Director of Product - Data Platform and Decision Tooling

Skyscanner

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 data platform 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.  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, without bespoke rework every time.  * Enabling AI-assisted self-serve analytics: You’ll help create the foundations for teams to ask better questions, find trusted answers faster, and consume analytics through AI-native experiences grounded in governed metrics, clear definitions, and reusable knowledge.  * Building for agentic data engineering: You’ll shape how AI and automation can support data engineering workflows, from discovery and documentation to pipeline development, testing, monitoring, incident response, and faster delivery of trusted data products.  * Scaling data delivery: You’ll strengthen how data is moved, transformed, maintained, and served, so Skyscanner can support more use cases without scaling complexity at the same speed.  * Making quality visible: You’ll turn data quality into a managed organisational capability, with clear ownership, measurable health, and faster issue detection and resolution.  * Shaping the operating model: You’ll define the interfaces between data platform, AI platform, product engineering, analytics, data science, and business teams.  * Turning platform work into impact: You’ll connect technical investment to outcomes like experimentation velocity, personalisation, revenue impact, cost control, and better product decisions.  About you  * Product platform leader at scale: You’ve led business-critical platforms that many teams rely on, and you know how to make shared infrastructure trusted, adopted, and economically sustainable.  * Product-minded and commercially sharp: You connect platform choices to company priorities, from revenue impact and product learning to operational risk and ROI.  * Confident with data-powered products: You’ve enabled experimentation, ML, decisioning, or similar capabilities where data moves into real product experiences.  * Quality and ownership obsessed: You know how to make standards, measurement, accountability, and support models stick without wrapping everyone in red tape.  * Cross-functional by nature: You build alignment across product, engineering, AI, analytics, data science, and business teams, while keeping boundaries clear and useful.  * Direct and pacey: You move with the speed the business needs, make decisions with incomplete information, and are honest when something is not working.  * Strategic but sleeves-rolled-up: You can zoom out to shape the future state, then zoom in to unblock teams, sharpen priorities, and get the platform humming.  What it's like here  We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.  Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.  Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.  We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

Skyscanner

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 data platform 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.  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, without bespoke rework every time.  * Enabling AI-assisted self-serve analytics: You’ll help create the foundations for teams to ask better questions, find trusted answers faster, and consume analytics through AI-native experiences grounded in governed metrics, clear definitions, and reusable knowledge.  * Building for agentic data engineering: You’ll shape how AI and automation can support data engineering workflows, from discovery and documentation to pipeline development, testing, monitoring, incident response, and faster delivery of trusted data products.  * Scaling data delivery: You’ll strengthen how data is moved, transformed, maintained, and served, so Skyscanner can support more use cases without scaling complexity at the same speed.  * Making quality visible: You’ll turn data quality into a managed organisational capability, with clear ownership, measurable health, and faster issue detection and resolution.  * Shaping the operating model: You’ll define the interfaces between data platform, AI platform, product engineering, analytics, data science, and business teams.  * Turning platform work into impact: You’ll connect technical investment to outcomes like experimentation velocity, personalisation, revenue impact, cost control, and better product decisions.  About you  * Product platform leader at scale: You’ve led business-critical platforms that many teams rely on, and you know how to make shared infrastructure trusted, adopted, and economically sustainable.  * Product-minded and commercially sharp: You connect platform choices to company priorities, from revenue impact and product learning to operational risk and ROI.  * Confident with data-powered products: You’ve enabled experimentation, ML, decisioning, or similar capabilities where data moves into real product experiences.  * Quality and ownership obsessed: You know how to make standards, measurement, accountability, and support models stick without wrapping everyone in red tape.  * Cross-functional by nature: You build alignment across product, engineering, AI, analytics, data science, and business teams, while keeping boundaries clear and useful.  * Direct and pacey: You move with the speed the business needs, make decisions with incomplete information, and are honest when something is not working.  * Strategic but sleeves-rolled-up: You can zoom out to shape the future state, then zoom in to unblock teams, sharpen priorities, and get the platform humming.  What it's like here  We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.  Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.  Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.  We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

