Head of Data Insights
Marketplacer, Australia
Job Description
Marketplacer is a global SaaS company that enables customers to create all types of marketplaces. We are recognised as one of the world’s leading providers of online marketplace software and our vision is to connect the world to enable commerce.
We are in the fortunate position to be growing rapidly and as a result, we are looking for a Head of Data amp; Insights. This is a newly formed role, reporting to our CTO.
In this role you create and execute on strategy at a Global level whilst building/managing a team of Data Analysts amp; Developers focused on delivery. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business in Australia and USA.
Requirements
As this is a newly formed position, initially you’ll be working autonomously with a view to build out a small team as we scale. Ideally you’ll come from a similar environment and be excited to build everything from scratch.
What the candidate needs to bring to the role:
- You have developed an impressive reputation in the data amp; insights space and are ready to create and execute on a strategy at a global level.
- You have experience leading a team of data analysts and developers to deliver exceptional outcomes in executing on a strategy
- You set a high bar and are driven by achieving outstanding results for our customers when it comes to data amp; insights
- You are known as a strong communicator and have a way of making the complex simple so all are able to understand.
- What really sets you apart is your strong analytical capability, it is the way you think, process and make decisions.
- You are always thinking ahead and sharing new ideas of what else can be offered for our customers
Benefits
Basic requirements of the role:
- 5-10 years experience as a product manager for consumer web products and/or data platforms
- Experience with Python, ML, Solr/Lucene/Elasticsearch
- The drive, determination and resilience to quickly work through ambiguity to an outcome
- Ability to design and conduct experiments and analyse the results for data-driven decisioning
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work as part of a global team
- Creating and executing a long-range data and insights roadmap that is designed to address future business needs
- Building a data driven culture by utilising data to drive, refine and/or support consumer facing initiatives
- Framing complex data analysis in the context of business drivers and deliver conclusions that are formed with corroborating data; communicating this to the business/key stakeholders in a manner they understand
- Proactively proposing improvements, new concepts and process changes to optimise current data, analytics and insight environments
If you can make this role your own, then tell us why. Let us know what special skills you will bring to the team at Marketplacer!