Head of Data (B2B SaaS)

About the role

Gearset has been a data-driven SaaS company from day one, and we're looking for a Head of Data to shape the future of how we collect, model, and leverage our rapidly growing ecosystem of telemetry and customer insights.

Reporting to the SVP of GTM Strategy & Operations, you will guide a multi-disciplinary data Team to foster a thriving internal data community, drive self-serve analytics adoption, and embed data into the heart of our strategic decisions as we scale.

What’s the Opportunity for a Head of Data at Gearset?

• You’ll own Gearset’s data strategy, lead the Data Team and shape the direction for how Gearset collects, models, and utilises data across the entire business.
• Translate an increasing wealth of product telemetry, a growing customer database, and cloud-native backend systems into actionable insights that drive better company-wide decisions.
• Empower teams across Gearset to independently access and learn from our data, enabling them to make high-impact changes to our product and business processes.
• Build and nurture an internal data community, ensuring key business metrics are clearly defined, consistently monitored, and embedded seamlessly into our strategic decision-making.

What You’ll Achieve

• Line manage and develop a multi-disciplinary data team spanning analytics, analytics engineering and data engineering, building business capability within the team.
• Own the data strategy and roadmap, prioritising short and long-term objectives in partnership with stakeholders across the business.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership and non-technical stakeholders to align on priorities, embed analytics into strategic decisions, and provide self-serve tooling and support.
• Guide the future of the Data platform, ensuring the ingestion of necessary data to provide trusted, reusable foundations for company-wide reporting.
• Develop a data community and deliver training that teaches responsible use of data.
• Setting and holding team accountable to software engineering best practices to govern the data platform, including version control, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Lead objective setting and prioritisation for the data function, and report progress against key business metrics to GTM leadership.
• Own data tooling budgets and vendor selection processes
• Work with Legal and Compliance to ensure the data platform and its use meet data protection obligations, including UK GDPR.

About You

• Demonstrated experience developing multi-disciplinary data teams (analytics, data science, data engineering) and delivering a company-wide data roadmap with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience defining a Data team's approach to AI/ML-driven analytics, including evaluating where LLMs and generative AI tooling can improve data workflows or self-serve analytics.
• Deep expertise in SQL and data modelling, coupled with a strong grasp of software engineering principles applied to data (version control, automated testing, CI/CD).
• Strong background working with cloud analytics platforms (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake), transformation tools (dbt), and modern visualisation software (Omni, Looker, Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience establishing data governance and data quality standards.
• Experience driving self-serve analytics adoption and data literacy across non-technical teams.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, define key business metrics, and translate complex data analysis into proactive solutions that drive strategic company decisions and value.

Great to Haves

• Experience working with data in a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience with data integration tools, such as Airbyte, Fivetran or Stitch.
• Working knowledge of privacy laws and compliance frameworks, such as GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

SALARY AND BENEFITS (THE STUFF YOU’D EXPECT!)

• Salary is £100k - £120k (depending on experience)
• This is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday, with flexible home working. For this role, you’ll spend around 4 days a month in the office.
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care and dental insurance
• Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive
• Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits