Analytics Engineering Director

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat where impact innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Analytics organisation sits at the heart of Deliveroo powering decision-making across product commercial and operations through experimentation causal inference and machine learning.

From optimising rider dispatch to personalising customer journeys and forecasting demand at scale we turn complex data into measurable business impact.

Were looking for an Analytics Engineering Director to join our team in either London. In this role youll define the long-term vision for how we model and govern data ensuring our global teams have the high-quality foundations needed to drive mission-critical decisions at scale.

About Our Analytics Organisation

We have an outstanding analytics organisation with a mission to enable the highest quality human and machine decision-making. We work throughout the company in product business and platform teams and are uniquely placed to use data to help make better decisions and improve data literacy across Deliveroo.

Analytics Engineering is a core pillar of our Analytics Organisation alongside Data Science with over 100 Analytics Engineers across the UK Europe India and the US.

Our Analytics Engineers are embedded directly within product and business domains giving them clear context and ownership while operating with common design principles and ways of working within each company.

We operate at significant scale and complexity. Our data platform processes hundreds of Terabytes per day and powers everything from self-serve analytics and experiments through to executive reporting and strategic planning.

What Youll Be Doing

Youll be leading the Analytics Engineering team. This organisation is the foundation of our data ecosystem bridging the gap between raw engineering outputs and actionable business insights. Youll lead a global team of experts dedicated to building scalable high-quality data products that serve the entire business.

Heres what your day-to-day might look like:

• Define and execute the global vision and roadmap for analytics engineering in particular evolving our data strategy to be AI first

• Lead a high-performing organisation managing globally to foster a culture of technical excellence delivery and continuous growth

• Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Product Engineering and the Business to ensure analytics is embedded in every decision

• Drive Data as a Product owning the evolution of our data models and semantic layer ensuring teams can reliably self-serve from high-quality data products

• Champion governance and guardrails establishing rigorous standards for modelling semantics testing and auditability to ensure our data products are trusted and reliable.

• Maintain technical depth staying hands-on enough to review SQL/data models guide architectural decisions and troubleshoot high-priority incidents when needed.

What Youll Need to Thrive

Essential

• Significant experience leading large global analytics or data engineering organisations within complex high-growth environments

• Proven ability to define and execute long-term technical strategies across BI data modelling reporting and the intersection of analytics and AI.

• Deep technical credibility with a strong command of SQL and experience with modern data architectures and technologies.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at the executive level and navigate organisational ambiguity with confidence.

• A metrics-first mindset with a focus on ensuring technical execution translates into measurable business impact.

• A strong bias for action with the ability to move quickly deliver impact and iterate based on feedback

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal BI platforms or self-service ecosystems that empower non-technical users.

• Familiarity with AI-forward analytics such as AI-assisted querying or leveraging LLMs to improve data productivity.

Why Join Us

At Deliveroo youll do work that matters solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace thats constantly evolving. Were food lovers problem solvers community builders and more brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:

Solve meaningful problems at real scale

Work on a complex always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.

See your impact fast

Ship test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy high-ownership environment.

Grow through challenge and ownership

Take on big ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.

A culture built for builders

High standards collaboration flexible working and continuous learning.

Share in the success you help create

Competitive salary and equity options so youre rewarded for the impact you make.

Our Global Structure

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash bringing together teams with even greater reach scale and ambition. Depending on your role you may collaborate with teammates systems and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together were unlocking new possibilities as one global team.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

At Deliveroo we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger more creative and better at what we do. Were committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.

We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexual orientation gender identity socio-economic background religion or belief.

If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please contact our recruitment team at and well be happy to help ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

If youre excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious supportive teams wed love to hear from you!

Required Experience:

Director