Head of Data, BlaBlaCar
Engineering
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
BlaBlaCar's mission is to leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.
Role
Who you are
- Strong managerial track record
- Strong leadership and communication skills (written and oral)
- Experience in building Data and AI-driven products
- Strong business acumen and ability to be a creative and reliable product and business partner
- Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of achieving results
- Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Aligned with our company culture
- Fluent in English
- Nice to have: experience managing managers
- If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!
What the job involves
- As Head of Data, you will be responsible for defining and executing the BlaBlaCar’s Data strategy, ensuring it aligns with our overall business objectives
- You will lead a team of 40 data professionals organized into business-oriented squads, overseeing everything from data warehousing and analytics to data science and AI model development
- You’re leading the adoption of AI throughout the company as part of BlaBlaCar’s AI strategy
- This covers three key areas: improving our product with AI-powered features, streamlining / transforming our ways of working in Software development or Customer Service, and driving organic adoption for all employees
- This will require a blend of deep technical understanding, leadership skills, and a strategic mindset
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of managers and individual contributors
- Foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration within the data department
- Drive professional growth and career development for all team members
- Define and articulate the long-term vision and strategy for our data organization, ensuring alignment with company goals and anticipating future needs, particularly in the AI space
- Spearhead the exploration and adoption of new data technologies and methodologies, especially those related to AI
- Guide the company's transition to leverage AI effectively in its products and operations
- Identify and resolve trade-offs and misalignments within or outside the Data department (including Product and Business)
- Partner closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand their data needs, deliver impactful solutions, and drive data-driven decision-making across the organization
- Ensure teams define and meet industry-standard feature and service SLOs
- Embody and promote BlaBlaCar values across the teams
- Take ownership of engineering policy, guidelines, and associated ways of working
Application process
- A 45-min video-call with your Talent Acquisition Manager Elodie, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- You’ll receive a case study as a basis for questions during the interviews
- A 60-min video-call with our CTO Nicolas Salvy to test your leadership and growth mindset
- A 60-min video-call with 2 or 3 engineering and product team members to evaluate your business prioritization and team work
- A 45-min video-call with a Data Manager and one Business stakeholder to explore team management and technical expertise
- A 30-min video-call with our CTO Nicolas Salvy for vision fit and rounding off the process
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.
BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace for connecting travelers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.
Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$118.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $570.1m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- A fair & competitive salary package
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
Leadership
Frédéric Mazzella
(President)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO)Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.
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