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.

 

Research Manager (Consulting)

London

£60000 - £63000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Research Analyst / Consultant

Old Street, London (4 days in office, Fridays WFH)
Up to £63,000

I’m hiring a Research Analyst to join a fast-growing Series A-B research and technology startup using AI to transform how organisations understand people and make decisions.

This is a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional research agency work, combining quantitative research, consulting, and emerging AI-powered methodologies. You’ll work on high-impact projects across social, political, and commercial topics, partnering with leading foundations, think tanks, and mission-led organisations.

The role:

  • Own end-to-end delivery of bespoke research projects
  • Design and run quantitative research (survey design, sampling, analysis)
  • Deliver insights through reports, presentations, and visualisations
  • Work closely with analytics teams on advanced methods (segmentation, regression)
  • Contribute to innovative AI-led research and qualitative outputs

What we’re looking for:

  • 4+ years’ experience in quantitative or mixed-methods research
  • Background in social, political, or opinion research (preferred)
  • Strong client and project management experience
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear insights
  • Interest in AI tools and modern research techniques

BENEFITS

The successful candidate will receive a salary of up to £63,000, alongside a competitive benefits package. This includes hybrid working (4 days in office, Fridays from home), strong development opportunities, and the chance to work in a high-growth startup using cutting-edge AI tools. You’ll be part of a collaborative, low-hierarchy environment with real ownership and exposure to impactful, global projects.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Keji Adebari via the Apply link on this page!

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Product Analyst (FTC)

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Analyst (6 Month FTC)
London, Hybrid (1 to 2 days per week) | Up to £70,000 pro rata
This is a high impact opportunity for a Product Analyst to join a fast scaling, product led digital business during a key period of growth. You will work closely with Product, Engineering and Commercial teams to turn data into actionable insight, directly influencing user experience, conversion and product strategy.
The Company
They are a rapidly growing, private equity backed digital platform operating a large scale membership model with millions of active users. The business has built a strong product culture, with experienced leadership from well known consumer technology organisations. With continued international expansion and investment in data, they are focused on using insight to drive smarter, faster decisions across the organisation.
The Role

  • Use quantitative analysis and data storytelling to understand user behaviour, product performance and conversion
  • Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to identify friction points and opportunities across the product journey
  • Support experimentation by generating hypotheses, designing tests and analysing results to drive a test and learn culture
  • Define and align core product metrics with stakeholders, ensuring consistency and accuracy across teams
  • Build and maintain self serve dashboards and analytics tools using a modern data stack
  • Deliver deep dive analysis to inform product and commercial strategy
  • Contribute to a shared insights hub, documenting reports, metrics and learnings to support wider teams

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial and analytical experience within a product led or technology driven environment
  • Proven background in product analytics, working closely with cross functional teams
  • Experience building dashboards and reporting for a range of stakeholders
  • Strong data modelling mindset and comfort working with modern data environments
  • Experience with tools such as dbt and modern BI platforms like Lightdash or Looker is beneficial

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £70,000 pro rata for a 6 month fixed term contract
  • Flexible hybrid working with 1 to 2 days per week in a London office
  • A visible, high impact role within a fast scaling business
  • The opportunity to shape and improve self serve analytics capability within a mature data function

How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this Product Analyst contract opportunity.

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Creative Designer/Lead

Leeds

£350 - £450

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Creative Lead, Marketing (Contract)

Remote, 9 Month Contract

A chance to take ownership of creative output for a high-impact digital product, shaping emotionally engaging campaigns across web, app, and CRM touchpoints within a fast-moving healthcare-focused environment.

The Company
They are a well-established digital product organisation working on services that support users at key moments in their lives. With a strong in-house marketing, CRM, and copy function, they are focused on delivering meaningful and user-centred communications at scale. This role sits within a dedicated product squad, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to improve user engagement and experience.

The Role and Deliverables
* Lead creative direction across marketing campaigns, spanning web, email, app, and social channels
* Design visually compelling and emotionally engaging layouts and campaign assets
* Translate complex messaging into clear, user-focused creative outputs
* Collaborate with copy, CRM, and marketing teams to deliver cohesive campaigns
* Introduce creative thinking into a data-driven environment, balancing insight with emotion
* Explore the use of AI tools for ideation and rapid creative prototyping

Your Skills & Experience
* Strong experience as a Creative Lead or Senior Marketing Designer in digital environments
* Proven ability to deliver high-quality creative across multiple channels, including web, email, and app
* Experience working within healthcare, public sector, or similarly regulated environments is highly desirable
* Ability to bring emotional intelligence and tone of voice into creative work
* Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including CRM and marketing
* Interest in using AI to support creative ideation and workflow efficiency

How to Apply
If you’re interested in leading creative direction on a meaningful product, please apply with your CV and portfolio.

