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DIVERSITY GUIDES 2022

An in-depth look into diversity within Data & AI, we have been carrying out primary research for a number of years to create annual diversity guides.

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Data Analyst – FTC

London

£50000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Data Analyst (FTC – 6 Months)
London or Oxford (Hybrid 2-3 days) | Up to £55,000

No sponsorship offered – must have full UK working rights

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Data Analyst to join a highly data-driven organisation on an initial 6-month fixed-term contract. This role offers the chance to support a business-critical regulatory programme, working with large and complex datasets to deliver accurate analysis, reporting, and data extracts. If you thrive in a SQL-focused environment and enjoy working on high-impact projects where precision matters, this could be an excellent fit.

The Company

They are an established, technology-led financial services organisation with a strong emphasis on data and analytics. Operating within a regulated environment, they use data to support critical business decisions, customer outcomes, and compliance requirements.
Their analytics function works across the organisation, partnering with teams to provide insights, reporting, and operational support. Data plays a central role in their decision-making, creating an environment where analytical expertise is highly valued.

The Role

As a Data Analyst, you will join a collaborative analytics team supporting a major regulatory programme. This is a hands-on position focused on extracting, manipulating, and analysing data to support reporting, operational processes, and stakeholder requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting a large-scale regulatory and customer remediation programme
  • Writing, maintaining, and optimising SQL queries for data extraction and analysis
  • Processing and fulfilling high volumes of data requests
  • Producing accurate data extracts, reports, and management information
  • Working with large and complex datasets to identify relevant information
  • Ensuring data quality, accuracy, and auditability in all outputs
  • Collaborating with stakeholders across analytics and wider business functions
  • Supporting reporting requirements within a regulated environment

Your Skills & Experience
You will have:

  • Strong commercial SQL experience with advanced data manipulation and querying skills
  • Experience working with large datasets and complex extraction requests
  • Excellent attention to detail and a highly accurate approach to analytical work
  • Experience delivering reporting and data outputs to business stakeholders
  • The ability to work effectively within a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment
  • Availability to start within a reasonable timeframe

Desirable experience:

  • Financial services experience
  • Exposure to regulated or compliance-driven environments
  • Experience working with complaints, regulatory, or customer remediation datasets
  • Tableau or other dashboarding and visualisation tools

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £55,000
  • 6-month fixed-term contract
  • Hybrid working with offices in London and Oxford
  • Attendance in the office 2-3 days per week
  • Flexibility to be based from either location
  • Travel expenses covered when travelling between offices for business requirements
  • Opportunity to work on a high-profile regulatory programme with significant business impact
  • Exposure to senior stakeholders and a highly regarded analytics function

How to Apply

If you’re a SQL-focused Data Analyst looking for a high-impact opportunity within a data-driven organisation, please apply with your CV to learn more about the role and company.

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Product Marketing Manager

Remote

$65 - $70

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
New York

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This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of customer retention strategy within a subscription-based digital product environment. You will lead high-impact initiatives focused on reducing churn, increasing engagement, and delivering measurable commercial outcomes through data-driven marketing and cross-functional collaboration.

The Company

They are a well-established consumer-focused organisation operating a large-scale subscription business. With a strong emphasis on customer experience, engagement, and long-term retention, they invest heavily in marketing innovation, automation, and personalised customer journeys. You will join a collaborative environment where strategic thinking and measurable impact are highly valued.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Develop and deliver retention and churn mitigation strategies for subscription customers.
  • Create testing roadmaps and capability requirements that can be translated into technical delivery plans by IT and engineering teams.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with stakeholders across CRM, engagement marketing, revenue marketing, governance, and analytics.
  • Design and implement lifecycle marketing strategies across engagement, upsell, cross-sell, retention, and churn prevention.
  • Establish measurement frameworks and KPI tracking focused on subscriber retention, product engagement, campaign performance, and revenue growth.
  • Use customer insights, behavioural data, segmentation, and performance analysis to identify optimisation opportunities and improve customer journeys.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience developing retention, churn reduction, or customer lifecycle marketing strategies within a subscription-based business.
  • Proven ability to define strategic capabilities and testing frameworks that support technical implementation.
  • Experience leading complex, enterprise-wide strategic initiatives from discovery through to execution.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple business functions and senior leadership teams.
  • Experience building business cases, conducting cost-benefit analysis, and demonstrating commercial impact.
  • Strong understanding of marketing automation, personalisation, customer segmentation, and campaign optimisation.
  • Comfortable using customer insights and performance data to shape strategy and drive decision-making.
  • Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to identify opportunities, overcome challenges, and improve operational efficiency through automation.

