The Data And AI Podcast

This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

Latest Episodes

Data and ai podcast: All Episodes

Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

Episode 23: Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Data Protection in an AI-Driven World

Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

Data Recruitment & AI Talent Solutions

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Welcome to a recruitment journey like no other. At Harnham, we're always interested in finding the right people to join our team.

 

Analytics Engineer

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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ANALYTICS ENGINEER
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £60,000

This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation at an early stage of its data journey, where you will have genuine influence over how data is designed, modelled, and used across the business. You will sit at the heart of a growing data function, working end to end from ingestion through to reporting, with strong exposure to both technical delivery and stakeholder engagement.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Analytics Engineer will:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks.
  • Integrate data from core business systems such as finance, HR, and operational platforms.
  • Develop and improve a lakehouse architecture, supporting ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.
  • Create robust, well-structured data models using best practice approaches such as Kimball and star schema.
  • Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, usable data assets.
  • Support and enhance the Power BI reporting layer, including semantic models and DAX.
  • Help establish data standards, patterns, and ways of working as the data function grows.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience working in a cloud-based data environment, ideally Azure.
  • Solid SQL capability with experience building reliable, scalable data models.
  • Hands-on experience with Power BI, including data modelling and reporting.
  • Experience working with modern data platforms and concepts such as lakehouse or medallion architecture.
  • Exposure to Databricks for data transformation and pipeline development is highly desirable.
  • Confident communicator who can work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Senior Data Scientist – AI and Synthetic Data

London

£75000 - £98000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
England

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Senior Data Scientist, Synthetic Data and GenAI
Fully Remote, UK. Salary up to £98,000

This is a rare opportunity to help shape a brand new synthetic data capability at a critical point of growth. You will join a newly formed team focused on applying Generative AI and LLMs to real world market research problems, with genuine ownership, autonomy, and visibility across product, engineering, and clients.

The Company
They are a global technology business operating at the intersection of data, research, and AI. With a strong foundation in large scale, consented data, they are now investing heavily in AI driven products that improve insight quality, speed, and coverage. This initiative sits at the core of their future product strategy and is backed by significant internal investment.

The Role
You will play a key role in building and deploying AI powered synthetic data products, working end to end from problem definition through to production and client adoption.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing, validating, and deploying LLM based synthetic data models
  • Generating synthetic survey responses across open text and structured formats
  • Building systems that augment real respondent data while preserving statistical integrity
  • Partnering closely with Engineering and Product to productionise models
  • Explaining and defending methodologies to non technical and client facing stakeholders

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience applying Generative AI and LLMs in production environments
  • Solid NLP capability across text generation, analysis, and augmentation
  • Strong grounding in statistics and experimental design, with a clear approach to validation
  • Expert level Python and strong SQL skills
  • Confidence working with large, complex datasets and collaborating with engineering teams
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences

Experience with synthetic data, prompt engineering, fine tuning open source models, cloud platforms, or survey and market research data would be beneficial, but is not essential.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £98,000 depending on experience
  • Fully remote working with optional London meet ups
  • High autonomy within a lean, impact driven team
  • The chance to work on genuinely novel GenAI products with real world application
  • Clear scope for progression as the synthetic data platform scales

How to Apply
If you are excited by applied GenAI, synthetic data, and building products that will define the future of data driven insight, apply now to learn more.

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Programmatic Exec

London

£30000 - £40000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Programmatic Executive
Hemel Hempstead (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Up to £40,000 plus benefits

This is an exciting opportunity for a Programmatic specialist to join a growing performance marketing function where data, experimentation, and digital innovation sit at the heart of their strategy. You will play a key role in delivering high quality traffic and driving commercial performance across key digital channels.

The Company

They are a well-established UK consumer brand that has undergone significant digital transformation in recent years. With a focus on elevating customer experience, they use data, technology, and insight to power smarter marketing decisions. Their performance marketing team is expanding, giving you the chance to join a forward-thinking environment with strong leadership and investment in digital excellence.

The Role

* Build, optimise, and manage programmatic campaigns to drive qualified traffic.
* Contribute to paid social delivery where relevant.
* Analyse campaign performance, produce reports, and present recommendations to stakeholders.
* Work closely with senior team members to identify opportunities for optimisation and efficiency.
* Ensure creative is data-informed and set up to maximise engagement and conversion.
* Support the wider performance marketing strategy to improve commercial outcomes.

