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)

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Lead Advertising & Creative Services Manager

$45 - $50

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
California

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Lead Advertising & Creative Services Manager

  • Hourly Rate DOE
  • 1 Year Contract
  • Remote – Must be based in the US

Job Summary

A leading media and entertainment organisation is seeking a Lead Advertising & Creative Services Manager with experience in customer retention marketing and agency collaboration. This role focuses on developing and delivering creative campaigns targeted at existing customers, with the goal of increasing loyalty, reducing churn, and driving revenue.

The successful candidate will provide strategic creative direction, manage external agency partners, and work cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure campaigns are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to brand and business objectives.


Key Responsibilities

  • Act as the main point of contact for internal stakeholders and external agency partners on designated projects

  • Build strong cross-functional relationships to align creative outputs with business goals and performance metrics

  • Manage end-to-end delivery of customer-focused creative campaigns, including:

    • Reviewing briefs and defining creative requirements
    • Briefing and guiding agency partners
    • Managing project timelines and ensuring deadlines are met
    • Reviewing and approving creative assets and messaging
    • Presenting campaign concepts and progress to senior stakeholders
    • Consolidating and delivering feedback to agencies
    • Overseeing quality control throughout the project lifecycle
    • Ensuring final delivery meets agreed specifications and budget
  • Maintain accurate project documentation, including:

    • Archiving completed campaigns and tracking historical activity
    • Monitoring usage rights and renewals
    • Capturing and sharing campaign performance insights and learnings
  • Manage campaign budgets in line with agreed scopes of work

  • Proactively identify risks, resolve project challenges, and implement process improvements and best practices


Experience Required

  • At least 3 years’ experience in advertising, creative services, or marketing project management
  • Proven ability to manage external creative agencies from concept through to final delivery
  • Experience presenting creative work and campaign strategy to senior stakeholders
  • Strong multitasking skills with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Background in retention marketing with a focus on customer loyalty, churn reduction, and revenue growth

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or a related discipline (preferred)

Key Skills

  • Strong understanding of creative processes, formats, and multi-channel delivery
  • Excellent project management and organisational skills with high attention to detail
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication abilities
  • Ability to problem-solve and independently resolve project challenges
  • Collaborative team player with a proactive approach

Systems & Tools

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint and Excel)
  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Smartsheet
  • Experience with design collaboration tools (e.g. Figma)
  • Knowledge of content and asset management platforms (e.g. CMS and document sharing systems)

Working Arrangement

  • Fully remote role, open to candidates based within the United States

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Forward Deployed Engineer

London

£80000 - £130000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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AI Forward Deployed Engineer
Remote (UK) | £80,000 to £130,000 base salary

This is a rare opportunity to join an AI-first TechBio company at a pivotal stage of growth, where you will sit at the intersection of advanced machine learning, real-world deployment, and enterprise customer impact. The role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems in live customer environments and turning those solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

The Company

They are an AI-driven TechBio organisation focused on transforming pharmaceutical research and development. Their platform applies natural language processing, large language models, and knowledge graph technology to structure insights from vast volumes of scientific literature. Working with enterprise pharmaceutical customers globally, they enable faster and more informed drug discovery through robust, production-grade AI systems. The business operates as a fully remote organisation with a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary team.

The Role

As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring enterprise customers successfully integrate and deploy the company’s AI platform into their environments. You will balance hands-on customer delivery with contributions to the core engineering platform.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading end-to-end technical delivery for enterprise customer integrations, from early trials through to production deployment
  • Designing and implementing AI-driven integrations, including LLM, agent-based, and retrieval workflows
  • Partnering with customer technical teams to understand requirements and deliver robust, scalable solutions
  • Translating recurring customer needs into productised features within the core platform
  • Collaborating closely with internal engineering, data science, and commercial teams to shape solution design and delivery

Your Skills and Experience

You will bring strong commercial experience delivering AI or machine learning systems into production, combined with the ability to work confidently in customer-facing environments.

Key capabilities include:

  • Hands-on experience deploying NLP or LLM-powered features in production environments
  • Strong knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation systems, retrieval and recommendation architectures, and vector databases
  • Experience building, debugging, and maintaining end-to-end LLM workflows
  • Familiarity with graph databases and modern cloud data warehouses
  • Confidence designing integration architectures across APIs, data platforms, and enterprise infrastructure
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly

What They Offer

  • Base salary between £80,000 and £130,000
  • Fully remote working environment
  • Exposure to enterprise-scale AI deployments within the life sciences sector
  • The opportunity to influence both customer outcomes and the evolution of a core AI platform
  • A collaborative, high-impact environment with clear scope for professional growth

How to Apply

If you are excited by customer-facing AI engineering roles and want to work on meaningful, production-grade machine learning systems, apply now to learn more about this opportunity

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Lead Product Manager (FinTech)

New York

$180000 - $220000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
New York

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Lead Product Manager (FinTech)

Location: New York, NY (Remote)
Pay: $180k – $220k Base & Equity


Overview

A high-growth enterprise SaaS company in the wealth technology space is seeking a senior Product Management individual contributor to lead onboarding initiatives. This role plays a critical leadership function during a period of organisational transition and will have a strong influence on product strategy, execution, and cross‑functional alignment. The successful candidate will bring deep domain expertise, strong product instincts, and the ability to operate with ownership at a senior level.


