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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 Scientist
St. Helens
£40000 - £50000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSt. Helens, Merseyside
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Data Scientist – Merseyside
As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with the Lead Data Science and cross-functional teams to develop and deploy models that support customer and commercial decision-making. Responsibilities include:
- Building and deploying machine learning models across customer use cases
- Delivering projects focused on customer segmentation, lifetime value, and forecasting
- Supporting targeted marketing activity, including campaigns and personalisation
- Collaborating with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders
- Contributing to the development of a scalable Data Science platform
- Ensuring models are production-ready and drive measurable business impact
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in Data Science, delivering end-to-end projects
- Proficiency in Python, with solid SQL skills
- Experience applying machine learning and statistical techniques to business problems
- Exposure to deploying models into production environments
- Understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure is beneficial
- Ability to communicate insights clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- A practical, delivery-focused mindset with a collaborative approach
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Senior Data Scientist
Leicester
£65000 - £75000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLeicester, Leicestershire
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Senior Data Scientist
Leicester (Hybrid – 1 Day Per Week)
£60,000-£75,000 + £5,000 Car Allowance + 10% Bonus + Outstanding Benefits
THE COMPANY
We’re exclusively partnering with one of the UK’s leading digital insurance businesses to hire two Senior Data Scientists into its highly regarded Alternative Pricing Product (APP) team.
With over four million customers and significant investment in Data Science, Machine Learning and digital transformation, the business has built one of the strongest pricing and analytics capabilities in UK insurance. This is a genuinely innovative environment where Data Scientists are encouraged to challenge conventional pricing methods, explore new data sources and develop cutting-edge machine learning solutions that directly influence commercial decisions.
THE ROLE
Joining a specialist team of six Data Scientists and Analysts, you’ll play a key role in developing the next generation of pricing models across car and van insurance.
Rather than maintaining existing models, you’ll be encouraged to challenge traditional pricing approaches by exploring new datasets and applying innovative machine learning techniques to solve complex commercial problems.
Responsibilities include:
- Building predictive machine learning models using large, complex datasets
- Developing innovative pricing and customer selection models
- Creating footprint (geospatial) models using alternative data sources
- Developing residual models to improve claims prediction accuracy
- Exploring novel datasets to improve pricing performance
- Taking existing V1 models and evolving them into production-ready V2 solutions
- Working closely with Pricing, Data Science and Engineering teams
- Mentoring a Graduate Data Scientist while leading your own projects from concept through to delivery
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong Python and SQL experience
- Commercial Machine Learning experience
- Strong predictive modelling background
- Comfortable working with large, messy datasets
- Experience solving complex business problems using data
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members
- Exposure to model deployment is beneficial but not essential
- Experience within Insurance, Financial Services, Gaming or another digital-first business is advantageous
Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Graph-based models or geospatial modelling would be beneficial but is not essential.
THE BENEFITS
- Salary up to £75,000 (up to £80,000 for exceptional candidates)
- £5,000 annual car allowance
- 10% target bonus (up to 20%)
- Hybrid working (1 day per week in the office)
- Choice of London or Leicester or Bexhill office, with monthly London travel fully expensed
- Private Medical Insurance
- 10% matched pension
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Health & Wellbeing package
- Optional dental cover
- Discounts on company products
INTERVIEW PROCESS
- 30-minute introductory conversation with the Hiring Manager
- Take-home case study followed by a 20-minute presentation and technical discussion
- Final leadership and team-fit interview
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Max Beadle at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.
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Growth & Product Analytics Lead
London
£160000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth & Product Analytics Lead
London – Full Time in Office
Up to £180,000 + Equity
This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth AI software business at a pivotal stage of its journey. Working directly with executive leadership, you will shape the decisions that influence product strategy, customer growth, commercial performance and international expansion.
The Company
They are a venture-backed technology company using artificial intelligence to transform how businesses analyse information, generate insights and make strategic decisions. Having experienced significant growth since launch, they are continuing to scale their product offering, customer base and international presence.
