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AI Product Director
San Francisco
$275000 - $300000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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AI Product Director
$275,000-$300,000
Overview
A rapidly growing financial services organisation is seeking a senior AI product leader to help drive its enterprise AI transformation. This role will serve as a key strategic partner to an executive sponsor, translating business objectives into scalable AI solutions and leading delivery across multiple initiatives.
The successful candidate will combine strong product leadership, AI expertise, and execution discipline, overseeing product strategy, technical design, delivery governance, and stakeholder alignment. This position offers significant visibility with senior leadership and the opportunity to influence how AI capabilities are developed and adopted across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Product Design & AI Transformation
- Partner with executive leadership to convert business goals into actionable product and technical roadmaps.
- Conduct discovery sessions with subject matter experts to understand current processes and redesign them using AI-first approaches.
- Develop detailed product requirements, workflow designs, and implementation blueprints for AI-enabled solutions.
- Ensure regulatory, compliance, explainability, and governance requirements are incorporated into product designs from inception.
Product Leadership & Delivery Execution
- Serve as the primary product lead across multiple concurrent AI initiatives.
- Facilitate decision-making, prioritisation, and execution to maintain programme momentum.
- Coordinate efforts among data science, engineering, technology infrastructure, and business teams.
- Establish and maintain standards for documentation, process mapping, and product design reviews.
- Build, mentor, and manage a team of AI Product Managers.
Vendor & Engineering Governance
- Act as the primary liaison for external engineering and implementation partners.
- Evaluate technical proposals, architecture recommendations, and solution designs.
- Ensure development partners deliver against clearly defined specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Define measurable quality standards and testing requirements for milestone approvals.
Quality Assurance & Evaluation Frameworks
- Design evaluation frameworks for AI-enabled systems, including quality controls, review workflows, and performance measurement standards.
- Collaborate with technical teams to create benchmark datasets, validation criteria, and production readiness requirements.
- Support ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement of AI solutions.
Stakeholder Management & Change Leadership
- Drive alignment and adoption across business functions including operations, sales, finance, and risk-focused teams.
- Communicate programme status, risks, trade-offs, and performance metrics to senior stakeholders.
- Lead organisational change efforts and address adoption challenges associated with new technologies.
Required Qualifications
- 8-12 years of product management experience, including successful delivery of AI-enabled products from concept through production deployment.
- Experience contributing directly to AI solution design and product architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to gather business requirements from domain experts and convert them into scalable AI product strategies.
- Experience managing external technology or engineering partners through full delivery lifecycles.
- Proven success leading multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders across business and technical functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within financial services, lending, payments, fintech, or other regulated industries.
- Familiarity with compliance, auditability, and model governance requirements in regulated environments.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Track record delivering production-scale AI products in fast-paced, growth-oriented companies.
Skills & Competencies
- Advanced understanding of large language models (LLMs), AI agents, orchestration frameworks, model evaluation techniques, and AI risk mitigation practices.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks, governance standards, and explainable AI principles.
- Expertise in process discovery, workflow optimisation, and business transformation.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution.
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CRM Account Manager – Contract – Part-Time
London
£275 - £300
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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CRM Account Manager – Contract – Part-Time
Agency – Ecommerce
London – Remote
£275-£300 per day – Outside IR35
This is an opportunity to join a growing CRM agency supporting ambitious e-commerce brands. You’ll play a key role in managing client relationships, coordinating delivery, and helping the founder create more capacity to grow the business. The assignment offers genuine autonomy, long-term potential, and the chance to become a trusted extension of a specialist agency team.
The Company
They are a specialist CRM and lifecycle marketing agency focused on helping direct-to-consumer brands improve customer retention and long-term value. Working across email marketing, customer data, and customer lifecycle programmes, they support clients with strategic and executional CRM initiatives. With an established delivery team already in place, they are looking for a freelance Client Account Manager to take ownership of day-to-day client management and delivery coordination.
The Role and Deliverables
- Act as the primary day-to-day point of contact for a portfolio of e-commerce clients, building trusted relationships and managing ongoing communication.
- Coordinate internal delivery teams, including CRM specialists, copywriters and designers, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to brief.
- Manage campaign calendars, priorities, approvals and client requests, keeping work moving efficiently across multiple accounts.
- Communicate CRM and email marketing performance insights to clients, identifying issues and ensuring questions are answered confidently.
- Support campaign planning, new product launches, promotional activity and other client initiatives by translating requests into clear actions for the delivery team.
- Work closely with senior leadership to understand strategic priorities while independently managing day-to-day account operations and client expectations.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong client or account management experience within an agency environment.
- Experience managing relationships with D2C or e-commerce brands.
- Good working knowledge of Klaviyo and a solid understanding of email marketing, lifecycle marketing and customer retention.
- Confidence discussing campaign performance and responding to client questions in a professional and consultative manner.
- Proven ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Comfortable working independently, taking ownership and making sound decisions while recognising when escalation is required.
- Experience using project management platforms and collaborating with distributed teams in a remote environment.
