Head of Data (AI)

Location: On-site in Barcelona, Spain

Company

hirify.global provides hotel management technology to more than 15,000 independent hotels across Europe, helping them access capabilities traditionally available to large hotel chains.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, platform, team, and products for pricing and revenue intelligence.
• Turn hotel data into understandable recommendations and actions inside the product, then measure adoption and revenue impact.
• Define measurement rules before features launch and evaluate results at platform level and against comparable hotels.
• Co-own data-driven product roadmaps with Product Managers and Designers, including data, models, measurable hypotheses, and learning loops.
• Own the data foundation, including the warehouse, pipelines, instrumentation, reporting, self-serve analytics, metric definitions, data quality, access, and privacy across four countries.
• Lead and grow a small team of data engineers and data analysts while remaining hands-on with SQL, Python, models, pipelines, and code reviews.

Requirements

• Experience building products around data rather than dashboards, including shipping models, recommendations, or pricing logic into customer-facing products and demonstrating business results.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, modern data tooling, and experimentation.
• Experience leading a small data team in a startup, including data engineers and analysts, hiring, growth, standards, and platform reliability.
• Ability to measure impact using A/B tests and, when randomization is not possible, matched controls, holdouts, or synthetic controls.
• Customer-impact mindset and comfort owning a revenue metric.
• AI-first approach, including agents, LLM pipelines, and automation.
• Strong collaboration skills with Product, Design, Engineering, leadership, and customer-facing teams.
• Fluent English required.

Nice to have

• Experience in hospitality, travel, marketplaces, pricing and revenue management, demand forecasting, or econometrics.
• Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese.

Culture & Benefits

• Stock options with a progressive vesting schedule.
• Comprehensive health insurance through Alan.
• 25 days of holidays from day one, increasing to 28 after the first year and 30 after two years.
• €10 daily lunch benefit when working from the office, plus flexible benefits for meals, childcare, transportation, and training.
• Books purchased on request and access to a shared team library.
• International team representing more than 35 nationalities and based in a major European technology hub.

Hiring process

• 30-minute Talent Acquisition call.
• 60-minute conversation with the Chief Product Officer, followed by a management conversation.
• Case study using real anonymized data, final conversation with the CEO, and references including a former direct report.