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience in programmatic marketing.
* Exposure to paid social activation or optimisation.
* Confident using data and insight to inform decisions and improve performance.
* Comfortable presenting findings and communicating with stakeholders.
* A proactive, analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.

What They Offer

* Salary up to £40,000.
* Annual bonus up to 15 percent.
* Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution options.
* Generous holiday allowance with a holiday buy scheme.
* Discounts on holidays, retail, travel, and more.
* Life assurance, wellbeing support, digital GP access, and advisory services.
* Electric and hybrid vehicle leasing via salary sacrifice.

How to Apply
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Paid Social and Programmatic Exec

Hemel Hempstead

£27000 - £35000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

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Paid Social & Programmatic Executive

Hybrid (Hemel Hampstead)
Up to £35,000

We’re hiring a Paid Social & Programmatic Executive to support the delivery, optimisation, and reporting of digital marketing campaigns across Paid Social and Programmatic channels for a major consumer brand.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for creating and optimising campaigns across Paid Social, Display, Video, and Programmatic channels, helping drive high-quality traffic and performance to a leading consumer website.

You’ll work closely with brand, performance marketing, and creative teams to ensure campaigns are well-executed, insight-led, and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and optimise Paid Social and Programmatic campaigns
  • Monitor daily performance and deliver clear reporting and insights
  • Recommend improvements to improve campaign performance and efficiency
  • Work with internal and external teams to ensure high-quality creative delivery
  • Support performance tracking against KPI and budget targets
  • Present campaign performance when required

What We’re Looking For

  • 2+ years’ experience in digital marketing / performance marketing
  • Hands-on experience with Paid Social campaigns
  • Understanding of Programmatic Display and Video
  • Strong Excel and data interpretation skills
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Nice to Have

  • Experience in hospitality or consumer-facing brands
  • Degree educated
  • Exposure to broader digital marketing channels

Why Apply

  • Work across high-visibility paid media campaigns
  • Join a collaborative performance marketing team
  • Gain exposure across Paid Social and Programmatic channels
  • Strong development opportunity within a major consumer brand

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Product Manager – Onboarding (Fintech | B2C Mobile)

London

£90000 - £110000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Manager – Onboarding, Growth & KYC (Fintech | B2C Mobile)

Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Compensation: £90,000 – £110,000 + bonus + benefits

We are hiring a Product Manager to lead onboarding, activation, and identity verification journeys within a rapidly scaling fintech wallet product.

About the Role

You will own the end-to-end onboarding experience, including sign-up, identity verification (KYC), and early user activation. Your focus will be improving conversion, reducing drop-off, and accelerating user engagement across multiple markets.

This role is highly data-driven and central to the company’s growth strategy as it expands across new geographies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own onboarding and activation product journeys
  • Design and optimise KYC and identity verification flows
  • Improve conversion across sign-up → activation funnel
  • Identify and reduce user drop-off points
  • Drive improvements in early engagement and retention
  • Support product launches in new markets
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, data, and design teams

About You

  • 5-6+ years Product Management experience in fintech
  • Strong ownership of onboarding, activation, or growth products
  • Experience with KYC / identity verification flows
  • Strong background in funnel analytics and conversion optimisation
  • Experience working on B2C mobile products at scale (500k+ users)
  • Analytical and data-driven decision maker
  • Experience in fintech scale-up or neo-bank environment

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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SEO Manager

London

£35000 - £45000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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SEO Manager (Website)

London, 4 days per week in office (5 day working week) , up to £45000

A great opportunity to take ownership of SEO performance for a high‑traffic ecommerce site, driving organic growth and shaping strategy within a fast‑paced digital environment. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys leading SEO direction while still being hands‑on with technical and content optimisation.

The Company

They are a large, multi‑brand retail organisation with a strong digital presence and a focus on continuous improvement. Their teams work in an ambitious, data‑driven environment where SEO plays a crucial role in scaling traffic, revenue and online visibility. You will join a supportive team that values expertise, collaboration and commercial impact.

