Automation & Data Lead

🚀 About the Role 
A&D is a brand-new team at Temper. For years, data and automation responsibilities have been scattered across the organisation. Most of the data side responsibilities have lied with the analytics engineer, while several other people elsewhere in the business were responsible for analyses and automations within their own domain. But there is a focus shift going on from traditional analyst work to enabling the business to fully utilise AI and its potential. Team A&D will be formed to centralise that work into one team with a real mandate and roadmap. And to go beyond it!

You're the first hire into it. Your first challenge? Building the team.

📅 What You’ll Be Doing on a Typical Workday

• Define what A&D actually needs across three areas
  • Data infrastructure - govern and improve the infrastructure that transforms data from a multitude of sources into usable assets
  • Data activation & development - design self-serving BI landscape (currently in Looker), owning the semantic layer, and getting new data and data products into use
  • Automation - helping every team at Temper automate manual work, and driving the company's AI-native ambition more broadly. The responsibility is end to end, from identifying manual operations to prioritisation, solution design and implementation

• Plot the workload into roles and hire into those roles once they're defined
• Once the team exists, work out whether the data/automation work already happening in pockets of the business today has a natural home in it
• Set the team's own way of working to be AI-native from day one — this team should be a proof point for how Temper works with AI, not just a function that occasionally uses it

👥 The Team
You won't inherit a team — you'll build one. That's the point of this role, not a gap in it: Temper deliberately chose to define A&D's scope first, rather than back into a structure built around whoever happened to be doing data-adjacent work already — the specific roles are yours to define. You'll report into the CFO, and work directly with people across Commercial, Marketing, Support, Product, and Finance from day one, since A&D's mandate touches all of them.

🎯 What makes you a great fit

• Experience building or substantially restructuring a small technical team. From hiring and defining roles to growing and managing your existing team.
• Solid technical grounding in a modern data stack (a warehouse like BigQuery, a transformation tool like Dataform or DBT, BI tooling like Looker). As Lead of a team that stays lean, expect to be hands-on yourself on a regular basis — this isn't a role where you only direct other people's implementation work.
• Real enthusiasm for AI/LLM tooling (we use Claude) as something that changes what a data team should look like, not a nice-to-have bolted on afterwards.
• Comfortable operating with genuine ambiguity. This covers the shape of the team, its roles, and how existing roles within the business fit into it.
• Strong stakeholder management. You'll be dealing with requests and priorities from nearly every function in the company.
• A track record of actually shipping things end to end — this role is as much about getting projects over the line as designing them.
• A real sense for data governance — guardrails, access control, and traceability aren't optional at the scale AI lets a small team operate at.
• Fluent English. Dutch is a bonus, not a must.

Great to have:

• Prior experience starting up or restructuring a data/analytics function specifically.
• Experience with GCP and with AI/agent tooling in a real production/business context.
• Experience managing a remote team.
  
  

🎁 How we make your life work

• Flexible working (for real). Some of us want to get out of bed early, others are night owls. We focus on results, not on what time you start or where you do your work.
• Unlimited vacation days. As long as you get a thumbs-up from your manager, you can always take vacation days to rest and recoup your energy.
• Company Equity Plan (SARs). We want everyone at Temper to Own It and be part of our growth and success.
• Learning & development budget. Once a year, you get a generous personal budget to develop your skills.
• Personal well-being budget. Every year you get access to a well-being budget, so you can bring your best self to work.
• Home working allowance. A home office budget for a comfy desk chair, laptop, and whatever else you need.

💚 We are Temper
Temper is the shift platform connecting FreeFlexers and Temper Staff workers with the businesses that need them, right when they need them. Sign up today, work tomorrow: workers choose their own shifts and get paid the Friday after, while over 10,000 businesses in hospitality, retail, logistics, facility services, and beyond get fast, reliable flexible staffing without the overhead of a traditional agency.

We're headquartered in the Netherlands, with a growing team in the UK. Five values guide how we work together: we do it for them, we move and improve, we share to succeed, we own it, and we battle for the best.