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Data Scientist

San Francisco

$85 - $90

+ Data Science & AI

Contract
San Francisco, California

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This is an opportunity to join a high-impact project focused on territory design, quota planning, and GTM analytics within a B2B SaaS environment. You’ll play a key role in shaping data-driven models that support commercial decision-making, working closely with stakeholders to deliver practical, evidence-based outcomes.

The Company

They are a specialist consultancy partnering with organisations to solve complex commercial and operational challenges through data, analytics, and AI. Working closely with client teams, they combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery to design scalable solutions that improve business performance. Their approach is highly collaborative, with a strong focus on practical outcomes and knowledge transfer.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Build and validate attainment models using historical sales performance and territory composition data.
  • Develop predictive quota models aligned to financial planning assumptions and historical attainment outcomes.
  • Apply territory design methodologies across both Sales and Customer Success functions.
  • Analyse and model data from exported source files and spreadsheets, ensuring robust statistical validation.
  • Partner with commercial and technical stakeholders to refine methodology and challenge assumptions.
  • Produce clear documentation that enables client teams and future delivery partners to understand and apply the approach.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience working with SaaS sales operations, GTM analytics, territory planning, quota setting, or attainment analysis.
  • Proven capability in data science, statistical modelling, and validating models using real-world business data.
  • Advanced SQL and Python or R skills for data manipulation, analysis, and modelling.
  • Excellent Excel and Google Sheets skills, with experience working directly from exported datasets.
  • Understanding of statistical or machine learning techniques used to connect territory, account, or quota attributes with performance outcomes.
  • Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements and adapt solutions as project needs evolve.
  • Strong communication skills, including presenting findings and methodology to client stakeholders.
  • Experience working with Salesforce data structures would be beneficial.
  • Exposure to agentic, rules-based, or decision-support modelling approaches would be advantageous.

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SVP, Head of Technology

New York

$300000 - $350000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
New York

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SVP, Head of Technology
Location: United States (Remote) – HQ in New York
Salary: Base up to $350k + 15% bonus + equity (total comp ~$500k)

This is a rare opportunity to lead a full Product and Technology transformation at a business redefining how AI is applied within digital products and customer workflows. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will shape strategy across Product, Engineering, Data, Design, QA, and Technology while helping build a genuinely AI-native operating model.

The Company
Our client is a private equity-backed technology business operating at the intersection of digital advertising, data, and artificial intelligence. They have an established platform, a strong customer base, and a leadership team committed to long-term innovation.

The organisation is entering a significant growth and transformation phase focused on building proprietary intelligence, modernising product development, and embedding AI throughout the business. With investment already secured, they are seeking an executive leader who can help define the next chapter of the company.

The Role
As SVP, Head of Product & Technology, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution across Product and Technology functions.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Define and execute the Product and Technology strategy aligned to business objectives
  • Lead Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Reliability, and Design teams
  • Build and scale AI-enabled products, workflows, and operational capabilities
  • Develop proprietary data assets and intelligence platforms that create competitive advantage
  • Modernise technology architecture, engineering practices, and delivery processes
  • Establish a high-performance operating model that balances innovation, quality, and efficiency
  • Drive platform reliability, security, governance, and scalability
  • Partner closely with executive stakeholders to prioritise technology investments and transformation initiatives
  • Create clear metrics and reporting frameworks to demonstrate business value and transformation outcomes
  • Present strategic updates, priorities, and ROI to senior leadership and board stakeholders

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong executive leadership experience across Product, Engineering, and Technology functions
  • Experience leading large-scale transformation programmes within technology-driven businesses
  • Commercial experience building or deploying AI, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic workflow solutions
  • Strong understanding of cloud technologies, modern software engineering, data platforms, and system architecture
  • Ability to translate business strategy into scalable technology and product roadmaps
  • Experience managing cross-functional teams spanning Product, Engineering, Data, and Design
  • Strong knowledge of data governance, analytics, and proprietary intellectual property development
  • Comfortable operating within a private equity-backed or highly performance-focused environment
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience presenting to executive and board-level audiences
  • Experience within AdTech, MarTech, digital media, SaaS, or data-intensive technology environments is highly beneficial

What They Offer

  • Remote-first working environment
  • Direct access to CEO and board-level decision making
  • Opportunity to build and lead an AI-native Product & Technology organisation
  • Significant influence over company strategy, investment decisions, and future growth
  • A genuine opportunity to create lasting technology, data, and product impact

How to Apply
If you are an executive Product and Technology leader with a track record of driving transformation, AI adoption, and business growth, apply today to discuss this opportunity with Harnham.

