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Product and Growth Analytics Lead
London
£160000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth Analytics Lead London (5 Days in Office) | Up to £180,000 + Equity
A high‑growth tech business is hiring a Growth Analytics Lead to shape company‑wide strategy across product, commercial and customer performance. You’ll use data to drive adoption, activation, retention and revenue outcomes.
The Company Fast‑scaling tech business with strong data foundations. The analytics team partners across product, commercial and operations to support growth and improve customer outcomes. They now need a commercially minded analytics leader for their next phase.
The Role
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Drive product adoption, activation and retention through data insights
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Analyse customer behaviour to identify growth opportunities
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Develop pricing, monetisation and revenue insights
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Design and measure experiments
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Partner with product/engineering on measurement frameworks
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Present recommendations to senior stakeholders
Your Skills & Experience
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Growth/Product/Commercial Analytics or Data Science background
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Advanced SQL + BI tools
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Strong experimentation and measurement knowledge
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Customer behaviour and growth metrics experience
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Ability to turn analysis into clear business actions
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Excellent stakeholder communication
What They Offer
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Up to £180,000 + equity
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High‑impact role with ownership
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Senior leadership exposure
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Strong progression
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Collaborative, data‑driven culture
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Staff AI Engineer
$200000 - $600000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentNew York
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Staff AI Engineer
(Hands‑on, LLM Platforms, Technical Lead)
Location: New York
Working model: On‑site
Package: $250,000 + Equity + Bonus
The Opportunity
An established, technology‑driven organisation is building a central AI engineering capability to support complex, data‑intensive decision‑making across the business.
This is a high‑impact individual contributor role for a Senior AI Engineer who enjoys operating close to the commercial core. You’ll take ownership of critical AI systems from architecture through to deployment, working within a small, trusted technical group with direct access to senior stakeholders.
The environment suits someone who thrives in low‑bureaucracy, high‑autonomy settings, where AI is expected to deliver real, measurable value, not experiments for experimentation’s sake.
The Role
You will act as the technical lead for advanced AI tooling, owning system design and delivery across a range of internal use cases.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and building LLM‑based applications, including retrieval‑augmented generation and agent‑style workflows
- Owning end‑to‑end system architecture, performance, and scalability
- Developing AI tools to support research, monitoring, knowledge discovery, and decision support
- Establishing evaluation and quality frameworks to ensure AI outputs meet high reliability standards
- Reviewing code, setting engineering standards, and supporting the development of other engineers
- Partnering closely with non‑technical users to translate complex workflows into intuitive AI products
- Assessing third‑party tooling and platforms where appropriate
This is a deeply hands‑on role with real ownership.
What We’re Looking For
Core requirements:
- Strong software engineering background (Python preferred)
- Proven experience building production AI systems, particularly modern LLM applications
- Solid understanding of:
- Prompt design and iteration
- Embedding pipelines and vector databases
- RAG architectures and tool‑use patterns
- Model evaluation and monitoring
- Experience deploying AI products used by non‑technical stakeholders
- Comfortable setting technical direction while remaining a builder
Nice to have:
- Exposure to complex analytical or commercial domains
- Experience working in small, senior engineering teams
- Background in cloud‑native environments
Why Join?
- Ownership of mission‑critical AI systems
- Direct visibility of impact, your work will be used day‑to‑day
- Modern AI stack with freedom to make technical decisions
- Long‑term scope to shape and grow the AI engineering function
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Research & Insights Consultant
City of London
£400 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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RESEARCH & INSIGHTS CONSULTANT
£400 – £450 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
HYBRID (2-3 DAYS PW IN THE OFFICE – LONDON)
1 MONTH CONTRACT
THE COMPANY:
This is an opportunity to join a leading global social-first creative and marketing agency, partnering with some of the world’s best-known consumer and financial services brands. The business specialises in creating and measuring high-impact social media campaigns, helping global organisations understand content performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness through data-driven insights.
THE ROLE:
As a Research & Insights Consultant, you will provide senior-level leadership across the agency’s research and insight function, ensuring high-quality strategic outputs for a portfolio of global clients. Your responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the production of monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), ensuring all outputs are accurate, insightful and client-ready.
- Quality assuring reports and recommendations produced by junior researchers and analysts.
- Turning complex social media and campaign performance data into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.
