Head of Data (Remote from Spain)

• Define the vision and roadmap for the data function, prioritizing initiatives for maximum business impact.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing Data team while coordinating with external agencies until internal resources are established.
• Partner with product, engineering, marketing, operations, and leadership to translate business goals into measurable outcomes.
• Lead applied AI/LLM initiatives, including semantic search, assistants, automation, and content generation tools.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning models for personalization, engagement prediction, churn, LTV forecasting, and fraud detection.
• Establish and enforce MLOps and data engineering best practices, ensuring model monitoring, retraining, and pipeline reliability.
• Implement scalable data infrastructure for experimentation, inference, and production workloads, including LLM pipelines and evaluation systems.
• Communicate complex modeling trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements:6+ years in Data Science or ML Engineering, with at least 2 years in senior leadership or ownership roles.Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost).Proven experience deploying and operating ML models in production environments.Expertise in one or more areas: recommendations/personalization, time-series forecasting, or fraud/risk modeling.Familiarity with modern data stacks and pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake) and MLOps practices.Strong experimentation mindset and ability to link modeling work to measurable business impact.Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and leadership capabilities.Benefits:Opportunity to define and lead the data science and AI function with direct impact on products and business outcomes.Close collaboration with senior leadership and cross-functional product and engineering teams.Fully remote role with a structured time-off policy including vacation, personal days