Head of Data & Insights

DN Media Group is a global media group seeking to grow and strengthen our position as leading media group in our prioritized areas: business news, seafood, shipping, and energy.

We have a global presence with publications in English and Norwegian as well as offices around the world (Oslo, London, Stamford/New York, and Singapore being the biggest hubs). Significant investments are allocated to our technology platforms, and we develop continuously existing and new solutions to meet our target group’s needs. Our publications are highly rewarded for their journalism and our innovative solutions.

Introduction to the role:

As the Head of Data & Insights at DN Media Group, you will play a central role in defining and executing the organisation's data strategy and roadmap while fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making. The team consists of competencies and expertise areas such as data engineering, data science, data analysis, business intelligence, and digital analysis with teams based in both Oslo and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The impact of your role extends across the entire organization, as team members are integrated into various product teams.

Data platform:

The Data and Insight team operates a modern cloud data platform that powers reporting, analytics, and data science across the business.

Our tech stack:

• Cloud & infrastructure: Google Cloud, BigQuery, Terraform
• Data pipelines & modelling: Apache Airflow, dbt
• Reporting & analytics: Google Data Studio, Apache Superset
• AI & data science: a modern environment for machine learning and generative AI

Your strategic role:

• Lead and oversee data usage across DN Media Group. Championing a data-driven culture.
• Build on and further develop our existing data strategy, unlocking its full potential in partnership with stakeholders across the business.
• Lead efforts to ensure the organisation has a robust data platform by continuously improving tools and processes, and by maintaining high standards of data quality.
• Enable experimentation and establish measurement frameworks that support A/B testing, continuous learning, and data-informed decision-making.
• Drive data capabilities that support personalisation, AI initiatives, and audience growth across the organisation.

Your day-to-day:

• You will be serving as the people manager for the team, including coaching and supporting on a day-to-day basis, fostering a quality culture and supporting their personal development.
• Ensuring a good workflow and communication both within the team, department, and towards the organisation.
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across Product & Technology, our publishing organizations and commercial departments to enable data-driven development.
• You will ensure competency and capacity according to business needs and strategic direction within the team.
• This position reports directly to the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) and is part of the Product and Technology leadership team.

Your background:

• You have a minimum of five years of hands-on experience, coupled with a proven track record of leading data or development teams.
• Hold higher education, preferably in technology, mathematics, statistics, or related fields.
• Can demonstrate strong analytical, strategic, and proactive thinking, together with a passion for all aspects of data.
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, a team player, with the ability to understand and respond to the needs of colleagues across the organisation.
• Are fluent in both English and a Scandinavian language.

We will consider applications even if you do not meet every single one of the above requirements, so do not be put off if you don’t match them perfectly!

We are an equal opportunities employer who wants to attract qualified applicants regardless to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity!

We pride ourselves on high standards of independent journalism and have an ambitious growth strategy. But don't take our word for it, take a look around our career pages and website to find out more about DN Media Group, its publications, and the team.

And for what is on offer for you as a new colleague take a look at the People & Culture department at career pages.

Please note that as part of our recruitment process we conduct ID-checks and right to work checks, and when necessary, a full background check. Candidates will be informed by People before any background checks are initiated.