Bristol
Role: Head of Data Salary: Up to £75,000 DOE Reporting into: Chief Operating Officer Contract type: Full-time. We offer flexibility of working hours and location. Location: Bristol (hybrid) We ask all team members to come into the office at least 3 x per quarter. Our Benefits include: Unlimited holiday, EMI share options, enhanced paid parental leave, £50 monthly wellbeing allowance, 8 company paid counselling sessions, private medical options & health care plan, plus more. Who we are We’re Signable, a Bristol-based SaaS company that’s been helping businesses send, sign, and manage documents digitally since 2007. Today, thousands of teams across the UK and beyond trust our eSignature platform, including Aardman, Co-op, Octopus Energy, Krispy Kreme, and Regatta. We’re a values-driven, people-first team, and we’re proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work® for Tech, Women, and Wellbeing in 2025. With a 4.8/5 rating on Glassdoor, genuine flexibility, and a culture built on trust and belonging, we aim to be a place where people can grow and feel supported to do their best work. What we do We’re not just a tech company. We’re a collaborative team who listen, learn, and make things better together. Whether we’re improving product features, experimenting with new capabilities, or evolving how we work, we stay focused on creating meaningful experiences for our customers and our team. We’re building for a future where digital signing is always human, helpful, and within reach. With ambitious plans for growth, we’re looking for people who want to create, collaborate, and make a real impact for our customers and our team. If this sounds like you, now is a great time to get involved. About the role We’re looking for an experienced and hands-on data leader to take ownership of Signable’s data function. You’ll set the medium and long-term vision for how we collect, model, and leverage data while also rolling up your sleeves to engineer pipelines, improve data quality, and deliver insights that drive decision-making across the business As we continue to scale our SaaS product, this is a new and important role for a hands-on data leader to take ownership of Signable's entire data function. The role sits right at the heart of how we use our data. You’ll work hybrid across data engineering, analytics, architecture and strategy, rolling up your sleeves to build the pipelines, models and processes that keep our data reliable and ready to use. This is a foundational role within a small but growing team, ideal for someone who loves both the craft of data and the challenge of shaping a strategic direction. We’re looking for someone who enjoys being hands-on, can shape a scalable data stack from the ground up and cares about doing things the right way. You’ll take the lead on our data strategy while staying close to the tech, helping us scale our SaaS platform and set the short, medium and long-term vision for our data team. If you love mixing big-picture thinking with practical delivery and want to make a real impact on how a growing product uses data we would love to hear from you. The role will suit someone currently in a senior role looking to step up into a Head of Data position and take ownership of our Data strategy, whilst staying close to the technical challenges. About the Team & Tech we're using There are currently 2 people in our data team. We're currently working with technology such as DBT, AWS, RedShift, S3, PostgreSQL, GitLab, Hevo. Your day-to-day responsibilities • Working in the Leadership Team and reporting to the COO. Your strategy and ideas will help craft the direction of the company right from the top, • Owning the company-wide data strategy: Defining how data is collected, structured, governed, and used to drive insights across all teams, • Partner with teams across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, People and Finance to enable trusted, self-serve analytics, • Delivering hands-on data engineering and analysis: Design and build robust data models, transform raw data into insight-ready layers, and support ad-hoc analytical needs, • Providing mentorship to the team, establishing best practices and developing skills, • Champion innovation in data, including exploring, integrating and educating the use of tools like AI, • Own a set of metrics to help measure the success of the data team’s delivery of tools, insights and value to the business Our Ideal Candidate: • You bring a breadth of experience from different environments and challenges, enabling you to apply the right level of pragmatism, structure and leadership in each situation, • You know how to hire, build and scale a strong data team, developing people at all levels as the function grows, • You are capable of working and guiding the team technically in our tech stack drawing from your deep tech experience, and you have the ability to scale and evolve this stack in line with our growth aspirations, • You are a Strategic “big picture thinker” with experience building data strategy for a scaling/startup (and ideally) B2B SAAS environment, • You bring experience of introducing improved analytics, orchestration and observability practices, and you are skilled at guiding the selection of future BI/tools and enable reliable, self-serve insights across a business, • You are an exceptional communicator, not afraid to challenge the status quo, able to influence and align stakeholders at all levels, from the board to engineers with ideas, strategy and, of course, data! And a massive bonus if: • You have experience in the e-signature industry or similar industry, • You have experience implementing customer facing analytics at scale Please note: The qualifications and experiences above act as a loose guide to what we’re looking for. We’d still love to hear from you if you have more or less experience, so long as the core skills can be demonstrated Some of our great benefits include: • Unlimited annual leave - including time off for religious holidays, • £50 per month to spend on either your wellbeing or development, • EMI share options, • Flexible working hours for everyone, • Enhanced paid parental leave, • Free face-to-face counselling for up to 8 sessions, • Life assurance & income protection, • Paid sick leave (mental, physical, menstrual & menopause), • Health support plan for things like eyecare, dentist, medical support, • Option to join our AVIVA Private Medical Insurance scheme, • Mac or PC? Your choice… just let us know, • Take a look at the full list of our benefits ___ Our Office • Multi-purpose office space with open desk areas, quiet working booths and collaboration spaces, • Private rooms available for religious observance, meditation and reflection, • Casual dress - wear whatever you feel comfortable in & represents you, • On-site showers, • Secure lockers, • Dog friendly office Find out how we hire ___ Want to see what we have been up to at Signable? Check out our Instagram here - ___ We perform background checks on all candidates to whom job offers are made. We partner with a third-party provider to do so. We are not looking for external agency support with this role - thank you!