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.

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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)

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£70000 - £85000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst
London | Up to £85,000 plus equity

This is a high-impact analytics role sitting at the heart of growth and marketing decision-making within a fast-paced, product-led environment. You will work on complex attribution and customer journey challenges, with real influence over how marketing investment is measured and optimised, particularly across a key international growth market.

The Company
They are a highly data-driven digital business operating in consumer financial products. The organisation is well established, commercially successful, and known for its strong analytics culture. Teams are lean, collaborative, and focused on using data to drive measurable outcomes. The business is continuing to scale internationally, with analytics playing a central role in that growth.

The Role

  • Partner closely with growth and marketing teams to support performance analysis and strategic decision-making.
  • Analyse marketing spend across digital channels to assess effectiveness and return on investment.
  • Track and evaluate customer acquisition sources to understand channel contribution and efficiency.
  • Develop and improve attribution approaches, including multi-touch attribution, while accounting for privacy and tracking limitations.
  • Optimise marketing and application funnels by identifying drop-offs and conversion opportunities.
  • Analyse end-to-end customer journeys across multiple financial products and recommend alternative pathways where appropriate.
  • Build models to answer complex commercial questions, such as the incremental impact of new channels or campaigns.
  • Apply statistical and experimental techniques to support testing, measurement, and business decisions.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial marketing analytics experience within a consumer-facing digital environment.
  • Advanced capability in SQL and Python, with Python used for modelling and analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with attribution modelling and evaluating marketing effectiveness.
  • Experience analysing complex customer journeys and funnel performance.
  • Comfortable working with experimentation, uplift measurement, and statistical techniques.
  • Confident communicator, able to translate analysis into clear, actionable insight for senior stakeholders.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £85,000.
  • Equity as part of the overall package.
  • A role with genuine ownership and exposure to senior growth and marketing leadership.
  • A high-performing, data-led environment with strong standards and clear impact.
  • Hybrid working, with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday based in a London office.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply to learn more about the role and the wider analytics team.

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Pricing Analyst

London

£50000 - £67000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Pricing Analyst

London (Hybrid, 2 days in office) | Up to 67000 plus benefits

This is a great opportunity to join a fast‑growing ecommerce business where pricing, operational efficiency and customer experience sit at the heart of every decision. You will work across supply, operations and commercial teams to optimise pricing strategies and improve performance across a high‑volume, fast‑moving environment.

The Company

They are a purpose‑driven consumer business with a global footprint and a strong focus on sustainability, operational excellence and customer value. With a mix of marketplace and direct‑to‑consumer revenue streams, they are scaling rapidly and investing heavily in analytics, experimentation and process improvement. The organisation operates internationally with significant warehouse operations, multiple office locations and an ambitious growth roadmap.

The Role

As Pricing Analyst, you will:
* Lead analysis that informs pricing strategy across supply, operations and commercial functions.
* Assess stock availability, supplier behaviour and channel performance to influence pricing and trading decisions.
* Support optimisation across fulfilment, warehousing and cost‑to‑serve, including detailed analysis of postage and shipping costs.
* Run A/B tests and controlled experiments to understand the impact of pricing and operational changes.
* Build models and reporting in SQL, Python and BI tools to support decision making.
* Partner with senior stakeholders to translate complex analytics into clear recommendations.
* Contribute to transformation and change initiatives, helping evolve pricing approaches as the business scales.
* Mentor at least one analyst, supporting project delivery and analytical development.

Your Skills and Experience

You will bring:
* Strong commercial experience in pricing, supply chain, operations or inventory analytics.
* Hands‑on technical skills across SQL, Python and modern BI or visualisation tools.
* Experience with A/B testing, experimentation and data‑driven optimisation.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify technical insight for senior, non‑technical audiences.
* A proactive, practical approach with the willingness to be hands‑on when required.
* Comfort working in a fast‑paced environment with ongoing change and evolving processes.
* A customer‑first mindset and ability to consider customer impact in pricing and operational recommendations.

What They Offer

* Salary up to 67000 plus benefits.
* Hybrid working with two days per week in the London office.
* Exposure to a broad range of operational and commercial problems within a scaling consumer business.
* Clear pathways to expand into supply, operations, or broader commercial analytics depending on interests and performance.
* A collaborative culture that values experimentation, ownership and continuous improvement.

How to Apply

If you are excited by the opportunity to shape pricing strategy within a fast‑growing consumer environment, apply now to learn more.

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UX Designer – Personalisation & Decisioning – Contract

London

£400 - £500

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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UX Designer – Personalisation & Decisioning – Contract
AI Start Up
London
£400-£500 per day – Outside IR35

This contract offers the opportunity to shape how AI-driven personalisation and decisioning experiences are designed and delivered at scale. You will play a hands-on role within a fast-moving programme focused on improving both customer-facing journeys and internal campaign tooling, with a strong emphasis on speed, usability, and commercial impact.