With strong technical foundations already in place, they are now investing in their Strategy & Operations capability to ensure data drives every major commercial and product decision. This role offers direct exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to have a measurable impact on company growth.
The Role
As the Growth & Product Analytics Lead, you will sit within the CEO Office and Strategy & Operations function, owning the analytics that underpin commercial and product decision-making.
You will:
- Drive insights across product adoption, customer activation and usage growth
- Identify opportunities to improve customer expansion, retention and revenue generation
- Partner with leadership to influence product, pricing and go-to-market strategy
- Own experimentation frameworks and measure the impact of new initiatives
- Define instrumentation and measurement requirements alongside product and engineering teams
- Build analyses, models and solutions directly rather than acting as a reporting function
- Translate complex data into clear, commercially actionable recommendations
- Proactively identify problems, quantify opportunities and deliver measurable outcomes
- Support strategic decision-making through product, commercial and growth analytics
Your Skills & Experience
You will bring:
- Strong experience influencing growth, adoption or commercial performance within a B2B or enterprise software environment
- Advanced SQL and hands-on experience working with modern data warehouses, dbt and BI tools
- A track record of using data to improve product adoption, customer growth, pricing or monetisation outcomes
- Experience designing experiments and measuring the impact of strategic initiatives
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect analytics to business outcomes
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with confidence presenting insights to senior leadership
- A hands-on approach and ability to independently build solutions, analyses and frameworks
- Experience across growth analytics, product analytics, commercial analytics, monetisation analytics or growth-focused data science
What They Offer
- Competitive base salary with meaningful equity participation
- High levels of autonomy and ownership
- Direct exposure to founders and executive leadership
- The opportunity to shape a newly established analytics function
- Significant scope for career progression as the business continues to scale
- A fast-paced, ambitious and highly collaborative environment
- The chance to influence high-impact strategic decisions across product, growth and commercial operations
How to Apply
If you’re a commercially minded analytics professional who enjoys turning data into growth opportunities and wants to make a direct impact within a scaling AI business, apply today to learn more.
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AI Architect
$70 - $80
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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AI Architect (Contract)
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is currently partnering with a well-established financial technology business with a strong focus on data, analytics, and product innovation. The organization is investing in next-generation AI-enabled decision-making and is seeking an expert consultant to help define and build the architecture that will support this vision.
- Role: AI Architect
- Location: remote, anywhere in the US
- Pay: $70-80 per hour
- Length: Extendable 6-month initial contract
- Utilization: 40 hours/week
- Benefits: W2 employees are eligible for health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
As an AI Architect, you will play a key role in shaping the foundations of AI-powered analytics within a data-driven organization. You will work closely with internal data and engineering teams to design a scalable AI context layer, build a proof of concept, and establish the evaluation frameworks required to deliver trusted, high-quality AI-generated insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Design a target-state architecture for an AI context and semantic layer.
- Create a working proof of concept alongside internal data and engineering stakeholders.
- Define how governed business context, metadata, and metric definitions should be authored, maintained, and version controlled.
- Develop an evaluation framework that measures the quality, reliability, and accuracy of AI-generated answers.
- Advise on integrating AI assistants with enterprise data and contextual knowledge sources.
- Establish approaches for monitoring performance, detecting drift, and continuously improving answer quality.
- Help create a scalable, maintainable solution that supports future AI and analytics initiatives.
- Produce documentation and recommendations that enable successful handover and long-term adoption.
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience designing semantic layers, metrics layers, or governed data platforms.
- Expertise working with modern cloud data environments and analytics architectures.
- Experience building AI, LLM, agentic AI, MCP, or retrieval-based solutions that interact with structured business data.
- Strong knowledge of dbt and data transformation best practices.
- Experience defining evaluation methodologies for AI systems and measuring answer accuracy.
- Ability to communicate architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience delivering proof of concepts, frameworks, or platform designs in collaborative environments.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Snowflake, modern ELT tooling, analytics platforms, and AI assistants.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AI and Data Architecture professional to shape a high-impact AI initiative from the ground up. You will work alongside senior data and engineering stakeholders, influence the future direction of AI-powered analytics, and help build scalable foundations for long-term success.
