Head of Data📣 إعلان

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	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

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About the Role

*******, Saudi Arabia's leading event ticketing and experience booking platform, is seeking a Head of Data to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves owning the company's data function end-to-end, encompassing strategy, team leadership, platform management, and delivery. The primary objective is to transform first-party data into reliable decisions and a monetizable asset within a regulated environment, ensuring data integrity and lawful usage.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and document webook's data strategy and a phased, costed roadmap within 60 days, aligning initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
Define the target operating model for the data function (engineering, analytics, governance) and lead its sequential build-out.
Lead, assess, and strengthen the existing data team, setting performance standards, developing talent, and fostering an engaged, high-performing culture.
Oversee the data platform direction, making pragmatic build/buy and managed/self-host decisions across modern data stack components (warehouse/lakehouse, transformation, orchestration, BI, serving).
Ensure reliable, tested, and observable data pipelines, maintaining accuracy of client-facing dashboards and establishing FinOps discipline for platform budget control.
Establish a single source of truth, a governed metrics layer, and raise the bar on analytical quality for internal decisions and client insights.
Build capabilities for shipping data products, including embedded client analytics and benchmarking, and partner with product/commercial teams to define paid data/insight products.
Ensure data handling compliance with PDPL, GDPR, and NCA requirements, establishing data catalog, quality standards, and a lawful-basis framework for data monetization.
Drive the path from internal analytics to productized data, working with commercial leadership to size, package, and price data/insight products.
Act as a trusted data partner to the executive team, translating technical work into commercial language, and fostering a data-literate culture across the organization.

Required Qualifications

Over 10 years of experience in data, with at least 3-5 years in a senior data leadership role (Head of Data / Director) within a technology, SaaS, or consumer-platform company.
Proven track record in building and leading high-performing data teams across engineering, analytics, and governance.
Deep, hands-on understanding of modern data platforms and the modern data stack (warehouses/lakehouses, transformation (dbt), orchestration, BI, serving), with experience in pragmatic build/buy and managed/self-host decisions.
Experience with both open-source platforms (*, ClickHouse, Superset) and major managed platforms (*, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks).
Strong command of data engineering and analytics practices, including pipelines, dimensional modeling, semantic/metrics layers, data quality, and observability.
Demonstrated ability to translate data into business value, including experience with data products or monetization.
Working knowledge of data governance and privacy in a regulated environment (PDPL / GDPR experience is a strong advantage).
Commercial fluency, capable of translating technical work into business and board-level language.
A track record of delivering against deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience monetizing data or building externally sold data products.
Familiarity with KSA and EU regulatory contexts (PDPL, GDPR, NCA ECC).
Experience in making data "AI-ready" and enabling ML/analytics at scale.
FinOps / cloud cost-management experience.
Relevant qualifications in data, computer science, or a related field; cloud or platform certifications (GCP / AWS / Azure, Snowflake, Databricks).
Experience in events, ticketing, e-commerce, or marketplace businesses.