Head of Data & AI (f/m/x)
Vimcar
Software Engineering, IT, Data Science
Germany
Posted on Jan 15, 2025
We’re on a mission to unify data across Shiftmove, ensuring every business decision is driven by clear, actionable insights. As a maturing company, we’re tackling ambitious challenges in data infrastructure, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate growth and optimize operations.
As our Head of Data & AI you will design and execute our enterprise data strategy while leading a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, GTM business analysts, and data scientists. You’ll own the end-to-end delivery of key programs, optimize our data systems for scale and agility, and drive alignment across GTM, product, and finance teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role that combines program management expertise with strategic data leadership. You’ll define what success looks like for the team, streamline how we work with data, and play an important role in shaping our data-first approach for future M&A integrations and business growth.
What You’ll Do
- Define and execute our enterprise data strategy, aligning it with business goals and ensuring timely delivery of cross-functional data programs.
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of data engineers and analysts, fostering alignment across GTM, product, and engineering teams.
- Drive AI initiatives to optimize business efficiencies, streamline data unification, and improve customer and product data insights.
- Oversee data architecture, pipelines, and governance frameworks to ensure compliance (e.g., GDPR) and scalability.
- Develop frameworks and playbooks for M&A data integrations, creating repeatable structures and tools for managing complex projects.
- Be the visible leader for data strategy, ensuring prioritization and seamless communication across all levels of the organization.
What Success Looks Like
- In the first 3 months, you’ll establish clear priorities for the data team, implement a program management framework, and launch initial projects to unify product and customer data.
- By 6 months, you’ll have delivered a repeatable playbook for data unification and integration, with visible improvements in GTM data insights and alignment across teams.
- Within 12 months, you’ll have successfully integrated data systems from recent acquisitions, optimized business intelligence tools, and demonstrated measurable efficiencies in AI-driven initiatives.
Your Profile
- Program Management Expertise: Proven ability to drive complex, cross-functional projects to successful outcomes.
- Experience leading data teams, with a track record of unifying and improving data systems.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in SQL, Python, and cloud platforms.
- First hand experience integrating AI solutions into business operations.
- Strong ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders, particularly in GTM functions.
- Bonus if you’ve worked on integrating data systems during mergers or acquisitions.
Why This Role Is Special
- High Impact: Your hands-on leadership will directly shape the success of future integrations, data unification efforts, and operational efficiency.
- Collaboration: Work closely with key leaders across sales, marketing, product, and engineering to align data strategy with business outcomes.
Why Join Us
- Join a profitable company with a significant technological focus on simplicity
- Work with a critical piece at the heart of our growth strategy
- Be part of a flexible, minimal-hierarchy company where you can bounce off ideas and grow within an open-minded team.
- Personal growth investment with a clear career path, internal mobility options, mentorship, and an annual development stipend (€2,000).
- Own your role without micromanagement, supported by a collaborative team in a low-pressure environment designed for focused, impactful work.
- Enjoy flexible remote work in Germany, with options for a hybrid setup from ShiftTower, Berlin.
- Mental health support via Nilo.health and access to a range of company benefits like Urban Sports Club, JobRad, BVG ticket support, and more.
- Option to work remotely for two months from any location worldwide.
- (If relocating) Assistance with a smooth transition to Berlin with support from our relocation team.