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Senior Product Manager

Chicago

$158206.1 - $219054.6

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
Chicago, Illinois

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Senior or Lead Product Manager – Underwriting
Chicago – 3 days per week
Up to $180,000

Senior Product Manager | Lending, Decisioning & Growth | Chicago (Hybrid)

We’re partnering with a rapidly growing fintech that is transforming how lending decisions are made through technology, automation and data.

As they continue to scale, they’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own a critical lending product area at the heart of the business – credit risk and underwriting. This is an opportunity to move beyond feature delivery and take ownership of products that directly influence customer outcomes, operational performance and revenue growth.

Why this role?

✅ Own business-critical lending products end-to-end
✅ Drive strategy, roadmap and measurable business outcomes
✅ Partner directly with Engineering, Operations, Analytics and Executive Leadership
✅ Solve complex, ambiguous problems with real autonomy
✅ High visibility and significant influence in a growing organisation

What you’ll be doing

  • Own the product strategy, roadmap and KPI performance for a lending domain
  • Improve operational workflows and customer journeys through product innovation
  • Identify bottlenecks and design scalable technology solutions
  • Work closely with engineers to define requirements and launch new capabilities
  • Analyse performance using SQL and data-driven experimentation
  • Balance customer experience, operational efficiency and business goals
  • Lead initiatives from discovery through launch with minimal oversight

What we’re looking for

  • Product Managers who have owned outcomes, not just roadmaps
  • Strong analytical mindset with SQL and experimentation experience
  • Experience optimising complex workflows, systems or decision processes
  • Comfort working closely with engineers and technical stakeholders
  • Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, low-structure environments

Particularly interested in backgrounds such as:

  • Fintech
  • Payments
  • Lending
  • Fraud & Risk
  • Decisioning Platforms
  • Pricing & Optimisation Products
  • Marketplace or Operationally Complex Systems
  • AI / Machine Learning Products

Package

$120,000 – $180,000 Base
10-15% Annual Bonus
Chicago Hybrid (3 days onsite)
❌ No Visa Sponsorship

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VP Credit Risk, Analytics & Data Science

$279903.1 - $365091

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
USA

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VP Credit Risk Strategy & Data Science
United States (Remote)
Circa $250,000+ Salary

Build the Next Generation of SMB Lending

A high-growth SMB lender is looking for a senior credit leader to help shape the future of its credit operating system.

The business has already built strong foundations across underwriting, portfolio management, and risk governance. This isn’t a turnaround story or a traditional “keep the lights on” credit role.

The next chapter is about:

  • Growth in risky segments
  • New products
  • Smarter underwriting
  • Deeper use of machine learning
  • Automated decisioning
  • Better portfolio intelligence
  • Faster translation of data into action

We’re looking for someone who sits comfortably at the intersection of credit strategy, analytics, and data science.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own credit strategy across originations, portfolio management, and customer lifecycle
  • Lead Data Science to build, deploy, and optimize ML-driven decisioning
  • Turn portfolio insights into pricing, limit, and policy decisions
  • Drive experimentation frameworks, monitoring, and continuous strategy improvement
  • Influence how underwriting evolves as the business scales
  • Help lead and develop a growing team spanning credit, analytics, and data science
  • Work directly with senior leadership on growth, profitability, and risk appetite

What We’re Looking For

You don’t need to be a hands-on data scientist today, but you should be comfortable operating in model-driven environments.

Typically, successful backgrounds include a mix of Credit Strategy & Data Science, making this search difficuly. If you have lived across htese worlds this world is perfect for you.

Ideally you’ll have:

  • Experience within fintech, lending, embedded finance, cards, or SMB finance
  • Successful ownership of credit strategy in a growth environment
  • Strong understanding of ML-driven underwriting and portfolio analytics
  • Exposure to alternative data, cash-flow underwriting, or transaction-based decisioning
  • Experience owning growth vs loss trade-offs
  • Ability to challenge and guide Data Science teams, not just consume their outputs

Why This Role?

  • Founder-led business
  • Significant executive visibility
  • Ability to influence company strategy
  • High degree of autonomy
  • Real investment in data, analytics, and ML
  • Opportunity to help define what credit decisioning looks like over the next several years

This is a role for someone who enjoys building, not maintaining.

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CRO Developer

Manchester

£50000 - £60000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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CRO Developer

£50,000 – £60,000

Hybrid – Manchester (3x days per week)

This is a rare opportunity to join a growing digital business where experimentation sits at the heart of decision making. With strong investment in CRO and testing, you will play a key role in creating, deploying, and analysing experiments across high traffic digital platforms. This position offers the chance to make a direct commercial impact while working with modern experimentation tools and technologies.