Responsibilities

  • Own the vision, strategy, and execution of onboarding-related product initiatives
  • Drive product discovery, roadmap definition, and delivery as a senior individual contributor
  • Act as a point of leadership and stability during a planned leadership transition
  • Partner closely with engineering, design, and go‑to‑market teams to deliver high‑impact product experiences
  • Develop a deep understanding of the onboarding journey and identify opportunities for optimisation and differentiation
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to other product managers while remaining hands-on
  • Ensure continuity of product decision‑making, delivery momentum, and stakeholder alignment

Must‑Have Qualifications

  • Significant experience as a Senior or Lead Product Manager within B2B SaaS or wealth/financial technology
  • Proven ownership of onboarding, activation, or customer lifecycle products
  • Strong background in product discovery, roadmap ownership, and execution
  • Experience partnering cross‑functionally with engineering and design teams
  • Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor without people management responsibility
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

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Business Analyst

London

£480 - £550

+ Data Management & Governance

Contract
London

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BUSINESS ANALYST

£480 to £550 per day

OUTSIDE IR35

LONDON

HYBRID: 1 TO 2 DAYS A WEEK IN OFFICE

3 MONTH PROJECT

IMMEDIATE START

Company

A global strategy consulting firm working with business leaders and private equity firms to solve high-stakes challenges across M&A, marketing, sustainability, and performance improvement.

THE ROLE

The role is to define how investment activity should be classified, captured, and reported so it can be built into the new Finance Data Warehouse, replacing the current fragile Excel‑based process with clear, build‑ready requirements for the Finance Systems team. Document current reporting processes, KPI’s, data sources and gaps

  • Define how investment reporting will scale into the new finance data warehouse
  • Define a tactical classification and data capture approach that integrates into the FDW
  • Act as a middle point between Finance stakeholders and the finance systems team
  • Produce clear, unambiguous documentation for developers to build from
  • Work with chaotic, inconsistent data environment and bring structure to it.
  • Support senior internal stakeholders

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Business Analyst will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong Business Analyst background with requirements gathering documentation and stakeholder management
  • Experience with Power Query and Alteryx (able to read and understand, coding is a plus)
  • Background in financial services, consulting or similar professional services.
  • Finance domain knowledge, comfortable discussing P&L, cash flow, KPIs, business plan assumptions, actuals tracking, and variance.
  • Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Please send your CV if you think you are suitable for this role

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Business Analyst – Finance Reporting

London

£500 - £600

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Business Analyst – Finance Reporting & BI Transformation

* Initial 6-month contract
* Outside IR35
* £500-600pd
* London – 2 days per week onsite

Overview:

A global strategy consulting business is looking for a hands-on Business Analyst to support the ongoing evolution of its finance systems and reporting capability.

The role will focus on improving and standardising finance reporting processes across the business, working closely with finance, reporting and technology teams to rationalise the current reporting estate, improve stakeholder adoption, and support the move towards a more modern Power BI/Fabric environment.

This is a highly stakeholder-facing role within a global environment, supporting users across multiple regions from the US West Coast through to Australia.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Gather and document business and reporting requirements end-to-end
  • Create functional and technical specifications for reporting solutions
  • Assess the current reporting estate to identify overlap, duplication, and gaps
  • Help define reporting standards, frameworks, and best practices
  • Support the design and delivery of scalable Power BI reporting solutions
  • Work with SQL databases and support the transition towards Microsoft Fabric
  • Collaborate closely with the BI Architect and wider technology teams
  • Support testing and validation activities across reporting and test environments before production release
  • Deliver clear progress updates and communicate effectively with global stakeholders
  • Support rollout and adoption of reporting solutions across the business
  • Work alongside offshore BI and reporting resources

Required Experience:

  • Strong Power BI reporting and dashboard experience
  • Strong SQL capability and understanding of reporting/data structures
  • Experience gathering and documenting business requirements
  • Experience creating technical specifications and delivery documentation
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience working within finance reporting, management reporting or FP&A environments
  • Experience working within consultancy, professional services, finance systems or financial services environments
  • Comfortable working in global, fast-paced stakeholder environments
  • Experience coordinating with offshore delivery teams
  • Strong governance, UAT and documentation capability
  • Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives forward

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Product Manager

London

£90000 - £110000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Manager, Payments and Cards
London, Hybrid
Salary up to £110,00

This is an opportunity to take ownership of high impact payments and card products within a large scale consumer mobile platform. You will shape how millions of users experience digital payments, working on complex, regulated products while maintaining a strong focus on usability and performance.

The Company
They are a global consumer technology business operating a widely used mobile application with a growing ecosystem of digital services. Payments are a strategic priority, with a rapidly expanding wallet and card offering live across multiple international markets. The organisation combines the pace of a scale up with the reach and stability of a well established global platform.

