Head of Data Analytics, HolidayPirates
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International travel company
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International travel company
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy to find the best travel deals.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience in data/analytics roles, with at least 5 years in a lead or managerial capacity
- Proven experience managing cross-functional data teams (BI, ML, DE, analytics)
- Able to translate business needs into robust data models and scalable architecture
- Strong understanding of the data product lifecycle—from ingestion to model deployment (NLP/ML/DL)
- Practical experience with GA4, BigQuery, GCP/AWS, data orchestration and pipelining with Y42/DBT, On premise and cloud data stores, Python, Looker/Tableau
- Practical experience with project management and agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)
- Comfortable balancing business objectives with technical feasibility and team capacity
- A strong communicator and stakeholder manager who can manage up and across the organization
- Ability to manage up and across: strong communicator and stakeholder manager
- Familiarity with web/app tracking, GA4, data engineering workflows, and data tooling
- Experience with cost centre management and strategic hiring decisions
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on Head of Data Analytics to lead our cross-functional data team through its next phase: one focused on high-impact analytics, productisation and AI transformation
- You’ll guide a skilled team of data professionals across business intelligence, data engineering, machine learning, and web/app analytics — while also ensuring strategic alignment with product, marketing, and content
- This role combines team leadership with delivery ownership, analytics impact, and technical oversight. You’ll be part of shaping how HolidayPirates uses data to scale faster, act smarter, and build the future of travel discovery
- Strategic Impact & Delivery
- Be accountable for the business impact of data initiatives, ensuring that all projects deliver meaningful outcomes, not just outputs
- Synthesize complex insights and communicate their business impact clearly to leadership and key stakeholders
- Translate company and department goals into a clear, actionable data roadmap
- Define success metrics and create structured, insight-led feedback loops to enable proactive decision-making at all levels
- Align priorities across stakeholders and manage sprint-level trade-offs to ensure efficient delivery
- Communicate progress and key insights clearly to leadership and peers
- Analytics & Strategy
- Drive KPI alignment and standardization across all departments, ensuring they effectively support business tracking and reporting
- Own the global data model and unification strategy, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all domains
- Design data systems and architecture with future growth in mind (e.g., increased traffic, more advanced ML models, and real-time data needs)
- Lead the development of dashboards, models, pipelines, and insights frameworks
- Frame and prioritize business-aligned ML and analytics use cases
- Team & People Leadership
- Lead a team of 5–7 data experts (BI, ML, DE, CRO)
- Give regular feedback, define growth paths, and support mentoring
- Own hiring and onboarding for the team; contribute to org design
- Foster a high-trust, learning-driven team culture with shared accountability
- Act as a key partner to product, content, and marketing; build strong bridges across teams
- Operational & Technical Management
- Own the global data model and ensure consistency across domains
- Establish and enforce data quality, access, and compliance standards
- Ensure systems and architecture can scale with company growth
Application process
- Every great treasure hunt (a.k.a. our hiring process) has a few key steps. We see hiring as a two-way adventure — about you getting to know us just as much as us discovering your potential
- HR Interview – A friendly chat to get to know each other
- Technical Deep Dive – Dive into your skills and experience
- Prove Your Craft – A hands-on challenge to show your magic
- Meet the Crew – Connect with future teammates to check the cultural fit
- The Offer – If all goes well, we’ll raise the sails and send you the invite to join our crew!
Our take
On average, Brits spend 18 nights a year overseas, so it's no surprise that the travel industry is in as high demand as ever. Since its inception in 2011, HolidayPirates has established itself throughout Europe and the United States.
Due to its unparalleled social media audience, boasting 11+ million Facebook fans and 2+ million Instagram followers, HolidayPirates values itself for providing the "best value-for-money travel deals" which rapidly gained the company popularity and a faithful online following.
The company claims to only spend 7% of its marketing budget on traffic, showing how effective its social media strategy has been in generating an organic following. With services delivered in 7 languages and more than 9 million app downloads, the company is also seeing an acceleration of payment transactions which indicates the company's continued prominence in the market.
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Company benefits
- Flexible working hours and fully remote working
- A MacBook (also for private use) as well as any other needed equipment including a very lovely remote IT support
- £100 equipment budget every month on top of our salary to comfortably work from home
- £45 tax free cash card per month
- Maternity leave for up to 52 weeks
- Legendary team and company events like summer parties, Christmas parties and more
- Mental health and relaxation sessions
- Further training budget to use as you choose
- Inspiring mates from all over the world
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Igor Simonow
(Co-Founder)Previously a 2018 cohort member of Entrepreneur First.
Sebastian Kaatz
(Co-Founder)Currently Co-Founder of Travel Pirates Corp, was the VP of Special Projects and Products at Holiday Pirates.
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