Head of Data and Analytics / Руководитель направления Данных и Аналитики
At Novakid, we’re building one of the world’s most engaging online English-learning platforms for kids. Today, we serve 100,000+ students and work with 4,000 + teachers across 15+ countries.
We’ve already proven the demand. Now we’re scaling the platform, expanding AI-driven learning experiences, and rethinking how our backend should evolve for the next stage of growth.
This is where you come in.
About the Role
Novakid is hiring a Head of Data & Analytics to lead the next stage of our analytics evolution — transforming a strong existing foundation into a modern, AI-enabled decision system that scales with the business.
This is a strategic leadership role with broad scope: you'll own the analytics organization, the technology transformation, data science, and the data culture across the company. You won't be starting from scratch — you'll be accelerating a transformation already underway.
What You'll Lead
- Analytics Strategy & Operating Model: Define how data and analytics supports growth, product development, commercial performance, and operations. Shape what is self-serve, AI-assisted, automated, and expert-led.
- Analytics Team Leadership: Lead a team of analysts embedded across product squads and business functions. Raise the bar on speed, strategic impact, and self-service enablement while keeping analysts focused on the highest-value work.
- AI-Powered Analytics: Scale practical AI use cases: natural-language data access, AI-assisted insight generation, anomaly detection, automated reporting, and productivity tooling for analysts and stakeholders.
- Experimentation & A/B Testing: Strengthen Novakid's experimentation culture — making it faster and easier to design, launch, measure, and learn from experiments without heavy analyst involvement at every step.
- Data Science: Build a structured, high-impact data science capability spanning ML for business use cases, forecasting, experimentation support, AI-powered product features, and research for new learning experiences.
- Metric Governance & Data Foundation: Drive clearer KPI ownership, stronger documentation, and a trusted semantic layer across Product, Growth, Sales, Marketing, and Finance — reducing ambiguity and conflicting interpretations.
What Success Looks Like
- Faster turnaround on common business questions and broader stakeholder self-service
- A modern AI-enabled analytics capability adopted across the company
- A stronger experimentation practice with less dependency on analyst bandwidth
- Clear KPI ownership and trusted, well-documented data
- A well-structured data science function supporting both business and product innovation
- Strong executive confidence in data-driven decision-making
What We're Looking For
- Significant leadership experience in analytics, BI, or data functions within high-growth digital businesses
- Proven track record transforming analytics toward scalable, self-serve, AI-enabled models
- Strong technical grounding in modern data stacks, cloud warehouses (we use BigQuery), BI tooling, and semantic modeling
- Hands-on SQL fluency and solid understanding of analytics engineering principles
- Experience leading or reshaping embedded analyst teams
- Practical, hands-on experience applying AI in analytics at scale
- Experience building or rebuilding a data science function spanning business support and product features
What we offer…
- Fully remote work
- A chance to shape the future of AI-driven education.
- A fun, dynamic team that loves building innovative products.
- Unlimited holidays – because we trust you to deliver.
- Bonuses and stock options – we grow together.
Head of Data and Analytics
About the Role
Novakid is looking for a Head of Data & Analytics to lead the next stage of our analytics evolution — transforming a strong existing foundation into a modern, AI-enabled decision system that scales with the business.
This is a strategic leadership role with broad scope: you'll be fully responsible for the analytics organization, technological transformation, data science, and data culture across the entire company.
What You Will Lead
- Analytics Strategy and Operating Model: Defining how data and analytics support growth, product development, commercial performance, and operational activities.
- Analytics Team Leadership: Managing a team of analysts integrated (embedded) into product cross-functional teams (squads) and business units.
- AI-Powered Analytics: Scaling practical AI use cases: natural language data access, AI-assisted insight generation.
- Experiments and A/B Testing: Developing the culture of experiments at Novakid.
- Data Science: Building a structured and highly effective data science function covering machine learning (ML).
- Metric Governance and Data Foundation: Ensuring clear KPI ownership, quality documentation, and creating a reliable semantic layer.
What We Are Looking For in a Candidate
- Significant leadership experience in analytics, BI, or data management.
- Strong technical foundation in modern data stacks, cloud warehouses (we use BigQuery), BI tools.
- Confident practical proficiency in advanced SQL.
- Practical experience of large-scale AI application in analytics.
What We Offer:
- Fully remote work
- The opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven education.
- Unlimited holidays.
- Bonuses and stock options.