How to Apply
If you have a strong background in agency-side account management and CRM and are looking for a flexible freelance opportunity with long-term potential, please apply with your latest CV.
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Lead Data Engineer
$175000 - $210000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentUSA
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Lead Data Engineer
Remote (USA) | $175,000-$210,000
The Role
We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across data engineering, architecture, and data platform development.
This is a Lead/Principal-level role where you will remain hands-on while setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and leading complex data initiatives from architecture through implementation.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines and data solutions.
- Lead data architecture, modeling, engineering standards, and best practices.
- Own data transformations and onboarding of new customer data sources.
- Troubleshoot complex customer-facing data issues.
- Improve existing systems through automation, scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Lead projects from architecture and planning through deployment and ongoing support.
- Evaluate technical options, communicate tradeoffs, and make recommendations.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to the technical roadmap.
- Manage and lead a small team of Data Engineers, supporting their development and performance.
What We’re Looking For
- 7-10+ years of experience, including 5+ years in Data Engineering.
- Strong SQL and Python skills.
- Deep experience with ELT, data pipelines, and large-scale data ingestion.
- Strong data modeling and architecture experience.
- Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
- Experience working with large datasets and varying data quality.
- Strong architectural mindset with the ability to make independent technical decisions.
- Experience improving or evolving existing data platforms.
- Previous experience managing a small Data Engineering team is required.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have: dbt, PostgreSQL, MPP databases, Astronomer/Dagster, healthcare data, and experience across multiple database technologies.
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Data Analyst
London
£350 - £400
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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6 Months | Remote | Outside IR35
The Role
We are looking for a hands-on Data Analyst to join a fast-growing consumer business, supporting a key product initiative focused on improving local partner discovery and engagement.
You will work with large and sometimes fragmented datasets to identify data quality issues, enrich existing records using external sources and APIs, and create reliable datasets for analysis and commercial activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse, cleanse, match and enrich partner and business data.
- Identify data quality issues, gaps, anomalies and root causes.
- Integrate and analyse external data sources through APIs, including location and business information.
- Build automated workflows for data enrichment, validation and reporting.
- Use AI/LLMs to support data matching, enrichment, validation and analysis.
- Design reporting frameworks for product experiments and A/B tests.
- Analyse product behaviour and experimentation through Amplitude.
- Build and maintain data models using SQL and dbt.
- Develop automated dashboards covering product, partner, campaign and data quality performance.
- Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for Product, CRM and commercial stakeholders.
Key Experience
- Strong SQL and data analysis skills.
- Hands-on dbt experience.
- Experience using Amplitude for product analytics and/or experimentation.
- Strong experience working with APIs and external datasets.
- Data quality, cleansing, enrichment, matching and validation experience.
- A/B testing and product experimentation.
- BI/dashboarding experience – Lightdash or similar.
- Experience automating data workflows and reporting.
- Practical exposure to AI/LLMs for analytics, data enrichment or automation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience within a marketplace, retail, e-commerce, subscription, membership, loyalty or other B2C environment would be particularly beneficial.
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CRO Lead
£35000 - £40000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentLancashire
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CRO Lead
Lancashire (Hybrid)
£35,000-£40,000
THE COMPANY
Great opportunity for an ambitious CRO Lead looking for a new challenge with a high-end luxury retailer; if you want to work on innovative digital projects for a fast-growing company, this is the role for you!
THE ROLE
In this CRO Lead role, you’ll have the chance to ideate & and analyse split tests, working across a range of digital platforms; you will use GA4, ContentSquare & AB Tasty
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience in the CRO/Analytics space
THE BENEFITS
- £35,000-£40,000
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page
KEY TERMS
IBM, Coremetrics, Google Analytics, GA, Omniture, SiteCatalyst, Adobe Analytics, Analyst, Web, Digital, Online, Website, Financial Services, Finance, A/B, Test, Split, Multivariate, MVT, Tracking, Code, Tagging, Tags, Insight, Client, Agency, Management, Strategy, CRO, Conversion, Optimisation, Optimizely, Test and Target, Adobe Target, Maxymiser, VWO, Visual Website Optimiser
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Customer Analyst
£40000 - £45000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentMerseyside
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Customer Analyst
Merseyside (Hybrid – 3x Days a Week in Office)
£40,000-£45,000
The Company
A leading UK retail business is investing heavily in its data function and is going through a significant period of growth across analytics and data engineering. The Customer Analyst will sit within the Customer & Digital Analytics function, working closely with the Ecommerce team to understand customer behaviour, online performance and opportunities to optimise the digital journey.
The Role
This is a commercially focused Customer Analytics position rather than a dashboarding-only role; you’ll act as a key analytical partner to the Ecommerce function, transforming business questions into analytical problems and using data to identify opportunities and improve customer and commercial performance.
