Head of Data

Remote from: UAE
Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: Software Engineering
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 17 Jun 2025
Apply before: 17 Jul 2025
Experience level: Director
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About Calo Calo provides personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms, built with love by chefs, nutritionists, and software engineers. 💚

Launched in Bahrain in 2019, we have since expanded to 5 countries in the region, delivered millions of meals to our customers, and launched our very own Grab & Go Cafe concepts.

We’re on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We think this is one of the most important problems to tackle in our world today. We have global ambitions – no small thinking here.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Head of Data to lead our growing data team and turn data into a key driver of business impact. You’ll set the vision, build scalable foundations, and work closely with teams across product, growth, engineering, and operations. This is a leadership role with deep product and commercial exposure.

Main Responsibilities

Define and lead Calo’s data strategy across all business lines
Manage a cross-functional team of analysts, scientists, and engineers
Build and scale data processes, infrastructure, and tooling.
Partner with product and business teams to drive growth, efficiency, and better decisions
Establish clear, consistent metrics and support experimentation
Champion a data-driven culture and raise data fluency across the company

What We’re Looking For

Experience leading cross-functional data teams across analytics, data science, and data engineering.
Strong communicator with the ability to influence product, growth, and executive teams
Solid grasp of data fundamentals (SQL, data modeling, metric definitions, even if not hands-on daily)
Strong planning and process mindset; able to scale systems, not just outputs
Commercially aware—understands how data impacts GTM, retention, and unit economics
Familiarity with modern data tools like mixpanel, metabase, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Looker

Bonus If You Have