence, audit quality, dataset freshness, and customer‑reported issues
• Drive the effective integration of AI/LLM workflows across research, extraction, classification, summarisation, and quality review processes
• Partner closely with Product, Research, Commercial, and Engineering teams on roadmap priorities, tooling, hiring, and long‑term data strategy
• Co‑lead the Data function alongside the Data Lead Engineer as Dedale expands across sectors and geographies

Your Qualifications

Across the firm, we attract motivated, intellectually curious, and analytically rigorous young professionals who are passionate about learning and creating impact. It's highly likely you'll move forward in the process if:

• 5+ years in research, intelligence, knowledge management, consulting, or content‑driven data roles — with at least 2 years leading a team
• You've owned a structured intelligence product or dataset that customers actually paid for — and you've shipped it to the bar your customers demanded
• Editorial judgment you can demonstrate — you read 200 rows of a dataset and instantly spot the 20 that are wrong, and you can 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 — you don't need to write SQL, but you can sit with engineers, weigh trade‑offs and shape what gets built
• Hands‑on with modern AI tooling: you've used LLMs to extract, classify or summarise data, and you know where they're trustworthy and where they aren't
• Comfortable working across Manila–Paris timezones and as part of a remote co‑leadership
• Fluent English

Cherry on the Cake!

• You like collaborating as a team and delivering your best as an individual
• You are passionate about technology, innovation, and investment

Process

• Introductory call
• Pre‑case Interview
• Case Study
• Final interview with CEO, PH Director and coffee chat