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Senior Growth Director (Media)

City of London

£400 - £450

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
City of London, London

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Interim Senior Growth Director
London, Hybrid (2x a week on site), £400-450/day, Outside IR35, 9-month contract

This is an opportunity to step into a high-impact contract where you will shape growth strategy across digital performance channels for a growing streaming-focused business. You will take ownership of a well-established but evolving marketing function, bringing clarity through data, insight, and structured testing while leading a small, capable team.

The Company
They are a digital-first organisation operating within the media and streaming space, focused on scaling subscriber growth through performance-driven marketing. With a strong existing presence, they are continuing to invest in data-led acquisition strategies across multiple channels. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and built around measurable outcomes, with a clear focus on driving incremental growth.

The Role

  • Lead the growth and performance marketing strategy across connected TV, paid social, and conversion channels
  • Manage and develop a team of 3 to 4 marketers, ensuring delivery against acquisition targets
  • Translate complex data into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • Drive a structured test and learn approach, including ROI modelling and performance optimisation
  • Support partner marketing initiatives as part of the broader acquisition strategy

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong experience in growth or performance marketing, with a focus on acquisition rather than retention
  • Proven ability to work with data, draw insights quickly, and influence strategy through analytics
  • Experience managing and developing teams in a fast-paced marketing environment
  • Solid understanding of digital media channels, including paid social and conversion-led campaigns
  • Hands-on experience with media buying or performance channels
  • Familiarity with connected TV or a willingness to apply transferable channel experience
  • High attention to detail, particularly when working with junior teams and complex data sets

How to Apply
If you are a data-driven growth marketer ready to step into a strategic leadership role, apply now to learn more about this opportunity.

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Senior Marketing Manager

City of London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
City of London, London

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Senior Marketing Manager
This is an excellent opportunity to shape global marketing strategy and lead campaigns that deliver measurable growth across multiple markets. You will play an important role in aligning brand, digital and campaign activity while influencing senior stakeholders and improving marketing effectiveness at scale.

The Company
They are a globally operating organisation with a strong presence across international markets. Their marketing function is designed to balance global consistency with local market relevance, enabling teams to deliver insight-led campaigns. The business places strong emphasis on collaboration, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement. You will be joining a forward-thinking environment that supports innovation and career growth.

The Role

  • Lead the development and delivery of integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns across global markets
  • Own and optimise the end-to-end customer journey across key audience segments to improve engagement and conversion
  • Develop scalable messaging frameworks aligned to wider business objectives
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including digital, content, product marketing and design to ensure cohesive delivery
  • Provide strategic guidance to regional marketing teams to improve campaign quality and consistency
  • Use insight, experimentation and performance data to inform decisions and enhance outcomes
  • Drive alignment across teams in a complex, matrix environment to ensure consistent brand execution

Your Skills and Experience

  • Commercial experience delivering integrated marketing campaigns across multiple markets or functions
  • Proven ability to manage campaigns from concept through to execution and optimisation
  • Strategic thinking combined with a hands-on approach
  • Confident stakeholder management and influencing skills in matrix organisations
  • Experience working across brand, digital, content and customer experience
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to guide decisions
  • Excellent communication and copywriting skills for international audiences
  • Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong ownership and judgement

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Opportunity to shape global marketing strategy and campaign direction
  • Exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional leadership
  • A collaborative and innovative working environment
  • Clear opportunities for progression

How to Apply
Apply now to find out more and take the next step in your marketing career.

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Senior Analyst – Claude

New York

$115 - $125

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
New York

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Senior Analyst (AI / Claude) – Contract

Location: Flexible
Contract Length: 3-6 months
Day Rate: $125 per hour (DOE)

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Analyst to support a high-impact AI-focused initiative for our client, helping to structure and scale how advanced AI tools and frameworks are used across the organisation.