The Company

They are a growing AI and personalisation consultancy and platform business working at the intersection of data, MarTech, and product delivery. The organisation partners with enterprise teams to design and build AI-enabled customer experience solutions that move quickly from concept to production. Their culture is delivery-focused, collaborative, and oriented around solving real-world problems through practical application of AI and data. The environment suits designers who enjoy pace, ownership, and close alignment with engineering and product teams.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Design UX for personalisation and decisioning systems, including next-best-action experiences across digital channels
  • Redesign campaign and journey workflows to reduce manual effort and improve scalability and usability
  • Translate complex AI, data, and decisioning logic into clear, intuitive user interfaces
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on user flows, email experiences, and product features in parallel with engineering delivery
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, business analysts, and product stakeholders to align UX with technical and commercial goals
  • Establish consistent UX patterns for personalisation across web, app, and CRM touchpoints

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience designing UX for digital products, particularly within personalisation, CRM, or MarTech contexts
  • Proven ability to simplify complex systems and workflows into clear, efficient user experiences
  • Exposure to decisioning or next-best-action frameworks and tools within enterprise environments
  • Comfortable working at pace in ambiguous, scale-up or consultancy-style settings
  • Confident collaborating with engineering and product teams on build-ready designs
  • Practical, delivery-focused mindset with an understanding of commercial outcomes

How to Apply

If you are a UX designer who enjoys hands-on delivery and shaping AI-driven personalisation experiences, please apply to learn more about this contract opportunity.

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Senior Customer Analyst

London

£60000 - £75000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Customer Analyst

London Hybrid (3 days office) | Up to £75,000 + Benefits

A fast-growing, PE-backed consumer business is looking for a commercially minded Senior Customer Analytics Analyst to join its expanding data function. Following significant investment in digital and data transformation, the business has built a high-performing analytics team that plays a central role in driving commercial growth and customer strategy.

This is a hands-on role focused on customer insight and behavioural analytics, working closely with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Commercial, Finance, and Technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Customer segmentation and behavioural analysis

  • Churn, retention, loyalty, and CLTV analytics

  • Marketing and campaign performance analysis

  • Identifying customer trends, risks, and growth opportunities

  • Delivering actionable insights to influence strategic decisions

  • Working with large, complex datasets across multiple sources

Requirements

  • Strong SQL skills

  • Python and/or R experience preferred

  • Experience in customer analytics within telecoms, subscription, or consumer businesses

  • Strong understanding of churn, retention, loyalty, and customer behaviour

  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

  • Commercially focused with the ability to turn insight into action

Additional Information

  • Hybrid working model (3 days per week in office)

  • Central London office location

  • Up to £75,000 + benefits

  • High-growth environment with continued investment in analytics and data

  • Opportunity to work on strategic, insight-led projects with senior visibility

Ideal for someone proactive, curious, and passionate about using customer data to drive commercial impact. Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Experimentation Specialist

London

£35000 - £45000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Experimentation Specialist

London | Up to £45,000 plus benefits | Hybrid working

A great opportunity to join a growing experimentation function within a large, digital-first organisation. This role offers the chance to shape testing strategy, influence roadmaps, and make a measurable impact across multiple brands and digital touchpoints. You will be joining at an exciting stage as they build out a dedicated team.

The Company

They are a well-established, multi-brand retail group with a significant presence in ecommerce and digital product. The organisation is investing heavily in experimentation, data and insights to drive performance and enhance customer experience across their online platforms. With a fast-paced environment and a strong appetite for testing, they offer the chance to embed experimentation culture across a complex digital ecosystem.

The Role

  • Support the build of a centralised experimentation function.
  • Translate commercial objectives into experimentation roadmaps.
  • Prioritise tests based on value, business context and feasibility.
  • Lead ideation, design and end-to-end execution of A/B tests.
  • Partner with technical teams to ensure robust implementation.
  • Analyse test results and communicate insights to stakeholders.
  • Distinguish CRM experimentation from website CRO and support both areas.
  • Contribute to training and enablement across digital teams.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience running experimentation programmes.
  • Hands-on experience setting up and analysing A/B tests.
  • Understanding of experimentation principles, digital metrics and measurement.
  • Experience with platforms such as GA4, Optimizely or similar tools.
  • Ability to create, manage and communicate experimentation roadmaps.
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally within product, digital, CRM and tech teams.
  • Able to work independently and prioritise effectively.
  • Experience with user testing platforms is an advantage.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience.
  • Hybrid model with four days in the central London office.
  • 20 days holiday plus bank holidays.
  • Pension scheme with employer and employee contributions.
  • Access to wellbeing, health and financial support services.
  • Retail discounts across all brands.
  • Discounted gym membership and fitness support.
  • Employee recognition and reward schemes.
  • Internal learning platform with extensive training content.
  • Opportunities to progress as the experimentation function grows.

How to Apply
If you are passionate about experimentation and want to help shape a growing team, apply with your CV today.

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Product Manager – Automation (6-month FTC)

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Manager – Automation (6-Month FTC, Potential to Go Permanent)
London (Hybrid Working)
Up to £70,000 + standard benefits

About the Company
A high-growth, venture-backed fintech business is scaling its product and operations as it continues to expand its client offering. With strong momentum and recent investment, the company is focused on building innovative, technology-driven solutions within financial services.

