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 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.

 

Full Stack Engineer (Python and React)

London

£70000 - £180000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
London

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Full Stack Engineer

LegalTech / GenAI

London (5 days onsite)

Between £70,000 – £180,000 + Equity

The Company

My client are a fast‑growing legal‑tech startup applying Generative AI to the entire IP lifecycle – patents, trademarks, and legal documentation. They build real production systems used by 400+ IP teams globally, including top law firms and major enterprises.

Why they stand out:

  • Series B funded, £55m raised
  • 10x+ ARR growth in the last year, now eight figures
  • Already profitable
  • Scaling rapidly: ~20 → 60 people in London this year

What You’ll Work On

  • AI‑powered legal drafting & document editing
  • Vector search & citation systems
  • Patent litigation tools (claim charts, large‑scale analysis)
  • Professional‑grade legal workflows (not just chat UIs)

The Role

They’re hiring senior Full Stack Engineers, open to backend‑ or frontend‑leaning profiles.

  • Build and scale core backend foundations
  • Design APIs and data systems for global scale
  • Work closely with founders on product direction
  • Own complex UIs for AI‑driven legal workflows
  • Heavy work with WYSIWYG editors (TinyMCE / CKEditor)
  • Still hands‑on with backend to deliver end‑to‑end features

What They’re Looking For

  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript and React
  • Solid full‑stack fundamentals
  • Top academic background preferred
  • Comfortable moving fast in a startup environment
  • Happy being in the office 5 days a week

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Data Engineer (GCP/DBT)

Cardiff

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Cardiff

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DATA ENGINEER

Up to £70,000 + BENEFITS
UK (Remote‑first)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth education technology business where you can take ownership of building and scaling a modern data platform that underpins decision‑making across the entire organisation.

THE COMPANY:

The business is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in data to create a single, trusted view of performance across marketing, product and operations.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of a modern data platform. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing the end‑to‑end data platform
  • Building and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines into BigQuery
  • Designing and maintaining analytics‑ready dbt models
  • Partnering closely with the BI Analyst to support company‑wide reporting and self‑serve analytics

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Google BigQuery/GCP (3+ years’ hands‑on experience)
  • Data ingestion tools such as Fivetran
  • dbt Cloud and analytics‑ready data modelling

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Data Engineer (GCP/DBT)

Glasgow

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Glasgow

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DATA ENGINEER

Up to £70,000 + BENEFITS
UK (Remote‑first)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth education technology business where you can take ownership of building and scaling a modern data platform that underpins decision‑making across the entire organisation.

THE COMPANY:

The business is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in data to create a single, trusted view of performance across marketing, product and operations.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of a modern data platform. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing the end‑to‑end data platform
  • Building and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines into BigQuery
  • Designing and maintaining analytics‑ready dbt models
  • Partnering closely with the BI Analyst to support company‑wide reporting and self‑serve analytics

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Google BigQuery/GCP (3+ years’ hands‑on experience)
  • Data ingestion tools such as Fivetran
  • dbt Cloud and analytics‑ready data modelling

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Data Engineer (GCP/DBT)

Birmingham

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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DATA ENGINEER

Up to £70,000 + BENEFITS
UK (Remote‑first)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth education technology business where you can take ownership of building and scaling a modern data platform that underpins decision‑making across the entire organisation.

THE COMPANY:

The business is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in data to create a single, trusted view of performance across marketing, product and operations.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of a modern data platform. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing the end‑to‑end data platform
  • Building and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines into BigQuery
  • Designing and maintaining analytics‑ready dbt models
  • Partnering closely with the BI Analyst to support company‑wide reporting and self‑serve analytics

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Google BigQuery/GCP (3+ years’ hands‑on experience)
  • Data ingestion tools such as Fivetran
  • dbt Cloud and analytics‑ready data modelling

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

To Apply for this Job Click Here

Data Engineer (GCP/DBT)

Manchester

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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DATA ENGINEER

Up to £70,000 + BENEFITS
UK (Remote‑first)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth education technology business where you can take ownership of building and scaling a modern data platform that underpins decision‑making across the entire organisation.

