About the job
Join Relay in Revolutionizing Logistics!
At Relay, we are fundamentally transforming the way goods are transported in the digital age. With the backing of Europe’s largest logistics Series A funding ($35M) from visionary investors like Plural—whose portfolio ranges from fusion energy to space exploration—we are growing at an unprecedented pace, surpassing 99.98% of venture-backed startups. We are building an exceptionally talented team that is setting new benchmarks in the logistics sector.
Our Mission is to eliminate barriers to commerce. Currently, high delivery costs function as a hidden tax on e-commerce, dictating what can be sold online and who can engage in this space. We aspire to create a world where goods move freely among people, ensuring a seamless and accessible online shopping experience for all.
The Team
• A dynamic team of approximately 110 individuals, over half of whom are in engineering, product, and data roles.
• Home to 45+ advanced degrees in fields such as computer science, mathematics, and operations research.
• Handling thousands of data points for each parcel we manage, with extensive calculations, analyses, and predictions.
• A culture that thrives on first-principles thinking, rapid feedback loops, and relentless experimentation.
Your Opportunity
At Relay, our network generates data at every interaction—couriers, routes, parcels, sortation, pricing, and demand signals. This data serves as the foundation for every decision we make, especially as we increasingly integrate AI systems for autonomous decision-making.
As the Head of Data Platform, you will oversee the infrastructure that transforms raw data into actionable insights. This includes managing the transformation layer (dbt), the semantic layer (Cube), the pipelines that supply them, and the standards that ensure the output is reliable. You will be tasked with ensuring data readiness for human analysts, dashboards, machine learning models, and autonomous agents.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you will inherit a high-performing engine. The platform currently supports critical decision-making across all departments, backed by a robust dbt architecture and a semantic layer with strict naming conventions. Your mission is to elevate this 'V1' success into a world-class platform that remains the ultimate source of truth as our complexity scales.
You will lead a team of dedicated data and analytics engineers who possess deep technical expertise and take great pride in their work. They are autonomous and have a clear vision of excellence. What they need is a leader who can...

