Head of Data (SaaS)

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom; hybrid, with around 4 days per month in the office and flexible home working

Salary: £100k–£120k per year, depending on experience

Company

hirify.global is a data-driven SaaS company building tools and systems around product telemetry, customer insights, and cloud-native backend data.

What you will do

• Own hirify.global’s data strategy and roadmap, shaping how data is collected, modelled, governed, and used across the business.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary data team spanning analytics, analytics engineering, and data engineering.
• Partner with senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders to define business metrics, prioritise objectives, and embed analytics into strategic decisions.
• Guide the data platform, including ingestion, trusted reusable foundations, reporting, and self-serve analytics tooling.
• Build an internal data community and deliver training on responsible data use and data literacy.
• Set software engineering standards for the data platform, including version control, automated testing, and CI/CD; own tooling budgets and vendor selection.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience developing multidisciplinary data teams covering analytics, data science, and data engineering, and delivering a company-wide data roadmap with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience defining an approach to AI/ML-driven analytics, including evaluating LLMs and generative AI tools for data workflows or self-serve analytics.
• Deep expertise in SQL and data modelling, with strong knowledge of software engineering principles applied to data, including version control, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Strong experience with cloud analytics platforms such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake; dbt; and visualisation tools such as Omni, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Experience establishing data governance and data quality standards.
• Experience driving self-serve analytics adoption and data literacy across non-technical teams.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, define key business metrics, and translate complex analysis into solutions that support strategic decisions and business value.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement in Cambridge, United Kingdom, including around 4 office days per month.

Nice to have

• Experience working with data in a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience with data integration tools such as Airbyte, Fivetran, or Stitch.
• Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or similar privacy and compliance frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time Monday-to-Friday role with flexible home working and regular office collaboration.
• Personal development budget of up to £1,500 per year, plus top-end hardware.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 additional days.
• Company pension matching up to 5%, Bupa healthcare and dental insurance, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
• Enhanced family leave from day one, including 26 weeks of full maternity/adoption pay, plus menopause support and other wellness benefits.
• Long Term Incentive Plan, free office lunch, and discounted gym membership.