At Deputy we’re on a mission to change the way the world of hourly work “works”. Businesses that use Deputy unlock thriving workplaces – one where staff are engaged and empowered, customers are served well, businesses are legally compliant, and companies profits thrive. For decades, software has primarily driven innovation in knowledge work businesses (Slack, Zoom, Asana, Notion), rather than hourly work businesses (think cafes, retail, manufacturing, medical clinics) – we are here to change that!

Deputy is a global cloud SaaS workforce management software company, HQ'd in Sydney (AU), San Francisco, and London (UK). We’ve helped 10s of millions of people across all industries in 70 countries save time and money managing their hourly workforce so they can focus on what they do best, run thriving businesses.

We have crossed $100m ARR, with strong financial stability and backed by leading US/Global investors. Our Target Market is about 60% of the world’s workforce, an ambitious vision, matched with an incredible values-led culture. Come join us!

This role is the central point of leadership for the Data and Analytics team. The key mission of this role is to partner with other leaders to improve company performance, solve complex analytical problems and champion data-driven decision making across the organisation.

As the leader of the Data practice at Deputy, you will define the data & analytics strategy and technical work to provide descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics across the business. You will also ensure data security, privacy, integrity, quality, regulatory compliance, and governance program for the organisation. 

You will lead a team of data analysts and engineers who will uplift the Data capability and increase data-driven decision making across the business and you’ll own the design, development, and maintenance of scalable solutions for ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. 

Responsibilities

• Data Champion: Champion the importance of a data culture (including the importance of data based decision making) and ensure it permeates throughout the organisation. Serve as a thought leader for the entire organisation on data & business intelligence
• Set Data Analytics and AI Strategy: Set the vision and roadmap for the data practice at Deputy to support our growth objectives. Partner closely with the executive leadership to understand their business challenges and develop appropriate analytics, reporting and AI solutions to address them
• Drive Innovation: by defining how the business creates additional value through data and analytics, including how Data Science, Machine Learning and AI can be used across all departments
• Lead the Data practice: Lead, coach, mentor, hire and manage a team of data engineers, scientists and analysts fostering close collaborating with the business. 
• Data Integrity: Ensure data security, privacy, integrity, quality, regulatory compliance and governance.Data Gathering, Data Warehousing, and Data reporting to ensure correct data is being collected with proper attributes and reported on
• Scalable Data Architecture and Models : Build scalable models for internal teams to be able understand their customers better and allocate resources. Continuously improving the business’s data analysis model, creating industry-leading performance through the leveraging of new and creative data-sources, and employing the latest in machine learning in the department.
• Deliver insights: Develop and implement advanced analytic approaches including multivariate analysis, A/B testing and journey tracking. Improve our approach to reporting & analytics through a robust continuous improvement process focused on evaluating and improving the efficacy of existing metrics as well as benchmarking best in class external standards
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with other managers across engineering, product, customer experience, marketing and finance you will lead a cross-functional team to solve complex problems such that data needs are being met.
• Building Data Products: Collaborating with the product team to productionise data science models and predictive ML analysis within the Deputy Product

• A Listener and a Learner:Listen to Learn is a core value of Deputy. You actively engage with stakeholders to understand their needs.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution capabilities: Create an execution plan with tangible processes and frameworks to drive rigour and structure, and help teams adopt and repeat with high standards.
• Collaborator: Ability to engage with and facilitate strong collaboration with all key stakeholders in the business, including influencing individuals at the C-Suite or Executive level and driving strategic business decisions.
• Challenger Spirit Not afraid to challenge the status quo and have courage in their conviction
• Consultative: You excel at translating basic business problem statements into analysis requirements and working with internal customers to define best output based on expressed stakeholder needs
• Story Teller: Capacity to explain concepts in simple terms to broad audiences and use storytelling as a vehicle to make analytics & insight deliverables accessible and memorable.
• Team Leader: Demonstrated track record of growing and retaining high performing teams and culture in a fast-paced, dynamic and rapidly changing startup environment.
• Problem Solver:experience providing business insights and recommendations from data sets. Comfort operating in environments of high ambiguity.
• Prioritisation Skills: Ability to own the evaluation, prioritisation, and planning of data projects, and to manage multiple concurrent projects and drive initiatives in a cross-functional environment
• Strong technical background: Contribute to thought leadership, and demonstrate technical expertise in modern AI, analytics, Data Warehouse technologies, cloud platforms

• Understanding of structured and unstructured data
• Understanding of Analytics tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Segment, Looker or Thoughtspot
• Exposure to database platforms such as MySQL, DynamoDB
• Exposure to cloud based data technologies such as AWS workloads, Snowflake
• Exposure to data programming languages like R, Python, sql

Employee Perks

- Share Options

- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies

- Flexible Work Policy

- Company wide Development & Coaching

- Hackathons

- Awards - "Your Time to Shine & Celebrate Success"

- Social Events & variety of social clubs (Books, LGBT, Games, Sports)

- Mental Health Support

- Munch & Learns

Learn More About Deputy

Deputy Linkedin Page

Deputy Instagram

The Bay Area's Top Workplaces

Open the Pod Bay Doors Podcast - E165: Silvija Martincevic, CEO & Board Director, Deputy 

International Shift Worker Sunday

Customer Story - Honest Burgers: from inflexible all-in-one to Deputy’s best of breed flexibility

Best Employee Scheduling Software 2023 (Forbes Advisor)

Silvija Martincevic: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO

Customer Reviews - GetApp and G2Crowd

Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspective and skills. 

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