Senior Manager, Product Data Science & Analytics
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead and develop a team of Product Analysts and Data Scientists, driving goal-setting, planning, and execution across the Product Data Science organization. Set and raise the bar for analytical quality, experimentation rigour, and data science application, translating ambiguous business problems into structured analytical solutions. Partner with senior Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Commercial leaders to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and ensure data science is embedded in strategic decision-making. Drive adoption of scalable analytical frameworks, experimentation standards, and AI-enabled tooling to improve efficiency and speed of decision-making. Build and evolve team capability through hiring, coaching, and performance management while identifying and removing systemic blockers to high-quality analytics delivery. Influence cross-functional stakeholders across multiple product domains to ensure clarity, prioritisation, and strong decision-making discipline.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience in data science or a similar quantitative role
- Proven track record of supporting and influencing a product organization
- Expert Level proficiency in Python
- Expert Level proficiency in SQL
- Deep, hands-on experience with statistical modeling
- Deep, hands-on experience with (quasi) experimentation
- Deep, hands-on experience with multi-arm bandit
- Deep, hands-on experience with a wide range of machine learning techniques
- Demonstrated ability to define, implement, and operationalise crucial product and feature-level metrics from scratch
- Proven track record of driving strategic impact through proactive and collaborative approach
- Proven ability to lead technical discussions
- Proven ability to drive product strategy
- Proven ability to communicate complex insights effectively to cross-functional partners
- Experience scaling analytics or data science capabilities
- Experience driving impact through the creation of automated processes, self-service tools, or data products
- Leader in critical thinking
- Previous experience demonstrating the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgment by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation
- Outstanding leadership skills
- Experience in mentoring, coaching, and developing teams of analysts or data scientists
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to engage, influence, and inspire cross-functional partners at all levels
- Proven ability to build strong relationships and drive outcomes across Product, Engineering, Data Platform and other central functions
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Physics
- Bachelor's degree in Economics
- Bachelor's degree in a related quantitative field
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working within a high-scale technology company
- Experience working within a marketplace
- Experience working within an e-commerce business
- Experience working within a travel technology organisation
- A strong technical background in Product Data Science
- A strong technical background in Data Science
- A strong technical background in Experimentation
- A strong technical background in Machine Learning
- Experience building and scaling experimentation platforms
- Experience building and scaling measurement frameworks
- Experience building and scaling self-service capabilities
- Experience building and scaling data products
- Experience applying AI
- Experience applying Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Experience applying Agentic AI
- Experience applying automation technologies to improve analytics productivity and decision-making effectiveness
- Experience leading organisational change
- Experience improving analytical maturity
- Experience raising standards across multiple teams or functions
- A reputation for raising the standard of thinking, execution, and decision-making in every team and organisation you join
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