Gearset has been a data-driven SaaS company from day one, and we're looking for a Head of Data to shape the future of how we collect, model, and leverage our rapidly growing ecosystem of telemetry and customer insights.

Reporting to the SVP of GTM Strategy & Operations, you will guide a multi-disciplinary data Team to foster a thriving internal data community, drive self-serve analytics adoption, and embed data into the heart of our strategic decisions as we scale.

What’s the opportunity for a Head of Data at Gearset?

• You’ll own Gearset’s data strategy, lead the Data Team and shape the direction for how Gearset collects, models, and utilises data across the entire business.

• Translate an increasing wealth of product telemetry, a growing customer database, and cloud-native backend systems into actionable insights that drive better company-wide decisions.

• Empower teams across Gearset to independently access and learn from our data, enabling them to make high-impact changes to our product and business processes.

• Build and nurture an internal data community, ensuring key business metrics are clearly defined, consistently monitored, and embedded seamlessly into our strategic decision-making.

What you’ll achieve

• Line manage and develop a multi-disciplinary data team spanning analytics, analytics engineering and data engineering, building business capability within the team.

• Own the data strategy and roadmap, prioritising short and long-term objectives in partnership with stakeholders across the business.

• Partner with cross-functional leadership and non-technical stakeholders to align on priorities, embed analytics into strategic decisions, and provide self-serve tooling and support.

• Guide the future of the Data platform, ensuring the ingestion of necessary data to provide trusted, reusable foundations for company-wide reporting.

• Develop a data community and deliver training that teaches responsible use of data.

• Setting and holding team accountable to software engineering best practices to govern the data platform, including version control, automated testing and 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, including UK GDPR.

About you

• Demonstrated experience developing multi-disciplinary data teams (analytics, data science, data engineering) and delivering a company-wide data roadmap with measurable business outcomes.