Head of Data, Lepaya
2+ days a week in office
Power skill trainings for professionals
Job no longer available
Power skill trainings for professionals
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals worldwide to be more effective in their work and to lead happier lives so that they can ignite businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about navigating the evolving landscape of data-driven decision-making?
- Are you eager to lead a team in developing and executing a comprehensive data strategy that drives success both externally and internally?
- 10+ years of experience in data, analytics or data scientist roles
- Seen the broad range of data engineering and analytics, from building your own databases, dashboarding, predictive analytics and setting up strategic reporting
- Effectively led data/analytics teams for at least 5 years and teams of at least 4-6 people
- Proven track record of creating and driving data and analytics projects with significant impact on the business
- Business savvy: strong business acumen and ability to translate business needs into actionable insights
- Curious: the keen ability to synthesize across data, market, customer, and business inputs to develop insights and learnings to be used across the company
- Experience in small to medium-sized organizations with tech-driven products and learned from great leaders what good looks like
- Strategic thinking with a bias to action: Able to create a compelling long-term product strategy while delivering immediate impact and results
- Demonstrated hands-on skills at a high proficiency level in:
- SQL (Snowflake or other MPP warehouse preferred)
- Data modeling and architecture (dbt or similar)
- Business intelligence and insights (eg Tableau, PowerBI, Looker)
What the job involves
- In this position, you will have the opportunity to guide our company in leveraging data to enhance our products, drive client value, and enhance internal operations. You will be reporting to our CTO
- Working closely with our Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Management Team (MT), you will play a pivotal role in harnessing the power of data for strategic advantage. If this opportunity is appealing, we invite you to continue reading
- Your first year achievements
- Strategy: develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy aligned with the company's opportunities and needs which is both externally and internally focused
- Externally (product): how can we leverage the data we collect, be strategic about what we want to collect in order to maximize client value (co-owner CPO)
- Internally: how can we be optimally set up for clear and agile steering based on relevant and correct metrics & insights (co-owners: MT)
- Execution: translate the strategy into a clear data roadmap, prioritizing projects based on stakeholder feedback and business objectives and proactively manage projects throughout the organization
- With the strategy and priorities in mind:
- Ensure high quality: implement processes and systems to ensure high-level of data quality across the organization, with shared definitions on metrics & KPIs, easy accessibility of data & insights and keeping stakeholders accountable for data quality and usage
- Create scalable and solid infrastructure: implement data and tech best practices that enables efficient storage, processing and analysis, while working closely with tech to create guidelines on requirements for database creation and structures
- Drive innovation: research, test and implement new technologies (e.g. AI) to automate tasks, enhance existing products or uncover new insights from existing data or processes
- Team Leadership: Cultivate and support a high-performing team comprising data engineers, data scientists and analysts, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability. Support team on both development of technical and soft skills
- Evangelism: drive a culture of data driven decision making, by actively building relationships with business stakeholders, understanding their challenges and providing insights and processes to create a data driven culture
Application process
- Ensuring that your candidate journey is smooth is our top priority! Here's a sneak peek into our standard hiring process
- First, an introductory interview
- A chat with the hiring manager
- Technical interview or a business case
- A chance to meet our founder
- An offer!
- We're all about getting to know you better, so we'll invite you to our office for a face-to-face stage, where you can meet potential future colleagues and experience our awesome office vibes firsthand!
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Lepaya is an edtech company which was established with the belief that the right training at the right time is paramount to making organisations more productive. They provide training via a hybrid learning model, combining bite-sized online content with group sessions led by experienced trainers.
Lepaya combines "hard" skills with "soft" skills, which they call "power skills" training. Lepaya has worked with scale-ups such as Mollie, Picnic and Bynder as well as multinationals such as L’Oréal, Microsoft and KPMG.
The global training and development sector is worth billions. With its 2023 funding boost (the largest annual funding raise in its sector) and 2022 acquisition of UK-based SpeakFirst, Lepaya aims to drive its mission to make fast-growing companies more productive by upskilling their workforce. Lepaya will use the funding and acquisitions to further expand into European markets such as the UK, Germany, and the Nordics.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2023
$38m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$38m
SERIES B
Total funding: $83.2m
Company benefits
- Disruptive approach to learning and development
- Fun international team
- Inspiring and fast-paced environment
- Lots of responsibility and opportunities for growth
- Our work-to-live scheme: unlimited holidays and Friday off every second week
Company values
- Nimble. In the world of L&D everyone soon finds out that mental flexibility (the physical we leave to you) is essential
- Delight. Our mission is to make it possible for employees to feel great in the workplace
- Impact. We work to live, not live to work
- Excellence
Company HQ
De Weteringschans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Founders
René Janssen
(Managing Director)They were an Executive Vice President & Deputy Chief People officer at Lazada Group.
Peter Kuperus
(Managing Director)They've previously worked at TravelBird as a Vice President and Manager. They have also co-found Westwing Home & Living NL.
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