Director of Data - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Data to join Awin in a remote capacity. This role will empower you to lead our data and AI transformation, ensuring that data drives smarter decisions and sustainable growth across our global organization.

What You'll Do

• Translate Awin’s five data pillars into a clear, multi-year strategy and roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Align data initiatives with product and business priorities and communicate progress and impact to senior leadership.
• Own and evolve our modern cloud data platform to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Champion engineering excellence and support data engineering teams in continuously improving best practices.
• Scale and mature our data science and ML capabilities, including expanding the team over the next two years.
• Implement strong delivery practices for ML models and analytics, including experimentation, monitoring, retraining, and documentation.
• Enable broader self-service analytics by standardizing key datasets, metrics, and data access patterns.
• Lead company-wide data literacy initiatives, ensuring non-technical teams can use tools and insights safely and effectively.

Requirements

• Proven experience defining and executing a data strategy in a product-led tech environment.
• Hands-on experience scaling a modern cloud data platform (lake/warehouse, orchestration, streaming).
• Deep understanding of the full ML lifecycle and MLOps / analytics engineering best practices.
• Leadership experience managing managers and senior ICs within growing or transforming data teams.
• Exceptional communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience implementing data architecture standards, data contracts, and governance across domains.
• Strong advocate for data quality, ethics, and responsible AI.

What We Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: Enjoy a flexible four-day workweek at full pay with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance.
• Flexi-Office: Work in a hybrid/remote setup that allows you to connect with colleagues across Awin regions.
• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health insurance covering various treatments for you and a family member.