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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Own Conveo's data, from the warehouse to the dashboard, and build the team every part of the business relies on.
This role can be based from either our London or Antwerp location.
Conveo is building the AI-powered infrastructure for consumer understanding, making consumer and B2B research fast, affordable and high quality. Global brands such as Unilever, Google and Orange use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across their marketing, product and research teams.
Backed by Y Combinator, we're in a period of rapid growth. We started this year with around 20 people and are on track to reach around 120 by year end, so the people who join now have an outsized chance to shape how the company is built.
We raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global, giving us the fuel to move even faster. We’re investing in our product, growing an exceptional team, and taking on bigger challenges as we enter our next stage of growth.
You'll be our first Head of Data. You'll own internal data at Conveo and build the team that serves the whole company with it.
You won't be starting from a blank page. Our GTM engineering team has built a data warehouse and semantic layer and has made a start on BI, and colleagues in operations have helped shape our metric definitions. What we don't have is one person who owns all of it, knows what good looks like, and turns it into something every team trusts and uses.
You'll report to our CFO and work very closely with our CTO, as well as with the engineering team, operations and go-to-market. This is a hands-on role. You'll be in the data yourself, not writing a strategy and handing it over. You'll start as the first member of the data team, with a remit to hire as we grow.
This is a role for the long term, not an audit-and-leave project. It starts with the foundations and grows into a bigger team, with room for machine learning and data science to help us predict more across the business.
Own the data stack end to end
Take ownership of our warehouse (Google BigQuery), our transformation and semantic layers (dbt and Cube today) and our BI tooling (Metabase today)
Review what's been built with a critical eye, and get it ready to scale as new tools and data sources come in
Think through access rights, so it's clear who can see customer, HR and financial data once it all lives in one place
Build one source of truth the business trusts
Own metric definitions, so every team works from the same numbers
Close the gaps that matter most, starting with areas like marketing attribution and the data our finance team needs for its analysis
Make our data reliable enough that people trust it and act on it
Turn data into insight for every team
Sit down with department leads, get to the real question behind a request, and build the analysis that answers it
Act as the translator between engineering and the business: ask engineers the hard questions about what to build, and explain data in plain English to everyone else
Swap today's sprawl of one-off dashboards and AI-generated reports for a clear set of things people actually need to look at
Use AI well, without the slop
Shape our data so AI tools can use it reliably
Help the business get real value from AI for analysis, without a flood of low-quality output
Build the data team
Hire your first team members, and set out what the BI team should look like as we grow
Lay the groundwork for machine learning and data science later on
After one month: you know our data infrastructure properly and have run a full gap analysis covering what we take in, what we understand and what's missing. You also have a plan for what to fix first and a plan for the team, including your first hires.
After three months: you've reviewed the setup in place and own BigQuery, the transformation layer and our BI tooling, and our systems are ready to scale. Teams are already using data better because of work you've delivered.
After six months: every department is running with deep insights and analytics, and our leaders have the confidence and ability to use the data themselves.
Throughout: people trust the numbers, the business has the dashboards it needs rather than a thousand it doesn't, and we know who the data team hires next.
Experience leading data at a startup or scale-up, as a Head of Data, Head of Analytics or similar. Ideally you've been at a Series B company or later and have seen what good structure looks like at the next stage
Hands-on BI and analytics experience. You've done the insights work, not only data engineering, and you know what good BI looks like
Enough technical depth to ask engineers the hard questions, and a clear understanding of how data flows from the warehouse through transformation and semantic layers into a BI tool.
A problem solver's instinct: you can talk to a department lead, draw out what they really need, and turn it into analysis
A commercial mindset: you understand how a business works and what it needs from its data
Strong stakeholder skills. Lots of people will want your time, and you prioritise well while keeping their trust
Everyday use of AI in how you work, and a view on how to build data that AI tools can rely on
Experience of the challenges that come with scaling fast, and a clear sense of the structure you'll bring as we grow
Hands-on experience with BigQuery, dbt, Cube or Metabase
Work directly with frontier AI models and push what they can actually do.
Join a YC-backed team that's growing fast and gives you room to grow with it.
Competitive salary (£115k-£130k) and meaningful equity. We want you to own a real piece of what we're building.
Offices in London, Antwerp, and New York. We work best together, so we ask for 3 days a week in the office.
Regular socials: rooftop drinks, team dinners, run clubs, and more.
Twice-yearly off-sites to places worth travelling to. Austria, Las Vegas, and Portugal.
Private health coverage with Vitality (incl. dental, vision)
Enhanced employer pension contribution (5% employer, 3% employee contribution)
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