The Role

  • Own and develop card based product features including virtual cards and card lifecycle management
  • Lead the design and optimisation of card to card payments and transaction journeys
  • Drive integrations with external payment platforms such as mobile wallets
  • Improve end to end payments experiences with a focus on security, scalability and performance
  • Monitor transaction success rates and use data to inform product decisions
  • Collaborate closely with engineering and cross functional teams across distributed locations
  • Support the continued rollout and scaling of payments products across new markets

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial product management experience within payments, fintech or card products
  • Proven ownership of payment flows, wallets or card functionality in a consumer facing product
  • Experience working on high usage B2C mobile applications
  • Solid understanding of card issuing, transaction flows and payments journeys
  • Data driven approach to product development and performance optimisation
  • Comfortable working in regulated environments and alongside compliance requirements

How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this product management opportunity in payments and cards.

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AI Forward Deployed Engineer – knowledge graphs, LLMs and RAG

England

£90000 - £130000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
England

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AI Forward Deployed Engineer – Knowledge graphs, LLMs and RAG
Remote, UK. £90,000 to £130,000 base salary.

If you enjoy taking advanced AI systems out of the lab and into real-world enterprise environments, this role gives you the chance to do exactly that. You will work directly with highly technical customers, shaping how cutting edge NLP, knowledge graph, and LLM technology is deployed at scale, while still remaining deeply hands-on as an engineer.

The Company
They are a Series A, AI-first TechBio organisation building data science products that support faster and more informed drug discovery. Their platform processes vast volumes of scientific literature and structures it into high value, production-ready datasets used by global pharmaceutical organisations. The business operates fully remotely and brings together expertise across engineering, data science, and biomedical domains.

The Role

  • You will lead technical delivery for enterprise customers, owning implementations from initial trials through to production deployments.
  • You will work closely with customer engineering and data science teams to understand their environments and design robust AI driven integrations.
  • You will design and build solutions using retrieval systems, RAG architectures, agent based workflows, and APIs.
  • You will contribute to technical scoping during pre-sales, helping shape feasible and scalable solutions.
  • You will identify recurring customer needs and feed these back into the core platform, supporting productisation.
  • Alongside customer work, you will contribute directly to internal platform and engineering initiatives.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience deploying NLP or LLM powered systems into production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with retrieval augmented generation, vector databases, and retrieval or recommendation systems.
  • Practical experience building, debugging, and operating end to end LLM workflows.
  • A solid engineering mindset with comfort working across data platforms, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Exposure to graph databases and modern data warehouses is highly beneficial.
  • Confidence working in customer facing settings, explaining technical trade-offs and collaborating across technical and commercial stakeholders.

What They Offer

  • Base salary between £90,000 and £130,000, depending on experience.
  • Fully remote working with flexibility and autonomy.
  • The opportunity to work on high impact AI products used by leading enterprise customers.
  • Clear scope to influence product direction and grow alongside a scaling, venture backed business.
  • Additional benefits and development support within a collaborative, engineering led culture.

How to Apply
Apply to discuss how your experience aligns with this AI Forward Deployed Engineer opportunity and the impact you could make.

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Senior Data Scientist

London

£60000 - £75000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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Senior Data Scientist

Salary
£60,000-£75,000 + bonus

Location + work pattern
London or Leicester | Hybrid working (1 day per week in the office)

THE COMPANY

  • A well-established UK general insurance provider with a strong reputation for advanced analytics and data-driven decision making.
  • The business operates at scale across multiple personal lines products and continues to invest significantly in modern data platforms and machine learning.
  • Data science sits at the core of how the organisation prices risk and drives commercial strategy.

THE ROLE

This is a senior individual contributor role within an innovative pricing function, focused on developing and evolving advanced predictive models. You will work on complex, high-impact modelling problems and help shape the next generation of pricing approaches.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in:

  • Building and enhancing pricing and risk models using large, complex and messy datasets.
  • Developing predictive and residual models to better understand expected versus actual outcomes.
  • Exploring novel data sources, including geospatial and alternative datasets, to improve customer selection and pricing accuracy.
  • Supporting the progression of existing models from early versions into more mature, production-ready solutions.
  • Mentoring junior team members and contributing to best practice across the data science community.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong experience in predictive modelling using Python and SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with modern machine learning techniques such as gradient boosting methods.
  • Proven ability to work with large-scale, complex datasets and translate ambiguity into clear analytical approaches.
  • Experience deploying models into production environments within a cloud-based platform.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and support less experienced colleagues.

THE BENEFITS

  • Performance-related bonus.
  • Car allowance.
  • Private medical insurance and health & wellbeing support.
  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy or sell additional days.
  • Pension contribution with employer matching.
  • Life assurance, income protection and additional optional benefits.

THE PROCESS

  • Initial 30-minute interview focused on experience and approach.
  • Technical case study with presentation and discussion.
  • Competency-based interview covering leadership and delivery scenarios.
  • Final-stage interview focused on team fit and senior stakeholder engagement.

HOW TO APPLY

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