Interested? Apply today through Harnham.
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AI Architect
Remote
$70 - $80
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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AI Architect
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is partnering with an innovative technology company seeking an experienced AI Architect to help shape the future of AI-powered analytics and decision-making.
- Role: AI Data Architecture Consultant
- Location: Fully Remote (US)
- Pay: $70 – $80 per hour
- Length: 6 month initial contract with extension potential
- Utilisation: 40 hours per week
- Benefits: Health, dental, vision, and 401(k) available for eligible W2 employees
The Role
You will work closely with data and engineering teams to design the architectural foundations for AI-powered analytics. This role combines strategy and hands-on delivery, including building a proof of concept and defining frameworks that ensure trusted, high-quality AI outputs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design an AI context and semantic layer architecture
- Build a proof of concept with internal stakeholders
- Define governance for business metadata, metrics, and contextual data
- Develop frameworks to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated insights
- Advise on integrating AI assistants with enterprise data platforms
- Establish monitoring and continuous improvement processes for AI solutions
- Deliver documentation and recommendations to support long-term adoption
Requirements
- Experience designing semantic layers, metrics layers, or governed data platforms
- Strong understanding of modern cloud data and analytics environments
- Experience with LLMs, agentic AI, MCP, RAG, or similar AI technologies
- Strong knowledge of dbt and data transformation best practices
- Experience evaluating AI system performance and accuracy
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills
- Exposure to Snowflake, ELT tools, and modern analytics platforms
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high-impact AI initiative, influence AI strategy from the ground up, and work with senior technical stakeholders on cutting-edge data and AI challenges so if interested apply below or contact Ciarán for more information
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AI Product Director
San Francisco
$275000 - $290000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Job Title: AI Product Director
Location: SF Bay Area (Hybrid 2-3 days/week in office)
Salary: $275-290k base
Overview:
An established fintech organization is seeking an AI Product Director to lead the next phase of its enterprise-wide AI transformation program.
This is a highly visible leadership role focused on reimagining business processes through AI and scaling successful AI solutions across multiple functions. You’ll work closely with executive stakeholders, lead a growing AI product team, and oversee multiple concurrent initiatives that are already delivering measurable business value.
The ideal candidate combines strategic product leadership with hands-on execution and has played a direct role in designing and delivering AI-powered products from concept through production.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise AI transformation initiatives
- Partner with senior business leaders to identify opportunities for AI-driven process redesign
- Translate business objectives into scalable product and solution blueprints
- Oversee multiple AI product initiatives simultaneously, ensuring quality, speed, and business impact
- Manage and mentor a team of AI Product Managers
- Lead discovery efforts with business stakeholders to map current-state processes and identify transformation opportunities
- Evaluate and select external engineering partners and maintain accountability throughout delivery
- Establish quality assurance, evaluation, and governance frameworks for AI solutions
- Partner with technical teams to define success metrics, testing methodologies, and production-readiness standards
- Drive stakeholder adoption, executive alignment, and organizational change management
What We’re Looking For:
- 8-12 years of Product Management experience
- Proven track record delivering AI-enabled products from concept through production deployment
- Demonstrated experience contributing directly to AI solution design, architecture discussions, or product blueprint creation
- Experience leading multiple concurrent product initiatives in fast-paced environments
- Experience managing Product Managers or leading product teams
- Strong vendor management experience and ability to guide third-party delivery partners
- Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience in fintech, lending, payments, risk technology, or other regulated industries
- Knowledge of AI governance, explainability, compliance, or model risk concepts
- Familiarity with agentic systems, AI evaluation frameworks, benchmark testing, and modern LLM applications
- Experience scaling AI products within high-growth technology companies
Benefits:
- Additional performance-based cash compensation potential
- Executive visibility and influence across the organization
- Opportunity to build and lead a growing AI product function
- Exposure to large-scale AI transformation initiatives with significant business impact
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AI Product Manager
San Francisco
$190000 - $210000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Job Title: AI Product Manager
Location: SF Bay Area (Hybrid 2-3 days/week in office)
Salary: $190-210k base
Overview:
A growing financial technology organization is expanding its AI product team and seeking two AI Product Managers to lead business process transformation initiatives powered by AI.
