VP DATA

Mirakl is building a hybrid agentic company that relies on data, AI, and agentic foundations to drive its next phase of growth. We are looking for a senior leader to run the Data organization, build secure and scalable data infrastructure, and enable AI and agentic product development.

What You’ll Do

1. Lead the Data Organization
   • Scale and manage Data teams across platform, analytics, and AI foundations
   • Define and execute the Data, AI, and Agentic Foundations strategy
   • Own a €3M+ budget (infra, tooling, scaling)
   • Drive alignment across AI, Product, Engineering, and Business
   • Ensure execution, prioritization, and delivery at scale
2. Build Data Foundations
   • Deliver a scalable, secure, governed data platform (hundreds of TBs)
   • Structure data raw → silver → gold for analytics and AI
   • Ensure data quality, reliability, observability, and security
   • Align data models with core business domains (revenue, ops, product)
3. Enable AI Development & Serving
   • Build a best‑in‑class AI development platform
   • Provide Data Scientists, Agent Builders, and AI Engineers with tooling for:
     • Model development, testing, deployment
     • Experimentation at scale
   • Operate robust model serving / inference (trillions of tokens/year)
   • Ensure performance, monitoring, and cost control
4. Build Agentic Foundations
   • Enable teams to develop, run, and evaluate agents at scale
   • Provide tooling for:
     • Development (frameworks, integrations)
     • Execution (orchestration, tools, memory) and Monitoring
     • Evaluation (metrics, testing, feedback loops)
   • Standardize agent lifecycle, safety, and reliability
5. Power Analytics & Agentic Products
   • Deliver analytics for internal and product use cases
   • Build and scale analytics agents (internal & in‑product)
   • Build data, semantic, and context layers that are consistent, reusable, and agent‑ready

Who You Are

Background

• 10–15 years in data, AI, or platform organizations, leading high‐performing cross‑functional teams (platform, analytics, AI)
• Proven track record building data platforms and analytics systems that drive business decisions and power product experiences
• Experience delivering data and analytics products (semantic layers, metrics, business‑facing models)
• Strong understanding of data + AI ecosystems (analytics, LLMs, agents) and their business impact
• Experience operating production systems in cloud environments, working closely with MLOps and AI/agent teams

What Makes You Successful

• Build production‑grade platforms and organizations that scale
• Connect data, AI development, and serving into one system
• Balance performance, cost, security, and business impact
• Drive execution with high reliability and quality standards
• Operate with a platform mindset and product intuition
• AI‑native, hands‑on with emerging paradigms like agentic coding
• Drive transformation, upskilling teams and embedding new practices

Success Metrics

• Business impact (product value, productivity, efficiency)
• Data quality, reliability, and security
• Model serving performance (latency, cost, scalability)
• Platform adoption & speed (AI & agent adoption, time to build, deploy, and evaluate models and agents, budget efficiency)

Organization & Scope

• 25+ people in Data (part of 75+ Data & AI org) with squad setup
• Data & Agentic Platform (17): Data Eng, SRE, MLOps, Agentic Platform
• Data Product & Analytics (8): Analytics Eng, Data Product
• End‑to‑end ownership: data → analytics → AI & agents platform
• Ownership of €3M+ annual budget

We welcome collaborators with diverse perspectives and experiences to power us forward. These often far exceed conventional job requirements and help us create a culture of continuous learning.

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