This is a hands-on contract role suited to someone who can operate independently, drive structured change, and work across both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Context

The organisation has recently completed a major AI build and is now in a deployment and optimisation phase:

  • Rolling out AI capabilities across the business
  • Transitioning commercial models (e.g. seat-based to usage-based pricing)
  • Exploring emerging tools and capabilities

The immediate priority is a programme focused on designing and implementing “Skills” – a structured way of packaging prompts and organisational knowledge to enable consistent, scalable use of AI tools.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and rollout ofSkills frameworks across the organisation
  • Codify business knowledge into structured, reusable prompt-based assets
  • Drive a methodical and scalable implementation of new ways of working
  • Act as a bridge between business users, data engineers, and external vendors
  • Lead a small-scale process and change initiative linked to AI adoption
  • Define and implement the structure, interfaces, and governance around Skills usage
  • Collaborate closely with internal teams and external data partners
  • Establish best practices for consistent and effective use of AI tools

Key Requirements

  • Strong Senior Analyst experience with a track record of delivering change initiatives
  • Proven experience with Skills by Anthropic / Claude Skills
  • Experience working on AI or advanced tooling-driven projects
  • Understanding of structured prompting concepts (e.g. Skills, reusable prompt frameworks)
  • Ability to work independently while influencing stakeholders across multiple teams
  • Experience collaborating with data engineers and technical teams
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capability

Desirable Experience

  • Exposure to tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar platforms
  • Experience within implementation or transformation programmes
  • Familiarity with usage-based pricing or product rollout environments
  • Awareness of emerging tooling and automation approaches

Profile

  • Highly intelligent, proactive, and delivery-focused
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure from scratch
  • Strong communicator with the ability to influence and drive adoption
  • Hands-on and commercially aware

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Senior Analytics Engineer

$150000 - $170000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
California

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Senior Analytics Engineer

Location: Remote

Salary: $150-170k base

We’re partnering exclusively with a fast-growing SaaS company to find a Senior Analytics Engineer to join their data team. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role sitting at the intersection of data engineering and analytics, perfect for someone who takes pride in building data foundations that the whole business relies on.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and building dimensional data models in Snowflake that underpin analytics across the business
  • Developing and optimising dbt models to turn raw source data into clean, trusted datasets
  • Partnering with analysts and business stakeholders to translate their needs into scalable data solutions
  • Implementing data quality checks and owning the reliability of analytics datasets
  • Contributing to data governance including PII handling, metadata management, and documentation
  • Supporting strategic analytics across customer journeys, revenue metrics, and product usage
  • Mentoring junior team members and championing best practices

What We’re Looking For

The company runs a best-in-class modern data stack built around Snowflake, dbt, and Monte Carlo, with data flowing in from Salesforce, HubSpot, Recurly, and core product databases. The team is evolving toward an AI-enabled, domain-oriented data organisation, so there’s real scope to shape the architecture, not just maintain it.

Essential:

  • 5+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a similar data-focused role
  • Expert-level SQL: complex queries, CTEs, window functions
  • Strong hands-on dbt experience
  • Snowflake (or equivalent cloud warehouse: BigQuery, Redshift)
  • Solid understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehouse design patterns
  • Experience with SaaS metrics: MRR, churn, CLV etc.
  • Python for data work or automation
  • Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Airflow / MWAA)
  • Comfortable working remotely and cross-functionally with distributed teams

Nice to have:

  • Experience with reverse ETL tools such as Hightouch
  • Exposure to BI tools (Hex preferred)
  • Understanding of data mesh or domain-oriented architecture concepts

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Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics

San Francisco

$200000 - $250000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Job Title: Staff Data Scientist

Location: Remote (US Only)

Salary: $200-250k base + equity

About the Company:

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

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

Position Summary:

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

Key Responsibilities:

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

Your Skills and Experience:

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

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Staff Product Data Scientist

$190000 - $220000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
California

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Staff Data Scientist (Product)

Location: Remote

Salary: $190-220k

We’re partnering with a fast-growing SaaS company to find a Staff Data Scientist for a senior, high-visibility role embedded in their product organization. This is for someone who combines deep statistical expertise with the ability to influence how an entire company makes decisions – not just someone who runs experiments, but someone who builds the culture and infrastructure around them.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Owning and advancing the company’s experimentation roadmap, focused on high-leverage product questions around customer workflows, churn risk, and long-term value
  • Designing and analyzing complex A/B tests, multivariate experiments, and Bayesian methods to measure the real impact of product changes
  • Applying causal inference techniques (DiD, synthetic control, propensity score matching, instrumental variables) where traditional RCTs aren’t feasible
  • Building and governing a unified KPI framework that connects product health metrics to meaningful business outcomes
  • Partnering with Data Engineering to build scalable, self-serve experimentation tooling and reusable analytical frameworks
  • Translating complex statistical findings into clear, compelling narratives for VP and C-suite audiences
  • Mentoring and training junior and mid-level data scientists on experimental design and causal modeling

