Data - Engineering

Summary

Join BlaBlaCar as Head of Data and lead a team of 40 data professionals. You will define and execute the company's data strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Lead the adoption of AI across the company, improving products, streamlining workflows, and driving employee adoption. Responsibilities include mentoring the team, defining long-term data strategy, exploring new technologies, resolving misalignments, partnering with stakeholders, ensuring service level objectives are met, and promoting company values. The ideal candidate possesses strong managerial and leadership skills, experience in building data and AI-driven products, strong business acumen, and problem-solving abilities. Fluency in English is required.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing managers