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UX Designer

London

£350 - £450

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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London (Remote), £350-450 Day Rate, Contract Length TBC

A unique opportunity to shape a next-generation AI-driven marketing and personalisation product. This contract focuses on designing intuitive, scalable user journeys for a platform that enables businesses to create tailored customer experiences with ease.

The Company
They are a fast-growing startup working at the intersection of AI and marketing technology. Their product enables businesses to design and deploy personalised customer journeys and campaigns in a modular, flexible way. The platform is evolving quickly, with a strong focus on improving usability and streamlining complex workflows. This is a highly collaborative environment with direct access to founders and decision-makers.

The Role and Deliverables
* Design end-to-end UX for an AI-powered personalisation and campaign-building platform
* Create clear, intuitive journey flows that simplify complex user interactions
* Translate product requirements into wireframes and high-quality UX artefacts
* Improve the usability and efficiency of campaign creation and customer targeting workflows
* Collaborate closely with founders and product teams to iterate on design concepts
* Support the development of “next best action” features within customer journeys

Your Skills and Experience
* Strong experience designing UX for complex applications or platforms
* Proven ability to design structured, step-by-step user journeys and flows
* Experience working on AI-driven products, personalisation systems, or data-led platforms
* Background in designing transactional or logic-heavy environments, such as fintech or similar
* Ability to simplify manual, complex workflows into intuitive user experiences
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup environment with senior stakeholders

How to Apply
If you are interested in shaping a cutting-edge AI product, please apply with your CV and portfolio.

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Senior Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer

London

£440 - £540

+ Data Science & AI

Contract
London

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Senior Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer
Fully Remote
Outside IR35
£440-£540 Per Day
Immediate Start Date
4-6 Weeks long

The Company
They are a specialist technology consultancy focused on delivering AI-driven solutions for large, complex organisations. Their work centres on turning advanced AI capabilities into practical, production-ready applications that deliver measurable business value. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and driven by technical excellence. Engineers are trusted to lead, influence, and make meaningful decisions.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Lead the design and build of end-to-end AI-powered applications, from initial architecture through to production deployment.
  • Architect scalable backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces that expose AI capabilities to enterprise users.
  • Design and implement agentic AI systems, including orchestration patterns, tool integration, and evaluation approaches.
  • Set technical direction and best practices across the full stack, ensuring high standards of quality and maintainability.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design input, and hands-on problem solving.
  • Contribute to reusable components and frameworks that accelerate delivery across engagements.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience delivering full stack applications using modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks, with React or similar on the frontend.
  • Proven backend engineering capability in Python and or Node.js, including API design and service-oriented architectures.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI solutions using large language models and related frameworks.
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms and modern deployment patterns such as containerisation, serverless, and CI/CD.
  • Strong data fundamentals, including SQL, data modelling, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
  • Ability to lead technically, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and operate confidently in ambiguous problem spaces.

How to Apply
If you are a senior full stack engineer with a passion for applied AI and technical leadership, apply now to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.

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Senior Data Analyst

London

£65000 - £75000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Data Analyst
London – hybrid 3x a week

Up to £75,000

This is a high-impact analytics role for someone who wants to influence commercial decision-making at scale. You will sit close to senior leadership, working on insight-led projects that directly shape strategy across customer, marketing, and commercial performance. The role offers genuine autonomy, exposure to complex data, and the opportunity to drive meaningful business outcomes.

The Company
They are a fast-growing, consumer-focused organisation that has undergone significant digital and data transformation in recent years. Backed by private equity, they continue to invest heavily in analytics as a core driver of growth. Their data function is well established, highly regarded in the market, and recognised for delivering commercially impactful insight. With strong year-on-year performance, analytics plays a central role in how the business operates.

