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Company Mission
About Wayflyer
Today's consumer brands need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.
Company Mission
Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great brands to reach their growth potential.
About Wayflyer
Today's consumer brands need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.
Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.
Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $4.5bn to thousands of brands worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.
Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.
Culture & Values at Wayflyer
At Wayflyer, we value being sound people, excellent operators, and ambitious overachievers, working together with integrity, creativity, and bold optimism to deliver exceptional results. To learn more, please visit our website.
Your Role at a Glance: The key ways you'll bring value to the team
Wayflyer is rapidly expanding, launching new products, developing new partnerships, and exploring channels to provide funding to more businesses, including those beyond traditional e-commerce. As our Data Analytics Manager, you'll be at the heart of this evolution, shaping the insights that drive our strategic decisions across these new frontiers. We are looking for a technical manager who is not afraid to get hands-on and delve into the details with their team. You will lead and empower a talented team of 6+ Analytics Engineers and Data Analysts, responsible for transforming complex data into actionable intelligence.
This is a critical role where you will:
- Drive Impact: Directly influence key business areas like risk assessment, product development, customer growth, and operational efficiency through data-driven insights, supporting our expansion efforts.
- Build & Scale: Own and evolve our modern data stack (centred on Snowflake and dbt), ensuring our analytics capabilities scale with Wayflyer's rapid growth and diversification.
- Lead & Mentor: Develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the data function.
- Shape Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for analytics, ensuring tight alignment with Wayflyer's core objectives and becoming a trusted advisor to leadership.
- Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Analytics Engineers and Data Analysts, promoting individual development and maximizing team impact. Define roles, responsibilities, and career paths within the team.
- Strategic Roadmap: Develop, own, and execute the strategic roadmap for data analytics and business intelligence, prioritising initiatives that deliver maximum value to Wayflyer.
- Technical Oversight & Data Platform: Oversee the architecture, development, and maintenance of our analytics infrastructure, including our Snowflake Data Warehouse and our dbt-centric transformation layer. Ensure data quality, governance, scalability, and performance.
- Insight Generation & Delivery: Partner closely with stakeholders across Product, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to understand their needs, translate them into analytical requirements, and deliver actionable insights through reports, dashboards, and deep-dive analyses.
- Best Practices & Process Optimisation: Champion and implement best practices in analytics engineering, data modelling, data governance, testing, and documentation to improve data reliability and team efficiency.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication: Act as a key data evangelist across the company. Clearly articulate complex findings, analytical approaches, and strategic recommendations to diverse audiences, including functional leaders (VPs) and C-level executives (CTO, CBO, CFO, etc.).
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Experience: 6+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or analytics engineering, with at least 2+ years of proven experience managing and leading analytical teams.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and motivate high-performing technical teams, with a willingness to engage deeply in technical challenges alongside the team. Experience setting team direction and managing priorities.
- Technical Expertise:
- Deep proficiency in SQL for complex querying and data manipulation.
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining data models and transformation pipelines using dbt.
- Strong understanding of modern data warehousing concepts and practical experience with cloud data warehouses, specifically Snowflake.
- Proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Omni, Looker, Power BI).
- Strategic & Business Acumen: Ability to understand business challenges, translate them into data problems, and develop analytical solutions and strategic recommendations.
- Collaboration: Proven track record of effective cross-functional collaboration, building strong relationships with technical and non-technical partners.
- Communication: Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Experience thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You are comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Bonus Points:
- Experience in FinTech or eCommerce domains.
- Experience with Python for data analysis (Pandas, NumPy).
- Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster).
- Experience setting up data quality monitoring and alerting.
What to Expect After You Apply
You can expect to hear from a member of our Talent Acquisition team soon. If we believe you're a good fit, the first step will be a conversation with a recruiter who will guide you through the next stages of the process. The full interview process, which includes meeting the Hiring Manager and completing a case study or interview loop, typically takes approximately four to six weeks.
️The Perks of Being at Wayflyer
Time Off That Matters
Recharge with 25 days of paid annual leave, plus public holidays.
Your Wellbeing
Access support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our Wellbeing @ Wayflyer ERG.
???? Comprehensive Health & Protection
Stay covered with private healthcare, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
Secure Your Future with Our Pension Plan
Our pension plan helps you build a strong foundation for tomorrow, starting today.
Family-First Policies
We offer generous parental and adoptive leave, including 6 months of paid leave for Primary Caregivers and 3 months of paid leave for Secondary Caregivers.
Share in Our Success
With our equity scheme, you're not just an employee; you're a stakeholder in our journey.
Work From Abroad!
Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days a year.
Global Offices and Working Policy ****
Dublin, Our Buzzing HQ
Our headquarters operates a hybrid model. The number of in-office days depends on your team, but the majority of teams and our SLT are typically in 3-4 days per week, giving you valuable exposure to senior leadership.
London, One Big Family
Home to around 30 employees, our brand-new London office also runs on a hybrid model. You’ll often find our CEO working alongside the team with regular visits.
Sydney, Small but Mighty
Our close-knit Sydney office has around 20 employees and follows a flexible hybrid model, fostering strong collaboration.
Atlanta, New York & Charlotte, Stateside Collaboration
Each of our US offices has 8-10 employees and operates with a flexible hybrid approach, blending in-person connection with remote freedom.
Remote, Across the US & Europe
The majority of our Tech org works remotely across the UK and Europe, coming together throughout the year for off-sites, company kick off and technical kick off. We also have a growing number of remote team members across the US.
How We Handle Your Personal Data
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Wayflyer Limited will process your personal data for the purpose of evaluating your suitability for the role. Such processing is based on the need to take steps prior to entering into a potential employment agreement. To learn more about how we handle your personal data, you can contact our privacy team at or review our privacy notice at https://wayflyer.com/privacy-notice.Seniority level
- Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type
Job function
- Job functionResearch, Analyst, and Information Technology
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