Robinhood

JOIN US IN BUILDING THE FUTURE OF FINANCE. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.  The team’s mission is to safeguard the financial stability of our trading operations. By independently challenging front-line strategies and validating complex margin models, we ensure the safe and sustainable growth of our derivatives product. As a Derivatives Risk Oversight Lead, you will serve as a key representative of Second Line of Defense for our derivatives trading platform, leading the oversight and continuous enhancement of risk management frameworks across the derivatives product and the Bitstamp Financial Services (BFS) entity. This role is based in our UK office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Bitstamp by Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Support the Director of Risk in implementing and managing the financial risk management programs for the Bitstamp Financial Services (BFS) Entity and other parts of the Bitstamp group, with particular focus on market, product, counterparty, margin, collateral, and liquidity risks arising from spot and derivatives activities. * Provide independent monitoring of risk exposures across financial and operational risks and escalate breaches of approved limits, with a primary emphasis on trading-related risks and scalable control design as the business grows. * Review and validate risk models and assess exposure metrics across derivatives products and trading strategies, including independent challenge of product calculations, valuation logic, exposure metrics, and model assumptions. * Define and periodically review margin methodologies. Independently assess the adequacy of margin and collateral practices implemented by 1LOD, including initial margin, maintenance margin, liquidation thresholds, collateral haircuts, concentration add-ons, and stressed close-out assumptions. * Define counterparty risk framework and limits; independently monitor exposures and challenge limit utilization, concentration risk, and interconnected exposures across spot and derivatives books. * Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis to assess the impact of adverse market conditions and extreme events on the derivatives portfolio and develop contingency plans accordingly, including the design of independent house stress scenarios and the ability to reproduce and challenge 1LOD stress calculations. * Complete quarterly regulatory submissions required under the MiFID license, such as capital requirement calculation (ICAAP) and quantitative reporting, including prudential risk indicators. * Build or enhance internal capital and liquidity models, taking into account new risks arising from derivatives trading within the BFS entity,, including risks related to perpetual swaps, leverage, funding mechanics, basis dislocations, liquidation events, market gaps, and stressed liquidity. * Participate in development of key risk and early warning indicators and monitoring as well as reviews of risk appetites, including collaboration with 1LOD on defining KPI/KRI thresholds and escalation triggers (e.g., green/orange/red status). * Establish a regular and repeatable risk assessment process covering daily monitoring, weekly and monthly deep dives, periodic model and margin review, exception tracking, and formal escalation governance. * Collaborate with process owners to facilitate appropriate management and control of all material risks for the BFS entity, while acting as a subject-matter expert on derivatives and trading risk. * Promote a risk-aware culture, including facilitating regulatory-required risk training, and support clear ownership between 1LOD and 2LOD in risk identification, challenge, escalation, and remediation. * Report findings to management and regulatory authorities, highlighting key risk metrics, exposures, and mitigating actions, with clear articulation of breaches, trends, emerging risks, and required management actions. * Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams to ensure that risk management considerations are integrated into business processes and decision-making, including new product approval, control design, risk tooling, and scalable operating processes. * Independently connduct spot and derivatives risk assessments, including hedge effectiveness, basis risk, collateral sufficiency, concentration risk, and the impact of extreme market moves across linked positions. * Support the scaling of the business by ensuring that risk methodologies, controls, reporting, and governance remain robust as volumes, client complexity, and product range increase. WHAT YOU BRING * 5+ years of experience in financial risk management, ideally in a second line of defense capacity. Experience in a derivatives trading firm or brokerage is strongly preferred, and direct derivatives/market risk experience is essential. * Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify actionable insights, and to independently test, recalculate, and challenge front-line risk metrics and product outputs. * Good understanding of the MiFID regulatory framework (particularly derivatives) and prudential expectations relevant to investment firms offering derivatives products. * Good knowledge of the components of a balance sheet and drivers of income, including the capital, liquidity, and P&L implications of leveraged derivatives activity. * Ability to operate independently and navigate ambiguity. * Effective communication and presentation skills, including the ability to challenge senior stakeholders with credible quantitative analysis and clear risk recommendations. * Knowledge of the blockchain and virtual currency environment is preferred, with a strong understanding of crypto market structure, spot trading, derivatives products, and perpetual swaps. * Excellent English language skills (written and verbal). WHAT WE OFFER * Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career. * Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership. * Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs. * Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more. * Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more! * Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.  * Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards, which vary by region and entity. If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application. Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws. Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best. Please review the Privacy Policy for your country of application.