Head of Data
& Intelligence
Our edge has always been people: the network, the judgment, the hustle.The next edge is making everything those people learn compound. You build the foundation that does it, as the first hire of a new function.
You build the infrastructure, the data layer and the tooling, then turn it into an edge the firm wins with.
The data platform, the intelligence layer on top of it, and the governance that makes both trusted.
The data platform
Warehouse, ingestion, entity resolution. One person, one company, one deal, consistent across every source.
The intelligence layer
Retrieval, search and agent tooling that give everyone's AI real firm context.
Access and trust
Who sees what, with identity, provenance and audit. Structural enforcement, not instructions.
The tool estate
Whether the firm's systems are the right ones. Buy when buying is better, build when building is better.
A foundation inside six months. A firm running on it inside twelve.
First six months
The foundation is in, and the first tools you built on top of it are already in use.
By twelve months
V1 of the shared intelligence layer live and in daily use. Diligence made genuinely multiplayer.
Beyond
The roadmap is yours. How the firm wins deals, who we know in seconds, tools founders can self-serve.
It gets better as people work, and as the models improve.
Within a year, everyone at the firm can point to something you built that made their work better.
You ship personally. Usage is the metric.
Builder first
You ship. This is not a role for someone who wants a team of ten doing the building.
Co-creation
Investment, platform, marketing and operations steer, test and tune what you build.
Product discipline
Prototype, validate with real users, kill what doesn't get adopted. Expect churn and budget for it.
Scale deliberately
You start solo. As the foundation proves out, you orchestrate build resources and grow the function.
You have shipped a real data and AI product end to end, and people actually used it.
Hands-on and deep
Data architecture, warehousing and governance. Fluent with embeddings, retrieval and agents that act.
Governance as product
You treat access control and provenance as features, not as compliance chores.
Low ego, high agency
Energised by a blank page, and drawn to the unglamorous work everything else depends on.
Three things this job is not, so you don't have to guess.
Not IT operations
Endpoint, device and office infrastructure sit with our managed IT partner.
Not reg compliance
Policy and DORA are owned by legal, with your input on anything AI.
Not a reporting function
You build systems that answer questions, not dashboards on request.
A blank canvas, real ownership and hands-on responsibility from day one.
If you love building things people actually use, apply below. Or send someone brilliant our way.
Bring your CV or LinkedIn profile and answers to these two questions, as a short video or in writing.
- What excites you about this role, and why would you be a good fit?
- Tell us about an AI or data tool you've built or rolled out that people use regularly.