- Presenting insights, findings and strategic recommendations to senior client stakeholders.
- Providing consultancy on social media performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness.
- Working with social listening and social intelligence data to identify trends, opportunities and competitor activity.
- Supporting client services teams by answering research and measurement queries and providing strategic guidance.
- Developing insight-led business cases, case studies and supporting materials for client proposals.
- Ensuring reporting is delivered to a consistently high standard while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The successful Research & Insights Consultant will have:
- Extensive experience delivering research, insight and measurement projects within a social-first, media or agency environment.
- Strong experience producing and presenting monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for senior stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in social listening, social intelligence and social media measurement.
- Hands-on experience using platforms such as Sprinklr, Talkwalker, Pulsar, Emplifi or similar social analytics tools.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate large datasets, identify trends and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience transforming complex analysis into engaging client-ready presentations and insight-led storytelling.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to present findings and recommendations to senior client audiences.
- Experience overseeing the quality assurance of reporting and mentoring junior researchers or analysts.
- Previous experience delivering consumer research, campaign effectiveness or social strategy projects.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Mojola Coker via the apply link on this page.
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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)
London
£400 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)
Hybrid
London-based
£400-450 per day
Outside IR35
1-Month Contract
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading agency environment on a high-impact short-term project. You will step into a senior oversight role, ensuring the quality and accuracy of social media research and reporting delivered to high-profile clients, while providing strategic guidance to both internal teams and senior stakeholders.
The Company
They are a well-established insights and research organisation that helps brands understand audience engagement, digital performance, and social media effectiveness. Working across a range of sectors, they deliver data-driven recommendations that inform business and marketing decisions. Their teams combine research, analytics, and consulting expertise to support complex client programmes.
The Role and Deliverables
- Oversee the delivery of monthly social media research and reporting across multiple client accounts.
- Quality assure data, analysis, and insights produced by junior team members.
- Review social media performance metrics and identify any issues, inconsistencies, or opportunities within the data.
- Support the creation of client-ready reports, presentations, and recommendations.
- Act as a trusted consultant, responding to client questions and providing expert guidance.
- Present findings and insights to senior stakeholders, ensuring clear and actionable communication.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in social media research, analytics, or insight generation.
- Knowledge of major social media platforms and the metrics used to measure performance and engagement.
- Hands-on experience with social listening and analytics tools such as Sprinklr and Talkwalker.
- Ability to extract, analyse, and validate data before translating findings into presentations and reports.
- Experience developing or supporting social media strategies informed by research and performance insights.
- Confident working directly with senior stakeholders and communicating complex findings clearly.
- Exposure to financial services or insurance clients would be beneficial.
How to Apply
Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.
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Lead Data Scientist
New York
$90 - $120
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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Lead Data Scientist (Contract)
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is currently partnering with a fast-growing financial technology organization focused on helping small businesses access the funding they need to grow and succeed. The business leverages data-driven decision-making to deliver innovative financial products and services.
- Role: Lead Data Scientist (Contract)
- Location: New York, NY
- Pay: $90-120 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 a Lead Data Scientist, you will join a high-performing Risk & Analytics team, working on customer, borrower, and investor analytics initiatives. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the business to develop analytical frameworks, drive strategic decision-making, and deliver data-driven insights that support business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Learn and understand business needs, developing analytical frameworks to solve complex business problems.
- Recommend optimal business strategies using historical performance analysis, predictive analytics, and scenario modelling.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement analytical recommendations and business initiatives.
- Partner with marketing teams to support ongoing customer management strategies across multiple channels.
- Create and maintain automated management information reporting to track business performance and support external stakeholders.
- Design and develop predictive models and testing frameworks while driving analytics best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, finance-related, or similar field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience in analytics, ideally within financial services, business finance, credit products, or e-commerce environments.
- Strong coding skills in SQL, Python, and/or R.
- Proven ability to solve complex problems using analytical and statistical methods.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Scientist to join a fast-paced, data-driven organization and influence key business decisions through advanced analytics and modelling. You’ll work alongside talented cross-functional teams, solve high-impact business challenges, and help shape strategic outcomes at scale.
Interested? Apply today through Harnham.
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Business Analyst
London
£60000 - £80000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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BUSINESS ANALYST
London/Bristol/ Hybrid
UP TO £80,000
This is an opportunity to join a newly created Business Analyst position at the centre of a major transformation programme. Sitting within a growing business transformation function, you will play a key role in shaping future ways of working, driving operational improvement, and helping the organisation become increasingly AI-enabled.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Business Analyst will:
- Elicit, analyse and document business requirements across strategic change programmes
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews and discovery sessions
- Review and redesign business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Conduct root cause analysis and problem definition for new business initiatives
- Assess and shape ideas progressing through an innovation governance framework
- Identify opportunities for workflow optimisation, process automation and AI adoption
- Produce high-quality business analysis artefacts including process maps, business cases and requirements documentation
- Support solution design, implementation planning and business readiness activities
- Work closely with senior stakeholders, project managers and subject matter experts to drive successful outcomes
- Help move ideas from concept through to approved investment and delivery
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience as a Business Analyst within transformation, change, or business improvement programmes
- Excellent requirements gathering and stakeholder management capabilities
- Experience facilitating workshops and influencing a range of stakeholders
- Strong process mapping, business process improvement and analysis skills
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments
- Experience introducing or working within governance frameworks
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience producing clear documentation, recommendations and business cases
- Interest in innovation, operational excellence and emerging AI technologies
- Professional services experience would be advantageous
- Banking sector experience is not a requirement
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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 (5 days a week in office) | Salary up to £180,000
This is a rare opportunity to own growth outcomes at a fast-scaling technology business where product adoption and usage sit at the heart of commercial success. Working closely with senior leadership, you will combine analytics, experimentation, and execution to drive measurable impact across the customer journey.
The Company
They are an innovative technology business experiencing strong growth and high levels of customer engagement. With a product already demonstrating significant market traction, their focus is on scaling adoption, increasing usage, and unlocking further expansion opportunities across their client base.
The business offers a highly collaborative environment where data-driven decision-making is central to success. You will work alongside experienced leaders and cross-functional teams to influence strategy and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
The Role
As the Growth & Product Analytics Lead, you will take ownership of key growth metrics and identify opportunities to increase product adoption, engagement, and expansion.
Responsibilities include:
- Driving activation and onboarding to improve product adoption rates.
- Identifying opportunities for account expansion through data analysis and user behaviour insights.
- Increasing engagement across product features, platforms, and customer touchpoints.
- Analysing usage trends and delivering recommendations to support revenue growth.
- Defining product instrumentation and telemetry requirements to improve decision-making.
- Building, testing, and implementing solutions rather than relying solely on recommendations.
- Designing and evaluating experiments to measure the impact of growth initiatives.
- Partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience driving growth metrics within a B2B or enterprise environment.
- Advanced SQL skills and the ability to work confidently with modern data warehouses.
- Experience using analytics, reporting, and data transformation tools.
- Strong understanding of experimentation, measurement, and product analytics.
- Ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
- Experience building automated solutions, workflows, or analytical products.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
How to Apply
If you are passionate about growth analytics, product analytics, and driving measurable business impact, apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
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Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London
£100000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London (Office-based – 5 days per week)
Salary: Up to £180,000 + Excellent Benefits
A high-growth technology business is looking for a Growth Analytics Lead to join, working directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to drive strategic, data-led decision making.
This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded analytics leader to own the insights behind growth, product and go-to-market strategy. Rather than producing reports or dashboards, you’ll identify opportunities, build solutions, influence business decisions and measure their impact.
What you’ll be doing
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Own analytics across product, commercial and growth initiatives
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Identify opportunities to improve customer activation, adoption and retention
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Deliver insights on pricing, monetisation and expansion opportunities
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Design and analyse product experiments
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Build robust analytics using SQL, dbt and modern data platforms
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Translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
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Partner closely with leadership to shape company strategy
What we’re looking for
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Strong experience in Growth, Product or Commercial Analytics
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Hands-on technical skills with SQL and modern analytics tools
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Proven ability to influence commercial outcomes through data
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Experience within a high-growth SaaS or technology environment
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
What’s on offer
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Salary up to £180,000
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Comprehensive benefits package
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Direct exposure to the CEO and executive leadership
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Significant ownership and autonomy
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Opportunity to shape the growth strategy of a rapidly scaling technology business
If you’re a commercially focused analytics professional who enjoys solving complex business problems and wants to make a measurable impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Find out more and apply via the link below!
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