Data Senior Partner

Location: Manchester & Hybrid

Type: Full-Time (5 days per week)

The Opportunity

Are you a master translator of data who can turn complex measurement strategies into clear, actionable roadmaps that clients love to use?

Open Partners is looking for a Data Senior Partner to own the translation of data strategy into delivery. This critical role bridges the gap between our high-level measurement thinking and client-facing execution. Sitting alongside our engineering capability, you will be the near-term priority as we rebuild this part of our team, turning technical concepts into work that internal teams and clients understand, adopt, and act on.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You will balance commercial acumen with clear communication to ensure our data and measurement projects are delivered flawlessly:

Strategy Translation & Execution: Take high-level data strategies, concepts, and plans, and turn them into highly structured, clear delivery plans.

Client-Facing Delivery: Lead live data and measurement projects, acting as the primary face of data delivery for clients and ensuring they fully understand the value of what is being delivered.

Technical Translation: Act as the strategic bridge between our technical engineering team and non-technical stakeholders, bringing complex data concepts to life in a way that is clear and compelling.

Commercial Partner Funding: Proactively identify and secure funding opportunities from key platform partners including Google, Meta, and Amazon.

Engineering Collaboration: Partner closely with the Data Centre of Excellence engineering team, clearly briefing in technical requirements without needing to write the code yourself.

Quality & Governance: Act as the senior escalation point for clients on data delivery, reducing project drift and establishing clear definitions of done.

What Success Looks Like

Commercial Impact: In your first year, your role is cost-neutral through partner funding secured. By year two, you have established the role as a profit centre.

Operational Alignment: You have drastically reduced project drift and established clear, agreed-upon definitions of done across all live data and measurement work.

Client Advocacy: Client and internal teams can clearly articulate what they are getting from our data work and why it directly impacts their business.

What You’ll Bring

Delivery Track Record: Proven experience translating high-level data strategy or complex measurement concepts into successful delivery plans.

Outstanding Communication: The ability to present complex technical, analytical, or data-led concepts in an engaging and simple way to non-technical stakeholders.

Platform & Partner Knowledge: Experience building relationships or a clear strategy to partner with platforms like Google, Meta, and Amazon to secure funding.

Conceptual Data Expertise: A solid conceptual understanding of measurement methodologies, attribution, or econometrics, along with a working familiarity with Big Query.

Collaborative Leadership: The ability to brief and guide highly technical engineering specialists without needing deep, hands-on engineering skills yourself.

Bonus Points: Experience in a data planning, consultancy, or client delivery lead role within an agency, or familiarity with modern conversational analytics platforms like ThoughtSpot.

Our Values & Mindset

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. If you do not have direct industry experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable analytical skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three standards:

Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.

Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.

Better: Think, say, and do what is best.

Ready to elevate your career? Apply today!