Job Description

Data & Analytics Director

Build & Lead a High-Impact Data Function | High-Growth Consumer Scale-Up
Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid (2 days in office)
$200k - $220k + Super + ESOP

Join one of Australia’s fastest-growing DTC scale-ups. Strong product-market fit, purpose-driven brand, loyal customers, and serious momentum. This is your chance to own how a business uses data to scale—across growth, marketing, operations, product, and customer.

Lead a modern, high-performing team of 6 across Analytics, Data Science, and Data/Analytics Engineering, turning data into a true competitive advantage.

The Role

• Own the entire data function: strategy, roadmap, and team
• Build, lead, and scale a multidisciplinary team, setting priorities, ways of working, and raising the bar on impact
• Partner with leadership across Growth, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Finance to answer critical business questions:

• • Where to invest for the next growth phase
  • How to optimise marketing, pricing, and customer lifecycle
  • How to improve operational efficiency and margin
  • How to embed data into every decision

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead & scale the data function: Coach and mentor a high performing Data team - attracting exceptional talent, setting expectations & objectives, and managing performance & development
• Own data strategy & roadmap: align initiatives to key business priorities
• Drive impact across the business:

   

• • Growth & Marketing: performance, attribution, budget optimisation
  • Operations: efficiency, automation, cost optimisation
  • Product & Customer: lifecycle, retention, engagement
  • Finance: reporting, forecasting, commercial insights

• Build a data-led culture: improve accessibility, literacy, and self-serve capabilities
• Stay hands-on where it matters: SQL, data models, problem-solving, and scalable data foundations

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Data & Analytics leader (min 5+ years) of multidisciplinary data teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end data lifecycle (ingestion → insight → impact)
• Track record of using data to drive commercial outcomes - particularly across Customer, Growth, Marketing, Ops, Finance Metrics
• Experience in consumer, subscription, DTC, eCommerce, or product-led businesses
• Operates at strategy and execution levels, with strong stakeholder influence
• Comfortable in ambiguity—brings structure, clarity, and direction
• Hands-on problem-solving with the team: SQL, data modeling, and modern data stacks (dbt, Snowflake, Looker, Omni etc.)

Interested? Apply now or message Ailbhe McDonagh Kelly on Linkedin if you’re keen to know more or email ailbhe@theonset.com.au