THE COMPANY:

The business is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in data to create a single, trusted view of performance across marketing, product and operations.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of a modern data platform. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing the end‑to‑end data platform
  • Building and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines into BigQuery
  • Designing and maintaining analytics‑ready dbt models
  • Partnering closely with the BI Analyst to support company‑wide reporting and self‑serve analytics

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Google BigQuery/GCP (3+ years’ hands‑on experience)
  • Data ingestion tools such as Fivetran
  • dbt Cloud and analytics‑ready data modelling

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Senior Insight Analyst

Stockport

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Stockport, Greater Manchester

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Senior Insight Analyst

Stockport (Hybrid – 2x Days a Week)

£40,000 – £50,000

THE COMPANY

This is an opportunity to join a well-established, customer-focused business with a strong data culture, following an internal promotion within the analytics team; you’ll sit within a high-impact Customer & Commercial Analytics function, working closely with Digital, Marketing, and Contact Centre teams to drive performance through insight!

THE ROLE

This is a commercially focused analytics role centred around the end-to-end customer journey: from initial lead through to conversion. You’ll analyse how customers interact across channels, identify drop-off points, and deliver actionable insights that directly influence marketing spend, contact strategy, and sales performance; this role blends deep-dive analysis, stakeholder engagement, and real-time performance reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Analyse the customer journey from enquiry/ad response through to conversion
  • Deliver sales funnel reporting (conversion rates, drop-offs, engagement trends)
  • Evaluate marketing performance & ROI across channels
  • Monitor and optimise contact centre performance (sales-focused metrics)
  • Identify customer pain points and opportunities to improve CX and conversion
  • Translate stakeholder questions into clear analytical outputs and recommendations
  • Support real-time decision-making with data-driven insights

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Strong SQL skills
  • Proven experience delivering insights in a commercial / customer-focused environment
  • Strong stakeholder engagement; proven ability to influence and tell a clear story with data
  • Experience analysing funnels, conversions, or marketing performance
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the apply link

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Senior Analytics Engineer (dbt & snowflake)

Cardiff

£70000 - £75000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Cardiff

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SENIOR ANALYTICS ENGINEER

£70,000-£75,000 + BENEFITS

PIMARILY REMOTE

An opportunity to join a popular telecoms company expanding into new markets!

THE COMPANY:

Over the past few years, this telecoms company has expanded. With a rich data set, they have lots of data to work with and are keen to bring in a Senior Analytics Engineer to help with data modelling and transformation.

THE ROLE:

A remote working Senior Analytics Engineer will need to:

  • Design and build data models
  • Support implementation and maintenance of ELT pipelines
  • Ingest data into Snowflake
  • Transform data using DBT
  • Empower teams to make data driven teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Senior Analytics Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Ability and experience interacting with key stakeholder
  • Data modelling techniques – e.g. DataVault, Kimball etc.
  • Strong experience in SQL/Python
  • Data Cloud Tech experience – e.g. Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks
  • Data transformation experience using DBT

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £75,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics

San Francisco

$200000 - $250000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Job Title: Staff Data Scientist

Location: Remote (US Only)

Salary: $200-250k base + equity

About the Company:

Join a mission-focused organization dedicated to revolutionizing global education by providing innovative learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom. The company’s app is widely used across U.S. schools and impacts millions of children worldwide.

Their team is made up of talented and creative professionals with backgrounds in education and top consumer internet companies such as Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, and Uber. They cultivate an environment where top talent can thrive. If you’re eager to work with some of the best minds in the industry, we encourage you to apply!

Position Summary:

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be a key player in developing the world’s leading consumer education platform. You will be part of a high-achieving, cross-functional team working closely with product, engineering, and design to shape the company’s strategic direction and tackle challenging product and business issues.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Utilize data-driven insights to inform decisions and drive our brand toward new milestones
  • Work collaboratively with various teams to discover user insights and pinpoint essential product improvements
  • Design and analyze AB/multivariate tests to derive actionable conclusions that boost user engagement
  • Lead data science projects, influencing strategic choices and addressing complex problems

Your Skills and Experience:

  • 8+ years of experience in data science and product analytics
  • Experience in the consumer technology sector
  • Proficient in writing efficient SQL queries for large datasets
  • Skilled in designing and analyzing A/B tests
  • Strong understanding of growth strategies for consumer products
  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strategic thinker with a keen focus on product development
  • Innovative approach to using data to drive product strategy

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