Head of Data Analytics

⚡️ Your mission

The Data Analytics team at Birdie is responsible for converting data into value for our customers and our teams. We do this in a number of ways such as by enabling better decision making, improving operations and efficiencies, building data products, measurably reduce risk and more.

To achieve this we have a multidisciplinary team composed of Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Analysts covering the entire data value chain from data ingestion to data exploitation.

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute

• Build and lead a growing data analytics team of 5+ people (1 Analytics Engineer, 2 Product Analysts, 2 Commercial Analysts);
• Partner with our product teams to ensure product decisions are data-driven as we expand our product portfolios and scale our business internationally;
• Collaborate with the leaders from other key business areas, including sales, marketing, and customer success, to support them in making data-driven decisions;
• Drive a data-centric, continuous learning culture with your data storytelling expertise, and grow our best practices around reporting quality, data hygiene, and data governance;

Requirements

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if

• You can demonstrate past experience in a similar role at a previous company;
• You have successfully scaled data analytics teams (product analyst, commercial analyst, data analytics engineer) within one or multiple SaaS product organisations;
• You have experience in building out and maintaining data an overall data stack working closely with product, engineering and revenue operations colleagues;
• You are able to prioritise and build a roadmap for the team focusing on business outcomes;
• You have a track record of pragmatic decision-making, understanding that perfection is not the goal and rather focusing on solving the right problem at the right time;
• You have a good knowledge of the ins and outs of coaching & growing distributed teams;
• You have a results-driven and impact-oriented mindset;
• You are someone who is inspired by, and seeks to embody our values;
• You are humble, and you love learning new things and can mentor or coach others;
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

Benefits

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

✨ Compensation

The salary package for this role is £100k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We do adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Flexible

We are a fully distributed team with Birdie's working across the globe. We organise bi-yearly in-person events and frequent online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the office, you're most welcome of course!

🌱 L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have a personal development budget to put towards books (e.g., free audible subscription), courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts

🌴 Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays) + Christmas eve day off

🎄 Christmas leave

Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

🎂 Birthday leave

You can take your birthday off when it falls on a weekday! (effective from 1st Jan 2023!)

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance

Private health insurance with Vitality that covers many physical and mental health costs

☀️ Gym and wellbeing memberships

Gym membership and numerous other wellbeing perks and discounts via Vitality

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

👵🏻 Pension employer contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension.

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual trips (like our epic ski trips)

🤗 Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.