Head of Data & Analytics Strategy

Gearset Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long Term Incentive Plan

Free lunch in the office

25 days holiday + bank holidays (extra

Company Pension Plan

Bupa health care and dental

Enhanced family leave

Bupa Menopause Plan

Life Insurance & critical illness

Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Gearset Limited is seeking a Head of Data to own the data strategy and lead a multi-disciplinary team across analytics, data engineering, and data science. You will translate product telemetry and customer data into actionable insights, build self-serve analytics, and embed data into strategic decisions across the business.

You will drive data governance, modern data tooling, and a culture of responsible data usage, while collaborating with GTM Strategy & Operations to align metrics and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing multi-disciplinary data teams and delivering a company-wide data roadmap with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience defining a Data team's approach to AI/ML-driven analytics, including evaluating where LLMs and generative AI tooling can improve data workflows or self-serve analytics.
• Deep expertise in SQL and data modelling, coupled with a strong grasp of software engineering principles applied to data (version control, automated testing, CI/CD).
• Strong background working with cloud analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Line manage and develop a multi-disciplinary data team spanning analytics, analytics engineering and data engineering.
• Own the data strategy and roadmap, prioritising short and long-term objectives in partnership with stakeholders across the business.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to embed analytics into strategic decisions and provide self-serve tooling and support.
• Guide the future of the data platform, ensuring ingestion of data to provide trusted, reusable foundations for company-wide reporting.
• Develop a data community and deliver training that teaches responsible use of data.
• Set and hold team to software engineering best practices for governing the data platform (version control, automated testing, CI/CD).
• Lead objective setting and prioritisation for the data function, and report progress against key business metrics to GTM leadership.
• Own data tooling budgets and vendor selection processes.
• Work with Legal and Compliance to ensure the data platform and its use meet data protection obligations (UK GDPR).

Skills

Data team leadership

AI/ML analytics

SQL

Data modelling

Cloud analytics

CI/CD

Education

Tools

Airbyte

Fivetran

Stitch

Job description

Gearset Limited is seeking a Head of Data to own the data strategy and lead a multi-disciplinary team across analytics, data engineering, and data science. You will translate product telemetry and customer data into actionable insights, build self-serve analytics, and embed data into strategic decisions across the business.

You will drive data governance, modern data tooling, and a culture of responsible data usage, while collaborating with GTM Strategy & Operations to align metrics and