The Data And AI Podcast

This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

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Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

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Full Stack Engineering Tech Lead

San Francisco

$200000 - $300000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Title: Engineering Manager, Full Stack

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco

Client: Series A HR Technology Company

The Opportunity

This is a player-coach role built for a senior engineer who wants to lead without leaving the craft behind. You will spend the majority of your time, roughly 70%, as a hands-on contributor: writing production code, designing systems, and solving hard technical problems alongside your team. The other 30% is spent leading a small, tight-knit group of engineers, roughly five, through mentorship, delivery ownership, and technical direction.

What You’ll Own

  • Hands-on development of full-stack features spanning React/TypeScript frontends and distributed backend systems, as a daily contributor
  • Architecture and design of scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) powering metrics and AI-driven workflows
  • Technical direction and code quality standards for a team of approximately five engineers
  • Mentorship, career development, and day-to-day delivery ownership for your direct reports
  • Pragmatic technical decision-making that balances speed-to-market with long-term system health
  • Hands-on work with modern infrastructure including PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and streaming technologies

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong full-stack foundation and a genuine love of building
  • 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead capacity, ideally in a player-coach model with direct reports and delivery ownership
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and at least one backend language (Ruby, Python, or Node.js)
  • Deep expertise in React, HTML/CSS, modern frontend tooling, component-based architecture, and state management
  • Proven experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems in data-intensive environments
  • Solid fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, and design documentation practices
  • Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, microservices, containerization)

Nice to Haves

  • React Native experience for mobile development
  • Familiarity with Redis, Apache Pinot, or other real-time analytics infrastructure

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Senior Marketing Analyst (Contract)

London

£400 - £400

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London-based

£400 per day (Outside IR35)

6-Month Contract

Hybrid

This freelance project offers the opportunity to play a key role in shaping marketing decision-making for a large consumer-focused retail business. You will be central to turning data into insight that drives campaign performance, customer engagement and commercial outcomes within a fast-moving environment.

The Company

They are a well-established fashion retailer with a strong multichannel presence and a data-led approach to marketing. Customer understanding sits at the heart of their strategy, with analytics used to inform planning, optimisation and investment decisions. The organisation values clear insight, collaboration and practical impact.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Deliver marketing analysis to support campaign performance, optimisation and planning.
  • Analyse customer and marketing data to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.
  • Provide clear, actionable insight to inform marketing and commercial stakeholders.
  • Support measurement frameworks across channels including digital and CRM activity.
  • Develop reporting and insight outputs suitable for senior audiences.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in marketing analytics within a fashion or retail environment.
  • Proven ability to analyse campaign and customer data to drive insight and action.
  • Confidence working with stakeholders across marketing and commercial teams.
  • Experience operating in a fast-paced, consumer-led business.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate data into clear recommendations.

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.

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Senior Loyalty Analyst (Contract)

London

£400 - £400

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Senior Loyalty Analyst

London-based

£400 per day (Outside IR35)

3-Month Contract

Hybrid – 2 days in the office

This is a high-impact freelance opportunity to join a well-known fashion retail business at a pivotal moment in its customer and loyalty journey. You will play a key role in shaping how customer data is used to drive retention, engagement and commercial performance across a dynamic retail environment.

The Company

They are a large, consumer-facing fashion retailer with a strong brand presence and a fast-paced, data-driven culture. The business places a strong emphasis on understanding customer behaviour and using insight to inform decision-making. With loyalty and CRM high on the agenda, analytics is seen as a critical enabler of growth.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Own and deliver loyalty and customer analytics to support retention and engagement strategies.
  • Analyse customer behaviour across channels to identify trends, opportunities and risks.
  • Produce actionable insight to inform loyalty propositions, campaigns and personalisation activity.
  • Partner with CRM, marketing and commercial teams to influence decision-making through data.
  • Develop clear, concise reporting and insight outputs for senior stakeholders.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in loyalty or customer analytics within a fashion or retail environment.
  • Proven ability to work with large customer datasets and translate analysis into clear insight.
  • Confident working with stakeholders across marketing, CRM and commercial functions.
  • Experience delivering insight in a fast-paced, consumer-led business.
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to balance detail and commercial impact.

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£70000 - £85000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst
London | Up to £85,000 plus equity

This is a high-impact analytics role sitting at the heart of growth and marketing decision-making within a fast-paced, product-led environment. You will work on complex attribution and customer journey challenges, with real influence over how marketing investment is measured and optimised, particularly across a key international growth market.