The Role
This is a Product Manager role with a focus on automation and operational efficiency. You’ll work cross-functionally to identify opportunities to streamline processes and implement scalable solutions that improve how the business operates.

This role is hands-on and suited to someone who enjoys solving problems end-to-end, including designing and building solutions using a range of tools and technologies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify inefficiencies across internal workflows and processes

  • Design and implement automation solutions to improve scalability

  • Collaborate with teams across the business to understand challenges and deliver improvements

  • Build and optimise systems using low-code/no-code tools and other technologies

  • Track and communicate the impact of your work on business performance

What They’re Looking For

  • 3-5+ years’ experience in a product, operations, or similar role

  • Demonstrated experience improving processes or implementing automation

  • Hands-on, proactive approach with strong problem-solving skills

  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments

  • Able to clearly articulate the outcomes and impact of your work

Why Apply

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact initiatives in a scaling business

  • Broad exposure across multiple teams and functions

  • High level of ownership and autonomy

  • Potential for the role to become permanent

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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Senior Data Analyst – Players

Watford

£80000 - £95000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Watford, Hertfordshire

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Senior Data Analyst, Players
Hertfordshire| £80,000 to £95,000 base plus bonus | Hybrid, 3 days in office

This is a rare opportunity to step into a highly influential analytics role where insight directly shapes commercial strategy. You will operate at pace, work through ambiguity, and partner closely with senior leaders to solve some of the most complex and high impact player challenges in a regulated consumer environment.

The Company
They are a large scale, consumer facing organisation operating in a highly regulated market with a strong social purpose at its core. Data and analytics sit at the heart of decision making, with leadership actively championing a data led culture. Marketing and digital are major investment areas, supported by one of the largest and most sophisticated data estates in the UK.

The Role

  • Sit within a central Player Analytics team supporting digital, marketing, CRM and wider commercial initiatives
  • Lead ad hoc deep dive analysis to uncover player behaviour, commercial opportunities and risks
  • Partner with senior stakeholders to shape decisions around product launches, digital optimisation and innovation
  • Build commercial models to assess upside, cannibalisation and portfolio level impact
  • Evaluate new game mechanics and incentive structures, including financial impact and responsible play considerations
  • Design and analyse test and learn activity, measuring uplift and unintended consequences
  • Act as a trusted thought partner, anticipating questions and challenging assumptions with confidence

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial analytics experience in a fast paced, consumer or digital environment
  • Advanced SQL skills, with experience working in modern cloud data warehouses
  • Hands on experience with Python and or R for advanced analysis such as segmentation, cohorting or clustering
  • Confidence working with ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities
  • Ability to clearly articulate complex insights to senior, non technical stakeholders
  • Exposure to regulated industries and an understanding of responsible customer engagement is highly valued

What They Offer

  • Salary of £80,000 to £95,000 base plus a strong bonus structure with upside
  • Hybrid working pattern with three days per week in the Watford office
  • High trust, high autonomy role with direct exposure to senior decision makers
  • The chance to work on high impact projects with genuine social value
  • Excellent scope for professional growth in a data led organisation

How to Apply
Apply now to explore this opportunity further and discuss how your analytics expertise could make a real impact.

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Senior Product Manager

London

£70000 - £90000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Product Manager
Central London (2 to 3 days per week in office) | £80,000 to £100,000 base plus bonus and equity

This is a rare opportunity to take full ownership of a core product at a critical growth stage. You will join a small, ambitious business moving from an MVP into a scalable, client-facing platform, with real autonomy to shape strategy, delivery, and impact from day one.

The Company
They are a founder-led technology business operating at the intersection of data, networks, and decision-making. Their platform connects senior professionals with investment-focused clients, enabling highly curated, high-value introductions. With a growing international footprint and a strong commercial model, they are now investing heavily in product maturity, automation, and AI-driven capabilities.

The Role

  • Own the end-to-end product roadmap for a core platform, from discovery through to delivery
  • Translate business, client, and user needs into clear product requirements, epics, and priorities
  • Lead the shift from internal tooling to a scalable, self-serve, client-facing product
  • Reduce reliance on manual and spreadsheet-based workflows through automation and better UX
  • Partner closely with Engineering to unblock delivery, manage trade-offs, and address technical debt
  • Collaborate with Data teams to align product design with data quality, structure, and AI use cases
  • Identify and embed practical AI and LLM-driven functionality into workflows and the product experience
  • Act as the day-to-day product contact for commercial teams and senior stakeholders

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial product management experience within a technology or data-led environment
  • Proven ability to own and prioritise a product roadmap in a fast-moving, agile setting
  • Experience working closely with Engineering and Data teams to deliver complex platforms
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic trade-offs
  • Exposure to workflow automation, data products, or AI-enabled features
  • Clear communication skills and confidence working directly with senior stakeholders and users

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary of £80,000 to £100,000 depending on experience
  • Performance-related bonus and equity participation
  • High autonomy and visibility within a small, founder-led organisation
  • The chance to shape a product with genuine commercial and user impact
  • A collaborative environment with close alignment across Product, Engineering, and Data

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Senior Product Manager opportunity and how you could shape the next phase of a high-impact platform.

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