Senior Manager, Business Data & Analytics

The Core Analytics Team (CAT) is tasked with organising and modeling GDM’s data to guide operations and strategy (covering areas like research, compute, people, and product analytics). CAT is part of our broader Technical Operations and Analytics (TOA) team. Technical Operations and Analytics’s mission is to accelerate GDM’s mission by building the systems, processes, and technology to support data-led decisions and deliver AI to the organization.

We are responsible for delivering AI across GDM’s infrastructure to power operations at scale, ensuring we function as a fully 'AI First' organisation. As we transition to an AI-first organization, we are seeking a visionary data leader to champion this high-impact team. You will evolve CAT, expanding its remit beyond traditional analytics & data science to create the data ecosystem for an AI age.

Your mission is twofold:

• Strategic Partner: Continue to lead the team as the indispensable source of truth for GDM’s leadership, using data to guide critical organisational decisions.
• AI Data Architect: Lead the strategic evolution of the team's output, transitioning from traditional 'human-centric' analytics to a hybrid model that integrates “machine-centric” knowledge.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Strategic Steering: Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of data scientists and analysts. Foster a culture of psychological safety, high agency, and continuous improvement. Serve as a trusted advisor to GDM senior leadership. Proactively identify critical business questions and shape the team’s direction to meet those needs.
• Data Strategy: Own and deliver an “organisational knowledge graph” charter – positioning it as an integrated data platform that acts as the central, trusted source of truth for agentic systems to access internal enterprise knowledge. Define and execute a technical roadmap to balance the needs of human-led data science work, machine accessibility, and access for a wide user base across GDM.
• Technical Execution & Delivery: Own the team’s overall portfolio of work – balancing opportunities for short-term impact and longer-term investment in new capabilities. Partner with the wider Technical Operations & Analytics (TO&A) group leadership to integrate data across relevant product surfaces and deliver key cross-functional initiatives.
• Community Evangelism: Lead and revitalise the GDM "Analytics Guild", fostering a wider community for data scientists and analysts across GDM and Google to share best practices, new tools, and critical learnings.

About You:

• Experience: Extensive technical background (e.g. Data Engineering, Analytics, or Data Science), including significant experience leading high-performing teams through technical transformations.
• Strategic Acumen: Proven track record of using data to influence executive-level strategy.
• Technical Vision: You understand the modern data & AI stack.
• The "Translator": You excel at bridging the gap, using your communication skills to align stakeholders from varied backgrounds around a common technical and product vision.
• Governance & Empathy: Experience establishing governance in complex environments.
• AI Fluency: Ability and curiosity to use AI tools practically and effectively in your work.

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