Overview
As Head of Data Operations, you’ll anchor the D&I team’s operations, ensuring plans are well defined, resourced, and delivered. You’ll directly manage and develop Analytics Engineers and Analytics Developers while coordinating cross-functional processes with the VP of Data & Insight and other domain leads. Your role combines planning, process improvement, and team leadership to keep a fast-moving data function on track. This is a chance to shape scalable data delivery in a high-growth, mission-driven company.
Pay / Benefits
- 27 days holiday plus 5 extra days (life event, volunteer, wellbeing)
- private medical insurance with Bupa and life insurance
- gym membership and wellness resources
- hybrid work: ~3 days in office, some roles monthly in-office
- work-from-anywhere: up to 10 days/year
- Wellbeing and kitchen amenities
Responsibilities
- Own D&I’s operational planning process with properly scoped, resourced projects
- Translate roadmap priorities into structured plans with owners, timelines and dependencies
- Monitor milestones, identify risks and coordinate solutions to keep work on track
- Manage team capacity across Analytics Engineers and Analytics Developers
- Lead D&I team ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, quarterly planning)
- Triage and coordinate inbound support requests across the business
- Represent D&I in Multiverse-wide planning and roadmap processes
- Maintain and optimize D&I tooling (e.g., Asana, Claude) for visibility
- Coordinate across D&I to reduce friction and enable high-impact work
- Identify and implement process improvements and standardisation
- Develop playbooks and templates to ensure high-quality, low-overhead delivery
- Track operational metrics (e.g., velocity, throughput) to drive improvements
- Coach and develop team members through 1:1s and targeted learning
- Support recruitment and onboarding of Analytics Engineers & Developers
- Collaborate with Director of Data Engineering, Domain D&I Leads and other stakeholders
- Engage with Tech and Ops teams to align ways of working
Key requirements
- 6+ years in data, analytics or technical operations in a fast-moving environment
- 2+ years directly managing and developing technical teams
- Proven delivery planning and operational coordination experience
- Strong experience running team ceremonies and agile processes
- Experience triaging inbound support across multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience with roadmap participation and cross-functional coordination
- Hands-on experience with project management tools (Asana, Jira or similar)
- Passion for people development and coaching across careers
- Highly organized with strong prioritisation and attention to detail
- Clear, confident communicator for technical and non-technical audiences
- Pragmatic problem-solver for fast-moving, ambiguous contexts
- Familiarity with modern data tooling and analytics workflows
- Right to work in the UK and ability to work from Multiverse London office 3+ days/week
- Commitment to Multiverse’s mission and values
- people development
- clear communication
- collaboration
- Asana
- Jira
- data analytics/tools familiarity
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