The Role

* Manage and optimise SEO performance across an allocated site
* Develop and deliver the SEO roadmap covering technical, on‑page and content activity
* Lead keyword research, technical audits and site improvements
* Oversee day‑to‑day SEO operations and support a small team
* Analyse KPIs, report on performance and identify growth opportunities
* Partner with wider teams on content, PR, usability and site architecture
* Keep ahead of industry trends and champion SEO best practice

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience in an SEO‑focused role within ecommerce
* Confident managing technical SEO, keyword strategy and onsite optimisation
* Ability to analyse performance data and translate it into clear actions
* Experience presenting results, insights and recommendations
* Comfortable leading workflows and supporting junior team members
* Strong understanding of usability, content structure and user behaviour

What They Offer

* Up to £45000 plus benefits
* Four‑days a week in the office, 5 day working week
* Opportunity to lead SEO strategy for a major consumer brand
* Growth potential and exposure to high‑impact digital projects

How to Apply

If this sounds like the right next step for you, please apply with your CV.

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Product Manager – Payments and Cards (Fintech-Mobile)

London

£90000 - £110000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Manager – Payments & Cards (Fintech | B2C Mobile)

Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Compensation: £90,000 – £110,000 + bonus + benefits

We are hiring a Product Manager to own and scale core payments and card functionality within a fast-growing fintech wallet ecosystem embedded in a global super app.

About the Role

You will take ownership of card-related product experiences, including virtual cards, transaction flows, and digital wallet integrations. This is a scale-up phase role focused on improving reliability, performance, and user experience across payment journeys.

You will work closely with engineering and data teams to optimise transaction success rates, enhance payment infrastructure, and expand integrations with major payment providers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve card product features (virtual cards, lifecycle management)
  • Improve card-to-card and wallet payment flows
  • Drive integrations with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and digital wallets
  • Optimise transaction success rates and payment reliability
  • Analyse payment performance and user behaviour across flows
  • Partner with engineering on payments infrastructure and delivery
  • Improve end-to-end in-app payment experience at scale

About You

  • 5-6+ years Product Management experience in fintech
  • Proven ownership of payments, cards, or wallet products
  • Experience in B2C mobile applications
  • Background in high-scale environments (500k+ users)
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience in:
    • Transaction performance
    • Payment funnel analysis
  • Experience in a fintech scale-up or neo-bank environment (preferred)

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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Senior Data Architect (8-month FTC)

Manchester

£90000 - £101000

+ Data Engineering

Contract
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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I’m hiring a Senior BI Data Architect to join a global SaaS organisation and take ownership of a large‑scale data platform transformation.

This is a hands‑on architecture role sitting at the intersection of data engineering and BI – where your work will directly shape how the business uses data to make decisions.


The company

A global technology business operating in the data and insights / research space, serving major clients worldwide and processing hundreds of millions of data points annually.

They are investing heavily in modernising their data platform and analytics capabilities, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and self‑serve analytics.


The role

You’ll take full ownership of the Databricks Lakehouse and BI architecture, leading the migration away from legacy systems while building a clean, governed and scalable platform.

This is not just a design role – you’ll be deep in the detail, refactoring SQL, building pipelines, and optimising performance.


What you’ll be doing

  • Design and implement a governed Databricks Lakehouse architecture (Unity Catalog, schemas, volumes)
  • Lead migration of complex legacy SQL logic into modular, scalable pipelines
  • Build and optimise data transformation frameworks using Spark / Python / SQL pipelines
  • Act as the go‑to expert for query performance optimisation (Spark execution plans, data skew, joins)
  • Design and implement dimensional data models (star / snowflake schemas)
  • Architect the semantic layer for BI (Omni or similar tools like Looker)
  • Build CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment
  • Work with stakeholders across Product, Finance, and Commercial teams to deliver scalable solutions

What you bring

Must‑haves

  • 8+ years in data engineering / data architecture
  • Deep experience with Databricks (Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
  • Expert SQL and distributed computing knowledge
  • Strong experience with data modelling (star / snowflake schemas)
  • Proven experience migrating legacy data platforms
  • Ability to optimise performance across large datasets
  • Experience with modern BI semantic layers (e.g. Looker, Omni, Superset)
  • Experience with CI/CD and version control (Git)

Nice to have

  • Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
  • Exposure to AI/BI or natural language querying tools
  • Experience in multi‑tenant or embedded analytics environments

Why this role

  • Own and shape a modern data platform at scale
  • High‑impact project with visible business outcomes
  • Combination of architecture + hands‑on engineering
  • Work on performance, scalability, and governance challenges
  • Flexible, remote‑friendly working

What success looks like

  • A clean, governed Lakehouse architecture
  • Improved performance and reduced cost across the platform
  • Scalable, reusable data pipelines
  • A robust semantic layer enabling self‑serve analytics across the business

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