The Company
They are a highly data-driven digital business operating in consumer financial products. The organisation is well established, commercially successful, and known for its strong analytics culture. Teams are lean, collaborative, and focused on using data to drive measurable outcomes. The business is continuing to scale internationally, with analytics playing a central role in that growth.

The Role

  • Partner closely with growth and marketing teams to support performance analysis and strategic decision-making.
  • Analyse marketing spend across digital channels to assess effectiveness and return on investment.
  • Track and evaluate customer acquisition sources to understand channel contribution and efficiency.
  • Develop and improve attribution approaches, including multi-touch attribution, while accounting for privacy and tracking limitations.
  • Optimise marketing and application funnels by identifying drop-offs and conversion opportunities.
  • Analyse end-to-end customer journeys across multiple financial products and recommend alternative pathways where appropriate.
  • Build models to answer complex commercial questions, such as the incremental impact of new channels or campaigns.
  • Apply statistical and experimental techniques to support testing, measurement, and business decisions.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial marketing analytics experience within a consumer-facing digital environment.
  • Advanced capability in SQL and Python, with Python used for modelling and analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with attribution modelling and evaluating marketing effectiveness.
  • Experience analysing complex customer journeys and funnel performance.
  • Comfortable working with experimentation, uplift measurement, and statistical techniques.
  • Confident communicator, able to translate analysis into clear, actionable insight for senior stakeholders.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £85,000.
  • Equity as part of the overall package.
  • A role with genuine ownership and exposure to senior growth and marketing leadership.
  • A high-performing, data-led environment with strong standards and clear impact.
  • Hybrid working, with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday based in a London office.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply to learn more about the role and the wider analytics team.

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Analytics Manager

London

£100000 - £120000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Analytics Manager

London (Remote First) | Up to £120,000

This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of an analytics function within a fast‑growing, product‑led business. You will shape how data drives decision making, lead a growing team, and work across high‑impact commercial and product areas.

The Company

They are a scaling technology business operating in a highly regulated, data‑rich environment. Data sits at the heart of their product, trading and growth strategy, and they are investing heavily in maturing their analytics capabilities. You will join a collaborative, pragmatic and impact‑focused team that partners closely with stakeholders across the organisation.

The Role

* Lead and develop a team of Analysts and Analytics Engineers.
* Act as the primary analytics partner for senior stakeholders across Growth, Trading, Product, Finance and Compliance.
* Translate business problems into clear analytical questions, metrics and decision‑ready insight.
* Review and challenge analytical work to ensure accuracy, clarity and scalability.
* Drive best practice across SQL, data modelling, documentation and quality standards.
* Prioritise work effectively based on value, impact and capacity.
* Communicate findings, risks and trade‑offs clearly to non‑technical teams.

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience in analytics or analytics leadership.
* High proficiency in SQL, with the ability to write, review and challenge complex queries.
* Comfortable managing and developing a small analytics team.
* Experience working with stakeholders in product, growth or trading style environments.
* Familiarity with regulated industries such as gaming, gambling, finance or fintech.
* Experience with BI tools such as Omni, Looker or similar is beneficial.
* A statistical foundation and comfort being tested on analytical thinking.
* Experience in fast‑paced start‑ups or scale‑ups, comfortable wearing multiple hats.

What They Offer

* Salary up to £120,000.
* Remote‑first working with London as the primary hub.
* Opportunity to shape an analytics function as it scales.
* Work across high‑impact commercial and product challenges.
* Clear progression into senior analytics or data leadership roles.

How to Apply

If you are an experienced Analytics Manager looking for a high‑impact role in London, please apply with your CV to discuss this opportunity further.

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Senior Product Analyst

London

£65000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Product Analyst – £80,000 (Hybrid – London)

Industry: Global Consumer Marketplace / App
Department: Product & Insights

A leading global marketplace is hiring a Senior Product Analyst to partner with product, engineering, design, and ML teams to shape the future of a mobile-first product used worldwide.

