About the role We are looking for a highly capable, hands-on Data Lead to build and scale PetroApp’s data function.
This role will own the end-to-end data roadmap across analytics, business intelligence, data engineering, governance, and advanced analytics use cases.
You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Leadership to make data a core competitive advantage for PetroApp.
You will be responsible for building a trusted data foundation, defining the right KPIs, improving decision-making across the company, and enabling high-impact use cases such as transaction analytics, customer growth, fraud/anomaly detection, operational efficiency, and unit economics.
Key responsibilities Define and own PetroApp’s data strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
Build and scale the company’s data foundation, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, warehousing, and self-service analytics.
Create a single source of truth for key business and product metrics.
Partner with Product and Engineering to improve instrumentation, event tracking, experimentation, and measurement.
Partner with Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Leadership to deliver actionable insights and decision-ready dashboards.
Design KPI frameworks for areas such as customer growth, retention, transaction performance, service adoption, operational efficiency, fraud/leakage, and profitability.
Build dashboards, reporting layers, and analytical models that support both day-to-day execution and executive decision-making.
Establish strong data governance practices, including data quality checks, lineage, documentation, definitions, access controls, and privacy standards.
Identify and prioritize high-value use cases for advanced analytics, forecasting, anomaly detection, and automation.
Lead root-cause analysis on business or operational issues and convert findings into measurable actions.
Hire, mentor, and grow a lean, high-performing data team over time.
Act as the internal champion for a strong data culture across PetroApp.
You will own and shape the security function in a high-impact, hands-on lead role.
You’ll work at the intersection of security, reliability, and platform engineering, directly influencing how PetroApp scales.
Opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and a team that values pragmatism, automation, and continuous improvement.
A culture that cares about doing the right thing for customers and partners, with leadership support for investing in security and reliability.
10+ years of experience across data analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
2+ years leading major data initiatives, squads, or teams.
Strong hands-on expertise in SQL and Python.
Experience with modern cloud data stacks and tools such as data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration tools, transformation frameworks, and BI platforms.
Strong experience designing dashboards and reporting for business and executive stakeholders.
Proven ability to define KPIs, create semantic consistency, and translate ambiguous business questions into structured analysis.
Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline design, and analytics best practices.
Experience working in high-growth environments with cross-functional stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong ownership mindset and willingness to operate hands-on.
Preferred experience Experience in SaaS, fintech, payments, mobility, logistics, fleet management, marketplaces, or other transaction-heavy businesses.
Experience with fraud analytics, anomaly detection, risk analytics, or reconciliation-heavy environments.
Experience building data capabilities in a scaling company, including hiring and team design.
Familiarity with experimentation, forecasting, segmentation, and behavioral analytics.
Exposure to data governance, privacy, and access management in regulated or sensitive environments.
Why join this role This is an opportunity to build the data function at the center of a scaling business.
The Data Lead will shape how PetroApp measures performance, prioritizes opportunities, reduces leakage, improves customer outcomes, and scales intelligently.
