Hack The Box
Director of Data & Analytics
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The core mission of the Director of Data & Analytics:
Hack The Box is on a mission to redefine cybersecurity readiness for the AI era — and data is the engine room of that mission. As Director of Data & Analytics, you will own the execution of HTB's data platform and analytics strategy: a GCP-native ecosystem (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Bigtable but also some legacy in Aiven - kafka / Clickhouse - Snowflake) serving analytics, ML, and AI workloads across every product line, from Academy and Labs to Enterprise and AI Range.
In your first 6 months, you'll take operational command of a 10–12 person team across data engineering, analytics engineering, and BI, drive our Snowflake-to-BigQuery consolidation to the finish line, and establish delivery rhythms, SLOs, and quality gates that make the platform boringly reliable. Over the next year, you'll scale the function: company-wide data governance and data contracts, self-serve analytics adopted by every department, and a data platform that powers HTB's AI products — not just its dashboards.
🏢 Location & Work Mode:
Athens, Attica, Greece
Hybrid (2 days in the office, 3 days remote). Those based within 55 km of our Athens office will follow a hybrid work model. For candidates located beyond that radius, a fully remote arrangement is available.
✈️ Relocation
We offer a 10% relocation bonus on the annual salary to support your move.
In addition, you would benefit from a 50% tax reduction on your income as part of the relocation.
We'll support you with accommodation during the first few weeks
🍺 The fellowship you’ll be joining:
You'll lead a guild of 10–12 data professionals spanning three crafts:
- Data Engineers building and operating streaming and batch pipelines (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Kafka, Airflow) and the BigQuery/Bigtable platform
- Analytics Engineers owning the layered modeling of our warehouse and the semantic foundations of company metrics
- BI & Analytics specialists turning platform data into decisions for Product, Growth, Finance, and the executive team
You will report directly to the VP of Data, Analytics & AI, and work side by side with the AI/ML infrastructure function (self-hosted GPU inference, LLM platform) within the same department.
Your key stakeholders outside the department: Software Development, Infrastructure Product Management, Finance, Growth/Marketing, and the executive team, who rely on your team's numbers to steer the company.
⚔️ Technology tools & weapons you’ll be using:
- Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Bigtable, Vertex AI Feature Store
- Apache Flink/Spark
- Streaming & messaging: Kafka (Aiven), Pub/Sub with Avro schemas and schema registry (Karapace)
- Orchestration & transformation: Airflow, layered BigQuery modeling, Python
- Analytics & BI: modern BI tooling (Looker/Tableau), product analytics (Amplitude), experimentation platforms.
- Governance: data contracts, CI/CD quality gates
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🚀 The adventures that await you after becoming Director of Data & Analytics at Hack The Box:
- Lead and grow a 10 person team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and BI specialists — hiring, coaching, and developing the next generation of leads within the team
- Own the delivery roadmap of the data platform: prioritize across stakeholder demands, set quarterly OKRs, and keep commitments visible and honest
- Drive the consolidation onto our GCP-native architecture (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Bigtable), completing the migration off legacy warehouses and CDC pipelines
- Operationalize data governance company-wide: schema contracts, compatibility tiers, CI/CD gates, and documented business semantics across services
- Establish engineering discipline: SLOs for data freshness and pipeline reliability, cost observability (FinOps for BigQuery), incident response, and documentation standards
- Champion self-serve analytics, defining the company's metrics layer and raising data literacy so stakeholders answer their own questions — and trust the answers
- Partner with the AI/ML function to ensure the platform feeds feature stores, model training, and AI product telemetry as first-class workloads
- Represent the data function to the executive team: translate platform investment into business outcomes, and business strategy into platform priorities
🏆 Skills, knowledge, and experience points required to unlock the role of Director of Data & Analytics at Hack The Box:
- 8–10+ years in data engineering/analytics, including 4+ years managing data teams (managers and/or senior ICs) of 8 or more people in a product or SaaS company
- Proven delivery of a modern cloud data platform — ideally GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow); strong experience with another major cloud warehouse stack also counts.
- Hands-on fluency with streaming architectures: Kafka or Pub/Sub, schema management (Avro/Protobuf, schema registries), and data contracts between producing services and the platform
- Track record of establishing data governance and quality practice that engineers actually follow — compatibility policies, CI gates, lineage, and documentation
- Strong analytics leadership: building metrics layers, BI adoption, and experimentation practices that change how a business makes decisions
- Executive-grade communication — you can defend an architecture decision to engineers in the morning and a budget to the CFO in the afternoon
- Bonus XP: exposure to ML/AI data infrastructure (feature stores, model telemetry), cybersecurity or gaming/community-driven products, ClickHouse/Druid.
🕹️ What your Hack The Box adventure will have in store:
- 🎯 You'll have the exhilarating opportunity to contribute to a product that is highly appreciated by users and the cybersecurity community at large.
- 🎯 You'll experience a highly supportive and caring environment, fostering growth, flexibility, and autonomy.
- 🎯 You'll embark on an exciting journey of continuous learning and problem-solving, leveling up as our organization grows.
- 🎯 Most importantly, you'll have a blast at HTB 🥳 because fun is an essential ingredient in our recipe for success! Just wait until you see our global meet-ups!
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💰 We also have other benefits that will keep you happy:
- Private health care
- Paid parental leave (4 weeks)
- 25 annual leave days
- Free lunch & snacks at the office
- 120€ Ticket Restaurant by Edenred
- Dedicated budget for training and professional development, participation in conferences
- Full access to the Hack The Box lab offerings; so you can learn how to hack 😉
- State-of-the-art equipment (mac, iPhone, and mobile plan)
- Flexible WFH (Hybrid Model) - Fully Remote is also an option if you're not an Attica resident
- Annual childcare allowance to support daycare expenses for parents
- Access to on-site gym and a variety of group activities, including Cross Training, Pilates, Boxing, and Climbing
Our benefits package is designed to provide strong support to our team, but it may vary depending on location and type of employment (e.g., UK, US, Greece, Australia, or engagement through an Employer of Record or contract).
🗺️ The Quest of Becoming Hack The Box’s Director of Data & Analytics at HTB:
- Level 1 — Apply: Submit your application. Tell us why this role excites you and what you’d bring.
- Level 2 — Talent Screen: A conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to explore your background and ambitions.
- Level 3 — A relaxed conversation with your future manager. Think of it as a mutual vibe check.
- Level 4 — A real-world scenario that lets you show how you’d approach people & technical management with your unique perspective. You’ll present your work to a panel of the team — no trick questions, no gotchas, just a chance to show us how you think and tell a story.
- Level 5 — Stakeholder interview: An opportunity to meet with core stakeholders of HTB that you will collaborate closely with
- Level 6 — Congratulations! Not many reach this level 💪. Level’s objective: have a constructive, final conversation with senior leadership to explore the role and your future at HTB.
- Level 7 — You've officially received an offer from HTB! To complete the last level and the Quest, all you need to do is accept the offer. Quest complete. Congratulations, you’re officially one of us 🥳🎉🎇Your next quest: complete the onboarding.
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