The Role

  • Deliver hands-on, commercial customer analytics that influence senior stakeholders across the business
  • Lead customer segmentation and behavioural analysis to understand usage, value, and lifecycle trends
  • Analyse churn, retention, loyalty, and customer lifetime value to inform strategic decisions
  • Evaluate marketing and campaign performance, measuring ROI and efficiency
  • Work with large, complex datasets to uncover insight across customer, product, and commercial performance
  • Present clear recommendations, actions, and next steps to senior non-technical audiences
  • Contribute to insight-led projects exploring new data sources such as location, device, and customer service data

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in customer analytics within a consumer or subscription-based environment
  • Advanced SQL skills, including querying large datasets and joining multiple data sources
  • Experience using Python and or R for analysis and insight generation
  • Strong understanding of churn, retention, loyalty, CLTV, and marketing analytics
  • Confident communicator able to influence senior stakeholders with clear, actionable insight
  • Proactive, curious, and comfortable working autonomously in a hands-on role

What They Offer

  • Exposure to senior commercial and leadership stakeholders
  • Ongoing investment in data and analytics with scope for future growth and progression
  • Opportunity to shape analytics direction within a highly regarded data function

How to Apply
Apply now to explore this opportunity further and discuss how your analytics experience could make a real commercial imp

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Paid Social and Programmatic Executive

Hemel Hempstead

£30000 - £40000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

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Paid Social and Programmatic Executive
Hemel Hempstead – hybrid 3x a week
Up to £40,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing performance marketing team during a period of continued digital investment and transformation. The role offers a strong balance between hands-on programmatic delivery and exposure to paid social, with clear ownership, visibility, and the chance to influence performance at scale.

The Company
They are a well-established consumer-focused organisation operating at national scale, with a strong digital presence and a growing emphasis on data-led marketing. The business has invested heavily in technology and digital capability to enhance customer experience and commercial performance. Operating as part of a wider group, they offer stability alongside a progressive and modern marketing culture.

The Role
You will sit within the performance marketing function, working closely with senior specialists and stakeholders across the business. The role has a core focus on programmatic activity, with additional exposure to paid social campaigns.
Responsibilities include:

  • Creating, activating, and optimising programmatic display and video campaigns, with some involvement in paid social
  • Managing day-to-day campaign performance, reporting against KPIs, and delivering actionable insights
  • Working closely with senior team members to evaluate results and recommend performance improvements
  • Collaborating with creative and brand stakeholders to ensure high-quality, data-informed creative execution
  • Supporting the delivery of high-quality, qualified traffic through effective performance marketing activity

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in programmatic marketing, with exposure to paid social
  • Confidence working with data to interpret performance and inform optimisation decisions
  • Experience managing campaigns against performance and budget targets
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly to stakeholders
  • Highly organised, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

What They Offer

  • The opportunity to develop across programmatic and paid social within a specialist performance team
  • Clear exposure to senior stakeholders and long-term progression opportunities within performance marketing

How to Apply
If you are looking to develop your career in programmatic and paid social marketing within a data-driven environment, apply today to find out more.

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Data Analyst

€60000 - €61000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Nederland

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Data Analyst

Rotterdam Hybrid minimum three days in the office

Salary €65,000 to €80,000

This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible Data Analyst role where your work directly shapes business priorities and decision making. Joining during a period of change, you will have real ownership of projects, strong exposure to stakeholders, and the chance to influence how data is used across the organisation.

The Company

They are a growing organisation operating in a dynamic market, with data playing an increasingly central role in strategic decisions. The business values clear communication, ownership, and practical insights over theoretical analysis. With a lean data setup, they offer a collaborative environment where your impact will be felt quickly.

The Role

  • Deliver actionable insights through business intelligence and data analysis
  • Own and manage analytical projects from requirement gathering through to delivery
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand needs, set priorities, and challenge assumptions
  • Build and maintain SQL based data models feeding Power BI dashboards
  • Balance larger strategic initiatives with shorter, ad hoc analytical requests

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience using SQL for analysis and data modelling
  • Proven capability building insights and dashboards in Power BI
  • Confident stakeholder management and the ability to translate data into clear recommendations
  • Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of priorities
  • Experience operating in a lean or fast moving environment
  • Exposure to Python or advanced analytics is beneficial but not essential

What They Offer

  • Salary between €65,000 and €80,000 depending on experience
  • Hybrid working with flexibility and a strong on site culture in Rotterdam
  • A role with genuine ownership and visibility across the business
  • Career development as the data function continues to evolve

How to Apply

Apply now to explore this Data Analyst opportunity and discuss how your skills could make an impact.

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