Head of Data (f/m/d)

The Finanzen.net Group is an innovative FinTech company that supports private and professional investors in their investment decisions.

The group includes: 

• finanzen.net - one of the leading financial information portals in the DACH region
• finanzen.net ZERO - a neobroker for low-cost securities trading
• TraderFox - a provider of financial information and trading tools for semi-professional investors and those who want to become one

Our vision is - We strive to be the best partner for our customers on their investment journey

At the beginning of 2025, the Finanzen Group was acquired by Inflexion, a leading European private equity firm in the mid-cap segment. Inflexion supports ambitious management teams in developing and sustainably scaling high-growth companies.

As part of the acquisition, the previously independently managed business units will be strategically merged. This realignment and the Group's strong innovative power will create new growth opportunities to further expand its market position as a leading investment platform.

In order to successfully implement the growth strategy and the value enhancement program, we are looking for committed talents who want to play an active role in shaping this change.

To support our growth, we are looking for an experienced Head of Data (f/m/d) to expand and lead our data organization. Reporting to the CFO, you will drive value creation through data insights, web analytics, AI-powered personalization and customer-facing data products. You will manage a team of data professionals and collaborate with stakeholders across the company, particularly the CFO and CTO, to deliver impactful results.

Your responsibilities: 

• The ideal candidate has been a Head of Data for 3+ years with 7+ years of work experience, looking to increase their responsibility and drive a company-critical data function.

• Build and lead a data team (data engineers, analytics engineers, analysts).

• Build a data lake and web tracking capabilities, enabling a data-lake-first 360° Customer Data Platform (CDP).

• Optimize customer journeys and enable AI-driven personalization.

• Define and track KPIs to track value creation, support financial planning, sales and operations

• Support customer service automation through the CDP.

• Create data analytics products for customers and partners.

• Establish data governance policies and ensure stakeholder alignment.

• Actively drive value creation through data-driven solutions.

• Experience with data sets spanning billions of rows, dbt, ETL tools (e.g., Fivetran), and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Looker), ideally also orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect.
• Knowledge of web tracking tools (e.g., Snowplow) and cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
• Expertise in SQL, Python and ideally also Spark.
• A/B testing, personalization and experience with large language models is a plus.
• Hands-on problem solver.
• Strong commercial drive
• Proven leadership in managing data teams and aligning stakeholders.

What we offer: 

• FinTech meets private equity: actively shape one of the most exciting growth phases of a leading FinTech. 
• Strategic responsibility: You will work directly with the management and private equity investors. 
• Dynamic environment & high learning curve: You will be part of an ambitious team that drives innovation and scaling. 
• Flexible working: Hybrid working models and a modern corporate culture