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Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is an intelligent platform for travel and spend management trusted by 12,000+ companies worldwide. The company automates travel bookings, expenses, invoice processing, and related workflows to eliminate shadow work and boost productivity. Founded in 2015, Perk operates globally with 1,800+ employees across 12 offices, headquartered in London and Boston.
As VP of Data, you will lead a 40+ person data organization spanning seven crafts: Data Product Partners, Reporting Analytics, Data Analytics, Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Governance. You will report to the President of Product and Technology and own data strategy across Perk's Travel, Spend, and Events products, with cross-functional impact on Customer Care, Marketing, Finance, Revenue, and People functions.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Strategy and Roadmap: Own the long-term vision for data architecture, analytics, predictive modeling, and AI product integration. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Platform teams to translate machine learning and advanced analytics into customer-loved products.
2. Trust and Governance: Establish data governance, privacy, and compliance standards. Ensure security and regulatory requirements are built in from the start, and partner with AI leadership to guarantee trusted data behind every AI product.
3. Data Platform Leadership: Operate data infrastructure as a flagship product—governed, reliable, and built for scale. Own budget and make build/buy/prioritization decisions.
4. Organizational Leadership: Unify craft, standards, and roadmap across teams. Be the authoritative data voice alongside Product, Engineering, Finance, and other executive functions.
5. Talent Development: Coach senior leaders, shape operating model and org design, attract top talent, and build a culture of ownership and measurable results.
Success means data becomes the foundation of products that anticipate customer needs through personalized experiences and proactive insights. You will build a high-performing, trusted data organization that delivers measurable value across all business functions, enabling data-driven decision-making well beyond reporting.
Perk operates on an in-person-first model with 3 days per week in office. The company values ownership, delivering exceptional experiences, and working as one team. The organization brings together talent from travel, fintech, and SaaS industries, representing 70+ countries.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven scale-up leadership: experience leading data organizations in high-growth tech or SaaS environments
- Leader of leaders: demonstrated ability to scale organizations of 40+ through senior leaders, coach leaders of leaders, and hire top talent
- Technical excellence: data science background combined with analytics and data engineering expertise; depth to innovate across any direction
- Executive leadership: owned data strategy and budget at executive level; made major build/buy/invest decisions; shaped company direction alongside senior leadership
- Modern data stack fluency: proficiency with dbt, Snowflake, conversational analytics, Looker or Tableau; instinct to build custom tooling for competitive advantage
- Data governance and compliance: deep understanding of data privacy, governance, compliance, and GDPR
- Cross-functional partnership: proven trusted relationships with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations; strong communication and influence skills at senior levels
- Strategic and tactical balance: comfortable moving between company-level strategy and hands-on implementation details
