Skyscanner
Technology
DirectorofProduct-DataPlatformandDecisionTooling
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“Director of Product - Data Platform and Decision Tooling at Skyscanner. Skills: Platform leadership, Product judgement, Commercial impact, Data platform, ML. Owning a trusted data platform, making experimentation fly, powering production-ready ML, enabling AI-assisted self-serve analytics, building for agentic data engineering, scaling data delivery, making quality visible, shaping the operating model, and turning platform work into impact.”
What You'll Achieve.
Connect technical investment to outcomes like experimentation velocity, personalization, revenue impact, cost control, and better product decisions.
Industry & Context.
system design; debugging; algorithms
Must be able to work in Barcelona, Edinburgh or London. Commitment to building an inclusive workplace and accessible products. Reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews are available.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Platform leader at scale, product-minded and commercially sharp, confident with data-powered products, quality and ownership obsessed, cross-functional by nature, direct and pacey, strategic but sleeves-rolled-up.
What You'll Do.
Owning a trusted data platform
making experimentation fly
powering production-ready ML
enabling AI-assisted self-serve analytics
building for agentic data engineering
scaling data delivery
making quality visible
shaping the operating model
and turning platform work into impact.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Build alignment across product, engineering, AI, analytics, data science, and business teams, while keeping boundaries clear and useful.
Communication Scope
Direct
Full Job Description
About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍. Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here) About the role (Hybrid) Data has been at the heart of Skyscanner’s decision-making for over 20 years, and now our platform capability is stepping into an even bigger spotlight. You’ll own the foundations that help us turn data into trusted decisions, personalised product experiences, and measurable business impact at scale. You’ll keep today’s platform dependable while building what comes next: faster experimentation, production-ready ML and decisioning, stronger data quality, clearer ownership, and scalable delivery that does not need a small army to keep it moving. Think platform leadership, product judgement, commercial impact, and just enough travel chaos to keep things interesting. Inspired by the structure and tone of the example JDs. You can be based in Barcelona, Edinburgh or London where we adopt a hybrid working policy of working in the office twice a week. What you’ll be doing - Owning a trusted data platform: You’ll lead the reliability, usability, governance, and economic performance of the platform the whole data organisation depends on. - Making experimentation fly: You’ll ensure product teams can test, learn, and make decisions quickly, with clean assignment, accurate exposure capture, and confidence in the numbers. - Powering production-ready ML: You’ll help data and ML signals move from promising ideas to dependable traveller-facing experiences, with
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