What You’ll Do

  • Act as the lead data scientist for a core product domain

  • Drive deep product analytics to uncover opportunities for growth and engagement

  • Design, analyse, and interpret experiments across the product ecosystem

  • Influence product strategy by connecting insights to business goals

  • Improve datasets, dashboards, and analytical tooling

  • Work closely with ML teams on discovery, ranking, and personalisation initiatives

What We’re Looking For

  • Expert-level SQL + solid Python for product analytics

  • Hands-on A/B testing experience (design + interpretation)

  • Strong understanding of ETL/debugging data issues

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

  • Commercially-minded with experience balancing user and business needs

  • Bonus: marketplace experience or exposure to ML-driven products

Why Apply

  • High-impact role shaping core product decisions

  • Great benefits, flexible work, and strong wellbeing support

  • Opportunity to work closely with ML teams and influence a global user experience

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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Senior Marketing Analyst – Experimentation

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst (Experimentation)
Fully Remote (UK) | Up to £70,000 plus equity options and quarterly bonus

A chance to join a growing, data-driven consumer marketplace where experimentation, journey analysis and optimisation genuinely shape business decisions. This role offers real impact as they scale their data capability and embed experimentation across marketing and product.

The Company
They are a fast-growing, subscription-based consumer platform operating within a two-sided marketplace model. Their users rely on trusted interactions, and data plays a crucial role in powering acquisition, conversion and customer experience. They have recently invested in modernising their data environment and have built a central data function including engineering, analytics and data science. With new tooling and ambitious plans, they are expanding their Marketing Analytics team to support continued growth.

The Role
As a Senior Marketing Analyst focused on Experimentation, you will play a key role in shaping how the business tests, learns and optimises. You will:
* Analyse the full user journey to understand behaviour, friction points and conversion opportunities.
* Identify what is driving or hindering performance across the acquisition and onsite funnel.
* Design, run and analyse A/B tests and experiments to validate hypotheses and inform decisions.
* Build experimentation frameworks and contribute to scaling a more mature testing culture.
* Work closely with marketing and product teams to improve acquisition efficiency and conversion performance.
* Provide insight into behavioural drivers and optimisation opportunities across channels and touchpoints.
* Contribute to wider marketing measurement, journey analytics and data foundations.

Your Skills and Experience
You will be suited to this Senior Marketing Analyst role if you have:
* Strong commercial experience using SQL to work with large data sets.
* Experience using tools such as Tableau or Looker, or similar BI platforms.
* A background in product analytics, marketing analytics or growth analytics.
* Hands-on experience designing, running and analysing A/B tests and experiments.
* Experience in environments such as marketplaces, start-ups or scale-ups.
* Confident stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear insights.

What They Offer
* £70,000 depending on experience.
* Equity options and a quarterly bonus scheme.
* Fully remote working within the UK.
* The opportunity to influence experimentation strategy and measurement at an early stage.
* High-impact work across marketing, product and growth.
* Progression opportunities as the data and analytics function continues to scale.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this Senior Marketing Analyst (Experimentation) position, please apply with your CV to be considered.

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Data Analyst – Customer/Marketing

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Data Analyst
London (hybrid, 2 days per week) | Up to £55,000

This is a great opportunity to join a growing data and analytics consultancy where you will work on varied, client-facing projects that have real commercial impact. You will sit between data, insight, and decision-making, helping organisations better understand their customers through thoughtful, high-quality analysis.

The Company
They are a UK-based data and analytics consultancy that combines large-scale proprietary data with advanced analytics and insight delivery. Working as a solutions partner, they support clients across sectors such as utilities, energy, telecommunications, financial services, charities, and consumer brands. Their focus is on helping organisations unlock value from complex data through practical, outcome-driven analytics.

The Role
As a Data Analyst, you will work closely with clients to translate business problems into clear analytical solutions. You will be involved across the full project lifecycle, from early discovery through to delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Gathering requirements and running data discovery and stakeholder sessions
  • Exploring, cleaning, and analysing complex, often ambiguous datasets
  • Combining multiple data sources into a single analytical view
  • Producing insight through analysis, reports, and dashboards
  • Presenting findings and translating technical outputs into clear commercial insight
  • Working alongside data scientists, project managers, and subject matter experts on client projects

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in a data or analytics role
  • Excellent SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
  • Experience using Python for analysis is highly desirable
  • Confidence working directly with clients and presenting insight to stakeholders
  • Experience building dashboards in Power BI or similar BI tools such as Tableau or Qlik
  • A curious, analytical mindset with the ability to work independently and ask the right questions

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £50,000, with flexibility to £55,000 for an exceptional candidate
  • Hybrid working with two days per week in a London office
  • Exposure to a wide variety of clients, sectors, and analytical challenges
  • Clear opportunities to develop technical capability and consulting skills
  • Supportive team environment with access to specialist data, engineering, and science functions

How to Apply
If you are a Data Analyst looking to deepen your client-facing experience and work on meaningful analytics projects, apply now to find out more.

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