Senior Data Analyst

Location: UK based/ Remote-1st

About tiney

At tiney, we’re on a mission to unlock the potential of every child by revolutionising early years education.

We believe all children deserve access to high-quality, nurturing, play-based learning — and that the best way to make this happen is by empowering a new generation of brilliant childminders. Using technology, community, and creativity, we’re building a network of early educators who are trained, supported, and backed by a system designed to help them (and the children they care for) truly thrive.

Founded in 2018 by an experienced team with backgrounds at Teach First, Teach For All, graze.com and 383, tiney is a software-driven childcare company with ~100 employees. We’ve raised over £12m from top European VCs, and we’re already a top 5 childcare provider in the UK by childcare places — processing over £1m in payments every month.

🚀 In 2024, we were recognised as the 86th fastest growing start-up in the UK & Ireland, and we’re proud to be shortlisted for the Global EdTech Prize.

Our ambition? To move into the top 3, expand internationally, and build the world’s first home-based childcare operating system.

Our Values

🎈 Play is a superpower – Curiosity, joy, and creativity fuel innovation.

🌱 Rest is rocket fuel – We look after ourselves and each other to sustain impact.

🤝 Asking for help shows wisdom – Vulnerability and openness are strengths.

👶 Children at the core – Our policies and decisions support the whole person.

💬 Default to transparency – Trust comes from openness and honesty.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our remote-first UK team. You’ll report to the CTO and work closely with them and the executive team to architect, drive, and amplify tiney’s company-wide data strategy.

This role is central to defining, building, and scaling a modern data culture—enabling every team to make high-impact, insight-led decisions as we expand our platform and community. You’ll act as the lead authority on data: hands-on in the stack, strategic in vision, and a trusted partner to stakeholders across the business.

Location: Remote-first (UK-based), with occasional in-person off-sites and team days in London.

What you’ll be doing

• Data Strategy & Leadership (15%):

  Establish and evolve our data vision, governance, and infrastructure to embed data as a foundational asset for every function at tiney.

• End-to-End Data Architecture (25%):

  Own the full analytics stack—Dataform in BigQuery, Stitch & Census pipelines, and Metabase dashboards—ensuring scalability, reliability, and adoption.

• Advanced Analytics & Experimentation (25%):

  Lead complex analysis, modelling, A/B tests, and deep dives into business-critical, operational, and product data; present recommendations at executive level.

• Executive Stakeholder Partnership (20%):

  Act as a data advisor to the C-suite and business leads, translating complex analyses into actionable strategies for growth and performance.

• Team Enablement & Data Literacy (10%):

  Coach and mentor teammates across the business in data best practices; build self-serve tools and foster an organisation-wide culture of evidence-based decision making.

• Continuous Improvement (5%):

  Audit, evolve, and innovate our analytics tooling and processes as tiney grows, ensuring best-in-class data operations.

What we’re looking for

We value potential and attitude as much as experience—and for this senior role, we also need deep technical and strategic track record.

Must-haves:

• Significant experience (typically 5+ years) designing, building, and scaling analytics infrastructure and reporting for high-growth companies or complex organisations

• Advanced SQL and data modelling expertise, including hands-on with BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake, and frameworks like dbt or Dataform

• Demonstrable leadership in designing and measuring A/B or multivariate business/product experiments, with a track record of translating results into strategy

• Proven ability to influence executive leadership with data-backed insight, drive adoption of new data tools/processes, and establish best-practice governance

• Experience architecting and managing modern ETL/reverse ETL pipelines (e.g., Stitch, Census, Airflow, Fivetran)

• Mastery of dashboarding/BI platforms (Metabase, Looker, Tableau, Power BI or similar) and a passion for impactful, intuitive reporting

• Outstanding communicator with a history of mentoring analysts and coaching non-technical teams on data interpretation

• Commercial and entrepreneurial mindset; highly self-directed and motivated by business impact

• UK-based and able to attend periodic sessions in London

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in the early years, EdTech, or mission-driven sectors

• Familiarity with startup or scale-up environments

• Hands-on experience growing a data function as the first or only analyst/lead

• Exposure to compliance and data privacy in sensitive or regulated domains

What success looks like

🪄 1 month in – You’ve built trust, mapped our data estate, and scoped your roadmap alongside the execs

🌱 3 months in – You’ve architected & delivered the first strategic upgrades to core reporting, and enabled a key function to hit a new data milestone

🎯 6 months in – You’re leading company-level experiments and are the go-to for insight, data tooling, and governance

🚀 12 months in – You’ve scaled tiney’s data capability, shaped strategic outcomes, and cemented yourself as a foundational leader in our growth story

Who you’ll be working with

You’ll join a close-knit, cross-functional team of educators, technologists and operators, with experience from Teach First, Babylon, Monzo, and Google. Together, we:

• Balance focus and fun, serious impact and serious play

• Support each other through feedback and regular 1:1s

• Celebrate wins (with gifs, ukuleles, and sometimes cake 🎂)

Compensation & Benefits

Company stock options

28 days paid leave (including 4 days during our Christmas closedown)

At-home workstation set-up

Life and long-term sickness insurance

Up to £5k of childcare contributions for working parents

A paid reflection day during your first month

A day off for your birthday 🎉

A paid sabbatical after 5 years

Access to Self Space therapy sessions

Whole-team social activities

Interview Process

We like to keep things friendly, thoughtful and efficient. Typically:

1. Initial Call – A short video chat with someone from our team

2. Take home task – You’ll prepare something relevant to the role

3. Technical Interview – A deep dive into your task and experience

4. Team Chat – Meet your future teammates

5. Offer – We move fast when we know we’ve found the right person!

Our Commitment

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, foster inclusion, and are committed to building a team that reflects the children and communities we serve.

If our mission excites you but you’re not sure you meet every requirement — please apply anyway.