Our focus, although simple, is powerful: reinventing business operations and transforming the areas that often get bogged down by slow, inefficient processes. Our innovative platform allows people to communicate naturally, while we capture the information they need, so they can avoid data entry, streamline their operations, and spend more time on what matters most: their clients.
Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays) Company Overview:We're Zocks, a venture capital-backed AI startup changing the world of financial services, and other industries that value security and privacy. Our founding team built their careers working on real-time communication products, building enterprise platforms, and crafting tools for some of the most security-conscious industries. With experience gained from industry leaders like Twilio, IBM, Microsoft, and Hearsay Systems, we're using AI to bridge human conversations with enterprise systems, starting with financial services.
Our focus, although simple, is powerful: reinventing business operations and transforming the areas that often get bogged down by slow, inefficient processes. Our innovative platform allows people to communicate naturally, while we capture the information they need, so they can avoid data entry, streamline their operations, and spend more time on what matters most: their clients.
Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)
Why we're hiring for this role
Data is becoming a strategic capability at Zocks. We've already built the foundation with a growing team of Data Analysts, and we're now looking for an experienced Head of Data / Data Manager to take the next step: building a high-performing data organization that enables better product decisions, business insights, and scalable data infrastructure.
This isn't a role where you'll inherit a large, mature department. Instead, you'll have the opportunity to shape how Data operates at Zocks—helping define the team structure, hiring key talent, establishing scalable processes, and partnering closely with Engineering and Product to build a data function that grows with the company.
You'll initially lead our small team Data Analysts while helping expand the organization with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, creating a collaborative team that turns data into one of Zocks' biggest competitive advantages. At Zocks, Data is a core product capability—not a standalone reporting function. You'll help ensure that data directly influences product strategy, customer outcomes, and business decisions while supporting the continued evolution of our AI-native platform.
Job Description
As Head of Data at Zocks, you will lead and grow our Data organization while driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our data capabilities.
You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure our analytics, data platform, and insights directly influence product strategy, customer outcomes, and company-wide decision-making. While this role requires a strong understanding of analytics and data engineering concepts, your primary focus will be leadership, building scalable processes, delivery, prioritization, stakeholder management, coaching, and building an exceptional team.
What You'll Own
Why we're hiring for this role
Data is becoming a strategic capability at Zocks. We've already built the foundation with a growing team of Data Analysts, and we're now looking for an experienced Head of Data / Data Manager to take the next step: building a high-performing data organization that enables better product decisions, business insights, and scalable data infrastructure.
This isn't a role where you'll inherit a large, mature department. Instead, you'll have the opportunity to shape how Data operates at Zocks—helping define the team structure, hiring key talent, establishing scalable processes, and partnering closely with Engineering and Product to build a data function that grows with the company.
You'll initially lead our small team Data Analysts while helping expand the organization with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, creating a collaborative team that turns data into one of Zocks' biggest competitive advantages. At Zocks, Data is a core product capability—not a standalone reporting function. You'll help ensure that data directly influences product strategy, customer outcomes, and business decisions while supporting the continued evolution of our AI-native platform.
Job Description
As Head of Data at Zocks, you will lead and grow our Data organization while driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our data capabilities.
You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure our analytics, data platform, and insights directly influence product strategy, customer outcomes, and company-wide decision-making. While this role requires a strong understanding of analytics and data engineering concepts, your primary focus will be leadership, building scalable processes, delivery, prioritization, stakeholder management, coaching, and building an exceptional team.
What You'll Own
Build and grow the Data organization
- Lead, mentor, and coach a growing team of Data Analysts while expanding the organization with Data Scientists and Data Engineers.
- Define team responsibilities, ownership areas, and effective ways of working.
- Recruit exceptional talent and help shape the future structure of the Data organization.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing culture built on ownership, continuous learning, and business impact.
- Support career development through coaching, regular feedback, and clear growth paths.
Drive Data strategy and execution
- Define priorities together with Product and Engineering leadership.
- Help shape how data powers our AI-native product, enabling better customer experiences, smarter product capabilities, and stronger business decisions.
- Balance short-term business needs with long-term investments in data quality, infrastructure, and scalability.
- Drive successful delivery of analytics initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Continuously improve planning, execution, and operational processes within the Data organization.
Partner across the company
- Work closely with Product Managers to identify opportunities where data creates measurable customer value.
- Partner with Engineering to build scalable, reliable data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.
- Collaborate with business teams to deliver actionable insights that support strategic decision-making.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Act as the bridge between business needs, product strategy, and technical implementation.
Champion data quality and governance
- Promote best practices around data governance, documentation, and data quality.
- Drive consistency in metrics definitions, business logic, and data models across the organization.
- Establish scalable standards for data cataloging, documentation, and data dictionaries.
- Ensure the team delivers trusted, high-quality data that enables confident decision-making.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, or related disciplines.
- 2+ years of experience in leading Data teams within a B2B SaaS product company.
- Experience managing or working closely with both Data Analysts and Data Engineers.
- Proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical teams.
- Strong understanding of analytics, data modeling, ETL processes, data warehousing, and modern data architectures.
- Solid understanding of concepts such as data dictionaries, semantic layers, data governance, and scalable analytics foundations.
- Ability to discuss technical topics with engineers while translating business needs into clear priorities.
- Experience working closely with Product Management and Engineering organizations.
- Strong stakeholder management, prioritization, and delivery leadership skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced environments.
- Excellent English communication skills; fluent Hungarian is also required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience scaling a Data organization from a small team into a larger function.
- Experience working with US-based customers, stakeholders, or product organizations.
- Experience with AI-powered or data-intensive products.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Working knowledge of SQL and Python sufficient to understand technical trade-offs and support technical decision-making.
- Experience with modern BI and analytics platforms.
- Experience establishing data governance practices, metric definitions, or data dictionaries.
- Exposure to Data Science or Machine Learning teams.
Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)
We are an equal opportunity employer and never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. At Zocks, we value diversity and believe that it enhances our creativity, innovation, and overall success. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.