Data Director
AiraloPosted 3/25/2025
Data Director
Airalo
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Job Summary
Airalo is seeking a Data Director to join their team and support rapid growth as they expand into multiple global markets. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing rapid growth structures from scratch, possess a strong passion for Tech, Travel & Telecommunications, and be able to define the company's data strategy, foster a data-driven culture, and oversee a team of data analysts, scientists, and engineers. As a remote-first company, Airalo offers flexible work arrangements, health insurance, and other benefits. The Data Director will be responsible for ensuring data is at the heart of everything they do, creating and implementing strategies, and collaborating with various business functions.
Job Description
About Airalo
Alo! Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store that helps people connect in over 200+ countries and regions across the globe. We are building the next digital service that revolutionizes the telecom industry. We are a travel-tech company and an equal-opportunity environment that values and executes diversity, inclusion, and equity. Our team is spread across 50+ countries and six continents. What glues us together is our commitment to changing the way you connect.
About you
We hope that you care deeply about the quality of your work, the intrinsic worth of tasks, and the success of your team. You are self-disciplined and do not require micromanagement in terms of your skillset and work ethic. You do your best to flourish as an individual every day while working hard to foster a collaborative team environment. You believe in the importance of being — and staying — authentic, honest, positive, and kind. You are a good interlocutor with clear and concise communication. You are able to manage multiple projects, have an analytical mind, pay keen attention to detail, and love to get your hands dirty. You are cognizant, tolerant, and welcoming of vulnerabilities and cultural differences.
About the Role
Position: Full-time / Employee
Location: Remote-first
Benefits: Health Insurance, work-from-anywhere stipend, annual wellness & learning credits, annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits
Airalo is looking for a talented Data Director to join our team and support our rapid growth as we expand into multiple additional global markets, while building our B2B & B2B2C offerings. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be one of the first Data leaders to join Airalo, hence defining our vision & team structure moving forward. The ideal candidate should have similar experiences implementing rapid growth structures from scratch & possess a strong passion for Tech, Travel & Telecommunications.
As a Data Director you will be responsible for ensuring that we have data at the heart of everything we do. You will create, build, maintain and implement the team’s strategy, vision, roadmap initiatives and projects. You will oversee a team of data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers. You will be collaborating with various business functions such as Growth, Product, Finance, and Networks.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the company’s data strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Foster a data-driven culture, advocating for the effective use of data across the organization
- Collaborate with senior leadership to drive strategic initiatives and support decision-making with data-driven insights
- Continuously assess and improve data architecture and analytics capabilities
- Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of data pipelines, integrations, and storage solutions
- Define, automate, launch and maintain dashboards for key departmental metrics, ensuring data is updated at least daily
- Build a robust, streamlined digital analytics ecosystem to simplify maintenance, improve efficiency, and accelerate time to insights
- Enhance data governance and management processes to ensure data reliability, accessibility, and compliance
- Define and build an A/B testing strategy and platform to set up structured A/B testing plan and run structured tests / randomized control trials
- Utilize data to develop tools for monthly, annual and long term forecasting and planning
- Launch a data literacy program to empower employees with foundational data skills and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making
Requirements:
- 10+ years in product analytics with leadership experience managing teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business needs into actionable data solutions
- Expertise in A/B testing, experimental design, and product performance monitoring
- Strong technical knowledge of data integrations, ETL, data warehouse & data modeling
- Understanding of data governance best practices and experience in developing structured reporting and documentation
- Proficiency in SQL and Python
Good-to-have:
- Experience working with internet and technology companies
- Experience working with Telco, MNOs & MNVOs
If you are interested in this position, please apply via the link.
Please note that our Data team works in the CET timezone, so candidates will need to reside in countries with the same time zone or similar to it and will need to already have permit to work in the country where they are based.
We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this opportunity. Airalo is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity, equity & inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations upon request for individuals with disabilities throughout our job interview process.
