Global Head of Data Operations & Intelligence

Dedale Intelligence; Metro Manila; Remote; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Dedale Intelligence in the Philippines seeks a senior leader to co‑own the data function, guiding a 20‑person team in Cebu and collaborating with Paris-based data engineering. You will define what excellence in data and intelligence means, and own the backbone behind every dataset we ship to investors and strategists.

You’ll design workflows, rubrics and AI‑augmented rituals to multiply output while maintaining rigor.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in research, intelligence, knowledge management, consulting, or content‑driven data roles, with at least 2 years leading a team.
• Structured intelligence product or dataset shipped to customers with measurable quality.
• Strong editorial judgment to spot data issues and explain why.
• Experience designing taxonomies, ontologies or research frameworks for complex domains.
• Experience scaling team operations with SOPs, quality controls, and KPIs.
• Comfortable in technical conversations with engineers; able to weigh trade-offs.
• Hands-on with AI tools for extraction, classification or summarisation and aware of limitations.
• Willing to collaborate across Manila‑Paris time zones in a remote leadership model.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• 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 data into structured, queryable intelligence datasets.
• Define sourcing, validation, enrichment, and signal-generation priorities aligned with use cases.
• Lead and scale an APAC-based data and research operations team, driving execution and performance management.
• Own operational KPIs including throughput, SLA adherence, audit quality, dataset freshness, and customer-reported issues.
• Drive AI/LLM workflow integration across research, extraction, classification, summarisation, and quality review processes.
• Partner with Product, Research, Commercial, and Engineering 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.

Skills

Leadership

Research data

Editorial judgment

Taxonomies

AI tooling

Cross-timezone work

Fluent English

Tools

LLM tooling

SQL awareness

Job description

Dedale Intelligence in the Philippines seeks a senior leader to co‑own the data function, guiding a 20‑person team in Cebu and collaborating with Paris-based data engineering. You will define what excellence in data and intelligence means, and own the backbone behind every dataset we ship to investors and strategists.

You’ll design workflows, rubrics and AI‑augmented rituals to multiply output while maintaining rigor.