Head of Data
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
Calo provides personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms, built with love by chefs, nutritionists, and software engineers. 💚Launched in Bahrain in 2019, we have since expanded to 5 countries in the region, delivered millions of meals to our customers, and launched our very own Grab & Go Cafe concepts.We're on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We think this is one of the most important problems to tackle in our world today. We have global ambitions - no small thinking here.Role OverviewWe’re looking for a Head of Data to lead our growing data team and turn data into a key driver of business impact. You’ll set the vision, build scalable foundations, and work closely with teams across product, growth, engineering, and operations. This is a leadership role with deep product and commercial exposure.Main Responsibilities
- Define and lead Calo’s data strategy across all business lines
- Manage a cross-functional team of analysts, scientists, and engineers
- Build and scale data processes, infrastructure, and tooling.
- Partner with product and business teams to drive growth, efficiency, and better decisions
- Establish clear, consistent metrics and support experimentation
- Champion a data-driven culture and raise data fluency across the company
- Experience leading cross-functional data teams across analytics, data science, and data engineering.
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence product, growth, and executive teams
- Solid grasp of data fundamentals (SQL, data modeling, metric definitions, even if not hands-on daily)
- Strong planning and process mindset; able to scale systems, not just outputs
- Commercially aware—understands how data impacts GTM, retention, and unit economics
- Familiarity with modern data tools like mixpanel, metabase, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Looker
- Experience in high-growth startups or scaling early-stage data functions
- Background in top consumer tech products
- A personal passion for food, health, or wellness