This is not a role focused on AI experimentation or internal productivity tools. The organization already has production AI systems delivering measurable business impact and is now extending those capabilities across multiple business functions. You will own the full lifecycle of AI initiatives, from discovery and process redesign through implementation, quality control, and adoption.
This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on product manager who enjoys ambiguity, thrives in fast-moving environments, and wants to build deep expertise in AI product development while working closely with business leaders, data scientists, and engineering partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery sessions with business stakeholders to understand current workflows, pain points, exceptions, and opportunities for transformation
- Redesign business processes from a 0-to-1 perspective, leveraging AI to fundamentally improve outcomes rather than simply automate existing workflows
- Create detailed product requirements, design briefs, process maps, and solution specifications
- Partner with data science and engineering teams to define AI capabilities, evaluation criteria, and success metrics
- Manage external engineering partners throughout the development lifecycle and ensure delivery aligns with product requirements
- Design quality assurance and evaluation frameworks to assess AI outputs before deployment
- Coordinate pilot programs, user testing, and adoption strategies
- Measure business impact and continuously refine solutions post-launch
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and drive alignment across technical and non-technical teams
What We’re Looking For:
- 3-5 years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Operations, or a related discipline
- Direct experience working on AI-powered products or AI-driven business process transformation initiatives
- Experience leading discovery efforts and gathering requirements from business stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Proven ability to create specifications, requirements documents, design briefs, or other product artifacts that have been used to build and launch solutions
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous challenges independently
- Experience balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience within fintech, lending, payments, insurtech, healthtech, or other regulated industries
- Experience working with external vendors, consultants, or engineering partners
- Familiarity with AI evaluation methodologies, testing frameworks, or model validation approaches
- Exposure to LLM-enabled products, AI agents, or intelligent automation platforms
Benefits:
- Additional performance-based cash compensation potential
- Opportunity to join a company actively deploying AI at scale across multiple business functions
- High degree of ownership and visibility within a rapidly growing AI product organization
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Marketing Operations Specialist
New Jersey
$35 - $55
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractNew Jersey
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Marketing Operations Specialist
New Jersey, Hybrid
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing consumer health and skincare organization on a maternity leave cover contract. You’ll play a key role in supporting marketing operations, sales enablement, creative production, and event execution while helping deliver high-impact marketing initiatives during a busy and exciting period.
The Company
They are a well-established organization operating within the consumer health and skincare space, known for delivering innovative products and strong customer experiences. Their collaborative culture encourages ownership, cross-functional partnership, and continuous improvement. The team works closely with both domestic and international stakeholders to support commercial growth, product launches, and field marketing initiatives.
The Role and Deliverables
- Create and update marketing materials including sales collateral, brochures, promotional assets, displays, and launch support materials.
- Coordinate the production and distribution of marketing materials, ensuring assets are available, orderable, and delivered on time.
- Support inventory forecasting and replenishment of marketing resources across vendors, warehouses, and internal teams.
- Manage marketing operations activities including purchase orders, invoice processing, budget tracking, and project coordination.
- Provide day-to-day support to the sales organization, fulfilling marketing requests, onboarding materials, and event requirements.
- Partner with internal stakeholders, external vendors, and international teams to improve processes, streamline workflows, and support business objectives.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in marketing operations, marketing coordination, or a similar business support function.
- Experience supporting sales teams and field-based commercial activities.
- Exposure to industry events, conferences, summits, or similar large-scale marketing initiatives.
- Graphic design capabilities with proficiency in Canva, Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, or similar creative tools.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
- Excellent communication skills with a proactive, collaborative, and professional approach.
- Experience coordinating with external vendors, agencies, printers, or supply partners.
- Background within skincare, beauty, healthcare, consumer health, or a related industry is advantageous.
How to Apply
If you’re a detail-oriented marketing professional who enjoys balancing creative execution with operational excellence, apply today to learn more about this contract opportunity.
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