What We’re Looking For

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Product Data, acting as a strategic thought partner across Product, Engineering, Finance, Design, and Product Marketing. The company is at an inflection point in how it uses data to make product decisions, and this person will be central to shaping that.

Essential:

  • 6+ years in applied data science, economics, or product analytics
  • Proven expertise in causal inference: DiD, PSM, instrumental variables, quasi-experimentation
  • Deep experience in A/B testing methodology including sequential testing, CUPED, variance reduction, and network effects
  • Advanced SQL and Python or R for statistical modeling
  • Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses
  • Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to drive change in organizations where experimentation culture is still developing

Nice to have:

  • Experience with dbt, Airflow, or Databricks
  • Background in SaaS and product data science

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Los Angeles

$160000 - $200000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Los Angeles, California

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Salary: $160-200k base

We’re partnering with a fast-scaling, mission-driven advanced technology company building complex software and hardware systems deployed in real-world environments. Their platform processes and operationalizes high-volume data to power critical decision-making across the organization.

They are hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and scale the core data infrastructure that supports company-wide operations.

The Role

As a Senior Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will:

  • Design and build scalable data pipelines and transformation frameworks
  • Own ingestion and egress systems that unify multiple operational data sources
  • Develop reliable, secure data models that power internal data products and applications
  • Partner with engineering, product, and operations to translate business needs into production-grade systems
  • Advocate for best practices across testing, CI/CD, data modeling, and security
  • Debug and optimize complex transformation pipelines in production environments

What They’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering
  • Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages
  • Experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL, and dbt
  • Familiarity with large-scale data platforms and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with containerization and modern deployment practices
  • Ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving environments
  • Strong ownership mindset and attention to security best practices
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to export-controlled information requirements

This is a high-impact role focused on building durable data systems that directly support operational execution at scale.

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Staff Data Platform Engineer

San Francisco

$200000 - $245000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Staff Data Platform Engineer

US Remote

$200-245k base + Equity

We’re working with a rapidly expanding consumer tech startup that recently raised $125M in Series D funding. As they continue to scale, they’re looking to hire a Staff Data Engineer to join their growing data team. If you have a strong foundation in software engineering, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for driving data strategy, this is the opportunity for you!

The Role:
As a Staff Data Engineer, you’ll be a crucial part of the team, ensuring data is accessible, reliable, and actionable across the company. Working alongside engineers, data scientists, and business teams, you’ll help build scalable data platforms that drive key business initiatives and enable data-driven decision-making.

What You’ll Do:

  • Collaborate with engineering, data science, and business teams to understand data needs and implement effective solutions aligned with business objectives.
  • Design and build scalable data infrastructure and pipelines to handle high volumes of data as the company grows.
  • Lead the design and optimization of data architecture, ensuring it’s secure, high-performing, and scalable.
  • Improve and streamline data pipelines to provide fast, reliable access to high-quality data.
  • Contribute to the design of reporting frameworks and analytics tools that empower teams to make data-driven decisions.
  • Work with security teams to ensure data privacy and compliance standards are met.
  • Mentor junior engineers, share expertise, and promote best practices across the team.
  • Stay updated on new technologies and suggest improvements to enhance processes and tool efficiency.

You’re a Great Fit If:

  • You have 7+ years of experience in data engineering.
  • You’ve worked at a leading consumer tech company known for engineering excellence.
  • You’re an expert in SQL, Python, and data platform development.
    • Nice-to-have: Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Redshift, Athena, S3, and Airflow.
  • You have hands-on experience with complex data infrastructures and optimizing data pipelines.
  • You’ve led large-scale data projects that had a significant impact on your organization.
  • You thrive in collaborative environments and have strong communication skills.
  • You have an ownership mindset and take responsibility for delivering results.

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