Head of Data Consultancy

We are seeking a visionary Head of Consultancy to lead our data engineering consultancy division. This is a critical role that will drive the growth and success of our consultancy services, leveraging our proprietary 5X platform to deliver exceptional value to our clients. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader with a strong background in data consultancy, capable of owning the P&L, building client relationships, and fostering a high-performing team. As the Head of Consultancy, you will have the opportunity to drive significant revenue growth, enhance client satisfaction, and develop a world-class team of data engineers.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of the consultancy team's Profit & Loss (P&L), ensuring financial targets are met through effective utilization and resource management.
• Develop and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with clients, understanding their needs and ensuring their satisfaction with our services.
• Collaborate closely with the revenue team to identify opportunities for upselling and expanding our consultancy services to new and existing clients.
• Elevate our consultancy offerings by integrating advanced AI and data application use cases, staying ahead of industry trends.
• Manage and optimize resources, including strategic hiring and development of top-tier data engineering talent.
• Mentor, coach, and develop data engineering leads and team members, fostering a culture of trust and high performance. 
• Ensure seamless collaboration with sales, product, and other departments to align consultancy services with the company's overall strategy and goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data consultancy, preferably from a leading consultancy firms.
• Proven ability to engage with and build relationships at the CXO level, aligning and defining project scopes with client strategic objectives.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of motivating and developing technical teams, particularly in data engineering.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Solid technical foundation in data engineering, AI, and data applications.
• Experience in managing P&L, budgeting, and financial planning for a consultancy or business unit.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple departments and functions.

Benefits

• 100% remote company - We love to give our employees the freedom to choose where they want to work from.
• Wellness - We have monthly wellness programmes & workshops to make sure that all our employees are happy and satisfied.
• Competitive compensation -We offer competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• Parental Leave: We value and support the family planning process and we provide paid parental leave.
• Healthcare - We cover all employees’ health benefits and their dependents.
• Offsite- 1 team offsite a year to incredible destinations. Check out our recent offsites here: Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bali

About 5X

• 5X is a data and AI platform focussed on traditional industries (like Banking, Manufacturing, Retail, Real Estate, Healthcare, Education,Government).
• Traditional businesses are struggling with data silos, poor data quality - slowing the entire business now. These businesses are using legacy hard to reach systems or use platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Oracle which make it complex to get data out. 5X is able to extract data from hard to reach systems, centralize, clean, structure & model it and enable data & agentic Gen AI capabilities. Unlike legacy data platform implementations which take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars we are able to demonstrate end to end use cases in 48 hours at a fraction of the price.
• 5X was founded in 2020 with presence in the USA, Singapore, UK and India. Our global team is 70+ people strong and rapidly growing. We're backed by Flybridge Capital and creators of popular open source projects like Airflow, Superset, Parquet & founders from companies like Datadog, Astronomer, Mode, Rudderstack.

Know about the Company
• Website: https://5X.co/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datawith5X/mycompany/
• Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Reviews/5X-Reviews-E6110869.htm
• 5X in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ppi00Lw70