You’ll work across areas including:
- Analysing customer behaviour and ecommerce performance
- Understanding customer journeys and online behaviour
- Investigating changes in basket value and conversion
- Identifying underperforming products and categories
- Analysing website funnels and customer journeys
- Evaluating website changes and UX improvements
- Measuring the commercial impact of data-driven decisions
- Developing automated BI and self-service reporting
- Building new analytical tools, reports and processes
- Presenting complex analysis as clear, commercially focused recommendations
You’ll work closely with senior Ecommerce and Marketing stakeholders, understanding their analytical requirements and helping shape strategic roadmaps.
Your Skills & Experience
- SQL/bigQuery experience
- Exposure to GA4 is highly desirable
The Benefits
- £40,000-£45,000 salary
How to Apply
If you’re a Customer, Ecommerce or Digital Analyst with strong SQL, BigQuery and GA4 experience and you’re looking for a role where your analysis can directly influence customer and commercial performance, apply now for immediate consideration
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Director of Analytics
$230000 - $230000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentCalifornia
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Director, Data Science & Analytics
Remote (East Coast Hours) | $230k Base + Bonus + Equity
Overview
We’re partnering with a high-growth technology business to hire a Director of Data Science & Analytics. This is a leadership role focused on building a high-performing team, increasing the impact of Data Science across the business, and partnering with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps.
The team is at an exciting stage of growth, with significant opportunity to shape culture, processes, and the future direction of the function.
Role Expectations
- Lead and develop a growing team of Data Scientists and Analytics professionals.
- Build a collaborative, cross-functional culture across Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to identify, prioritise, and deliver high-impact initiatives.
- Ensure analytical and data science solutions address real business challenges and drive measurable outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight without being a hands-on individual contributor.
- Deliver key projects including Lead Scoring and Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM).
- Help establish the Data Science function as a trusted strategic partner to the business.
Experience Must-Haves
- Previous experience managing and developing teams.
- Experience operating successfully in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior leaders and managing competing priorities.
- Demonstrated experience leading transformation, change, or function-building initiatives.
- Strong commercial experience supporting Marketing, Sales, GTM, or Customer Success teams.
- Ability to write SQL and confidently read/review Python code.
- Proven track record of delivering measurable business impact.
- Experience driving cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholder groups.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience across both Marketing and Sales functions.
- B2B SaaS background.
- Experience within subscription-based or recurring revenue businesses.
- Exposure to Lead Scoring, MMM, LTV, attribution, or other commercial modelling techniques.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude.
- Prior experience building or scaling Data Science capabilities within an organisation.
- Background in environments requiring both strategic leadership and operational execution.
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Lead BI Analyst – Tableau
London
£56000 - £56000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Lead Business Intelligence Analyst (Tableau Technical Lead)
London (Hybrid, approximately once per month in office)
Salary – £56,000 plus strong cost of living increases
This is a high-impact opportunity to take ownership of a growing Business Intelligence function within a globally recognised, purpose-driven organisation. You will play a key role in shaping how data is used across the business, driving the evolution from traditional reporting to a scalable, modern, and increasingly automated analytics environment.
The Company
They are an established international organisation operating within a knowledge-led, data-rich environment, supporting professionals and organisations globally. Data sits at the centre of their strategy, informing product development, decision-making, and customer outcomes.
The business is investing significantly in its data capabilities, with a clear focus on building scalable infrastructure, strengthening data governance, and enabling more advanced analytics. The central data team works in close collaboration with both internal stakeholders and external partners, creating a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
The Role
As Lead Business Intelligence Analyst, you will act as the technical authority for Tableau and take ownership of BI standards across the organisation. You will focus on improving the scalability, performance, and governance of the existing BI environment while supporting a major cloud migration programme.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading end-to-end Tableau development across Desktop, Prep, and Cloud
- Defining and enforcing best practice for dashboard design, data modelling, and performance optimisation
- Owning BI governance frameworks, including data quality and reporting standards
- Supporting and enabling business users to develop self-service analytics capability
- Writing and optimising complex SQL across cloud and on-premise environments
- Acting as the escalation point for complex BI and data-related issues
- Collaborating with data engineering teams on architecture and platform decisions
- Driving improvements to an existing Tableau estate, reducing technical debt and introducing scalable design patterns
- Supporting a major data warehouse migration into a cloud platform
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong end-to-end Tableau experience, including dashboard and data source development
- Proven capability in leading or improving a Tableau environment within a business setting
- Advanced SQL skills, with experience creating and optimising complex queries and data structures
- Experience working across both reporting and underlying data layers, not limited to front-end development
- Strong understanding of BI best practices, including performance, usability, and governance
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Exposure to data migration or modernisation programmes is beneficial
- Experience contributing to or improving BI services within an organisation is advantageous
What They Offer
- Salary – £56,000 with strong annual cost of living increases
- Flexible hybrid working with minimal office requirements
- A visible, high-impact role with ownership of the Tableau environment
- Opportunity to shape BI strategy and influence data governance at scale
- Involvement in a major cloud migration programme
- Exposure to emerging areas such as AI-enabled analytics and semantic layer development
- Clear progression within a structured framework
How to Apply
If you are an expert in Tableau, apply below!
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