Head of Data & Analytics

A seed-stage wealthtech company is hiring a Head of Data and Analytics to build and scale its analytics and data platform capability. This role requires a hybrid leader who can drive business analytics, build the right data foundations, and partner closely with founders and business stakeholders to enable faster decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale the company's analytics function across business, product, and leadership reporting.
• Design and manage data architecture, including data warehouses, data marts, pipelines, and reporting layers.
• Partner with founders and cross-functional leaders to define KPIs, reporting frameworks, and decision-making dashboards.
• Translate business problems into data solutions that improve growth, efficiency, and visibility.
• Lead a small team of analysts and data engineers while also being hands-on where required.
• Drive data quality, metric governance, automation, and scalable reporting practices.
• Build a roadmap for the next stage of data maturity in a fast-growing startup environment.

Requirements:

• 8 to 10+ years of experience in analytics, BI, data engineering, or hybrid data and analytics leadership roles.
• Strong experience in analytics ownership, dashboarding, KPI design, and business decision support.
• Experience building or managing data warehouses, data marts, ETL or ELT pipelines, and modern BI environments.
• Strong SQL and working knowledge of Python or similar tools used in analytics engineering and automation.
• Exposure to platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent modern data stacks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working with CXOs, founders, or business heads.
• Prior team management experience across analysts, BI engineers, or data engineers.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and build from scratch in a seed-stage or high-growth environment.