The Company

They are an established digital performance business operating across multiple international markets. Through a portfolio of proprietary digital platforms, they manage and optimise the full customer journey from acquisition through to conversion. Their data-driven approach to growth has created a strong culture of experimentation, with significant opportunities to improve customer experiences through testing. Continued expansion has led to investment in building internal CRO and experimentation capability.

The Role

As a CRO Developer, you will be responsible for building, implementing, and maintaining A/B tests and experiments across a range of digital products. You will work closely with analysts, marketers, designers, and stakeholders to translate hypotheses into live experiments that drive measurable business results.

  • Build and deploy A/B and multivariate tests using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Develop high-quality experiment code across websites and digital platforms
  • Work with CRO and product stakeholders to turn testing ideas into live experiments
  • Implement personalisation and experimentation campaigns using leading CRO tools
  • Ensure experiments are technically robust, performant, and accurately tracked
  • Debug, troubleshoot, and optimise testing implementations
  • Collaborate with analytics teams to support experiment measurement and reporting
  • Contribute to experimentation best practices, processes, and governance
  • Identify technical opportunities to improve customer journeys and conversion performance

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as a CRO Developer, Front End Developer, or Experimentation Developer
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying experiments using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Experience with CRO and experimentation platforms such as Optimizely, VWO, AB Tasty, Convert, Dynamic Yield, or similar
  • Strong understanding of A/B testing methodologies and experimentation principles
  • Experience working with web analytics and performance measurement tools
  • Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable front-end code
  • Understanding of customer journeys, user behaviour, and conversion optimisation
  • Comfortable working closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience within performance marketing, ecommerce, lead generation, or high traffic digital environments is beneficial

What They Offer

  • £50,000 – £60,000 base salary
  • Bonus scheme
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility
  • Opportunity to help shape a growing experimentation function
  • Exposure to high traffic digital products and large-scale testing programmes
  • Strong career progression opportunities
  • Collaborative and data-driven environment

How to Apply

If you are a CRO Developer with experience building and deploying experiments using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, apply now to learn more about this opportunity.

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Product Analyst

Manchester

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Product Analyst
£60,000 – £70,000 + benefits
Hybrid – Manchester (3x days per week)

This is an opportunity to join a highly regarded digital business that reaches millions of consumers every week. Sitting within a cross functional product environment, you will use data to shape customer experiences, influence product strategy, and drive measurable business outcomes. You will take ownership of key analytics initiatives while helping to develop best practice across a growing analytics community.

The Company
They are a leading consumer focused digital organisation with a strong technology and data driven culture. Their platform supports millions of users, helping customers research, compare, and make informed purchasing decisions.
Data plays a central role in decision making across the business, and analytics is deeply embedded within product development. They offer a collaborative environment where analysts work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Research teams to solve complex customer challenges.

The Role
As a Senior Data Analyst, you will:

  • Partner with product teams to define success metrics and measurement frameworks
  • Establish robust governance, monitoring, and reporting standards for key product areas
  • Design and develop data products in collaboration with data and engineering teams
  • Drive improvements to tracking and measurement capabilities across digital products
  • Lead experimentation and A/B testing programmes, providing actionable recommendations
  • Support product discovery by working alongside Design and User Research teams
  • Influence senior stakeholders through clear, evidence based insights
  • Identify opportunities to improve customer journeys, engagement, and product performance
  • Mentor and support other analysts within the wider analytics community
  • Contribute to the development of analytics frameworks, standards, and best practices

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience within consumer facing digital product environments
  • Experience analysing complex customer journeys and behavioural data
  • Knowledge of experimentation methodologies and statistical inference techniques
  • Familiarity with product analytics and user behaviour tracking tools, such as Google Analytics or similar platforms
  • Advanced SQL skills and working knowledge of Python
  • Understanding of ETL processes and core data engineering concepts
  • Ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations
  • Experience delivering analytics projects within cross functional teams
  • Proven capability in mentoring, coaching, or leading analysts
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

What They Offer

  • Salary of £50,000 to £70,000
  • Annual equity award equivalent to 10% of salary
  • Hybrid working model with regular collaboration in the office
  • Generous annual leave allowance plus bank holidays
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Private medical insurance and wellbeing support services
  • Enhanced family friendly benefits
  • Additional savings and share scheme options
  • Clear opportunities to influence strategy and progress your analytics career within a mature data environment

How to Apply
If you are an experienced Senior Data Analyst looking to make an impact in a product led, data driven organisation, please apply with your CV to discuss the opportunity further.

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