Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

The role:

We have a truly unique and exciting opportunity for a Head of Data and Analytics to come in and really make a difference. You will be a natural leader with a passion for data and analysis as well as a clear vision for how data can transform company strategy, working closely with the CEO to get it implemented.

You’ll get fully immersed, being actively involved and effective at delivering in a startup environment; hands-on leadership is necessary to grow a team through the startup phase into a mature organisation. You’ll be fundamental to the business, responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and scaling the data function in a mixed environment of cloud/SaaS and self-managed products and systems.

We’re a globally distributed, remote-first business so you’ll need to be able to consider global operations, as well as be able to set up and manage a remote, geographically dispersed team - but we know you’ll be able to do that!

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:

• Ensure the Company’s data is centralised into a single data lake and modelled to support data analysis requirements from all functional groups
• Create a common data framework so that all company data can be analysed in a unified manner
• Create a plan to develop and mature our ability to measure and optimise usage growth, mapped to our user journey and then implement it
• Develop a roadmap for the data and analytics function that clearly defines ownership and responsibility between the central data function and the functional groups
• Work closely with the executive team to deliver and implement the tools, processes and operations required to derive insights from our data
• Working directly with the SRE and DevOps teams to plan, provision and deploy a data stack
• Regularly meet with wider business stakeholders to identify data requirements and data resources
• Working independently or with engineering teams to build ETL pipelines for the data stack
• Work closely with our Research function to identify and analyse data resources that can enhance, educate, or provide insights for the wider company
• Hire and build an effective data team as Tyk matures and grows

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Self-motivated: Independent and senior operator that can deliver results from the start with minimum guidance from the Founder Team
• Articulate: a strong communicator to be able to talk to business stakeholders
• Realistic: extremely hands-on and pragmatic (you don’t necessarily need to be a programming guru, but should be able to write solid SQL queries with several years of experience in doing so)
• Agile: experience working with APIs, bonus points if you’ve worked in or with API Management tools
• Entrepreneurial: has worked in a startup / scale-up environment before
• Technical: can demonstrate knowledge in all elements of a data & analytics setup:
• (Web) analytics
• ETL/ELT
• Databases
• Data Visualisation

Competencies:

• Natural leader: experience in a leadership position managing an analytics team
• Dynamic: experience with a high growth company using on-premise tools and on-demand (SaaS) transactional systems
• Practical: hands on experience with Python, SQL and relational databases
• Self-starter: previously led or work-led on a corporate data platform project
• Masterful: experience with open source data & analytics tools.
• Collaborative: experience working with multiple executive level business stakeholders
• Capable: must have experience with analytic and data visualisation tools

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Company retreats

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up!

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one!

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count!

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent!

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

• Make things better!

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io