Wyatt Partners are retained on a Search for a Data Leader to join the leadership team of a Product focused consumer tech company with a multi billion £ valuation.

From a Technical Perspective:

• Everything that any customer has ever done is recorded in a single Big Query project.
• Data models via airflow+dbt and use Looker on top of that for dashboards and analysis

There is certainly work to be done in terms of sharpening tools and making it easier to deploy ML Models but generally things are in good shape.

Organisationally though, the ‘Data Function’ has struggled to keep up with the growth and the needs of the business.

What worked well in the early days of the company relied on a very small data team with a company-wide self-serve capability and a high level of data and tech literacy across the business. They have found it difficult to scale this approach to our current size org (c. 2000 pax)

There are c. 80 Data staff in the business & most of them work matrixed into interdisciplinary teams within product groups, reporting into leaders with very different levels of data expertise and expectations of the role.

The challenges of the role:

• Design & Deliver a fit for purpose Data Org & team model to ensure Data delivers maximum impact for the organisation
• Be the Analytics Partner for the Exec team and really influence strategic decision making
• Data Governance & Data Management. Knowledge around Data Challenges like Data Quality, Self Serve enablement, Metadata Management, Data Protection & Privacy. (You don’t need to be an expert in these areas necessarily but they will be challenges to be overseen)
• Align with the Exec teams Business Strategy & deliver the Data Strategy accordingly
• Proactively building influence across the entire organisation, developing relationships with key individuals

We are looking for an individual who has led the Data function & taken on many of the challenges above previously whilst working within a high growth organisation.