Chief Data & Intelligence Officer

Retail Brands | Entrepreneurial Leadership Opportunity | Equity Incentive📍 Location: Remote-first, with hybrid options in Paris and New York🌍 Work arrangement: Remote or hybrid🤝 Equity incentive offeredAbout Retail BrandsRetail Brands is building a global intelligence platform dedicated to retail and consumer brands.Our ambition is to transform fragmented information into structured, reliable and actionable intelligence, helping businesses understand brand performance, competitive positioning, market developments and strategic opportunities.Through our Brand Index, scoring methodologies and intelligence signals, we are developing a new way for corporate decision-makers to understand brands worldwide.We are building a company where data credibility, analytical rigour and commercial relevance are fundamental to the product.The opportunity: From corporate expertise to entrepreneurial ownershipHave you built your expertise in a major consulting firm, a retail intelligence company, a data analytics business or a large corporate organisation?Have you reached a point where you want more than another step up the corporate hierarchy? More ownership, more autonomy, closer involvement in business decisions and the opportunity to build something of your own?This could be your next chapter.We are looking for a high-potential professional ready to grow into the role of Chief Data & Intelligence Officer and help shape the future of Retail Brands.This is not a search for an established C-level executive. We are interested in someone with strong foundations, demonstrated capabilities and an entrepreneurial mindset who is ready to take on broader responsibility.Working directly with the founder, you will help strengthen the credibility of our intelligence, develop the analytical foundations of our product and represent Retail Brands in front of corporate customers.You will contribute not only to what we build, but also to how we position it, demonstrate its value and turn it into a successful business.An equity incentive is part of the opportunity, aligning your contribution with the long-term value you help create.Your responsibilities1. Data & intelligence qualityStrengthen the reliability, consistency and traceability of our brand intelligence.Improve entity resolution, source verification and signal validation.Help ensure that scores and analytical claims are supported by relevant, cross-checked evidence.Identify data-quality weaknesses and prioritise improvements with the greatest impact on customer trust.Work with our technical contributors to improve existing data pipelines and quality controls.2. Brand Index & methodologyDevelop a deep understanding of the Brand Index, including Momentum, Strength, Affinity and the risk multiplier.Help refine scoring methodology, validation processes and analytical consistency.Translate complex data into clear, defensible insights.Ensure that methodology, limitations and confidence levels can be explained transparently to corporate customers.3. Corporate relationships & enterprise salesPresent Retail Brands to corporate decision-makers and prospective customers.Lead or support product demonstrations and discussions about business use cases.Engage with stakeholders across strategy, marketing, competitive intelligence, expansion and corporate development.Help develop proposals, pilots and enterprise opportunities.Address questions about data quality, analytical methodology, intelligence coverage and commercial value.Work directly with the founder to advance qualified opportunities towards commercial agreements.Bring customer feedback into product development and positioning.4. Intelligence product developmentIdentify opportunities to improve the relevance and usefulness of our intelligence.Translate customer needs into clear product and analytical priorities.Work with the founder and technical contributors to turn ideas into practical improvements.Help build repeatable processes that support quality and scale without unnecessary complexity.5. Building the intelligence functionTake ownership of priorities and deliverables from diagnosis through execution.Establish measurable quality standards and monitor progress.Operate across data, product, strategy and commercial activities.Help shape the function as Retail Brands grows, progressively taking on broader leadership responsibilities.Who we're looking forWe are particularly interested in professionals who have developed strong expertise within established organisations and are now ready for a more entrepreneurial environment.Your background could include:Retail analytics, consumer intelligence or market research.Data analytics, business intelligence or quantitative analysis.Competitive intelligence, strategy consulting or strategic research.Data-product management or analytics solutions.Enterprise intelligence or B2B data platforms.Retail or consumer-industry strategy and business development.You do not need to have held a C-level position. Relevant experience may come from roles such as Analytics Manager, Senior Data Analyst, Data Product Manager, Engagement Manager, Intelligence Lead, Analytics Solutions Manager or Strategy Manager.What matters most:Strong analytical thinking and intellectual curiosity.The ability to question evidence, challenge assumptions and communicate conclusions clearly.Confidence presenting complex information to business stakeholders.Commercial curiosity and a genuine willingness to participate in enterprise sales.A sense of ownership and the ability to work independently.Adaptability, resourcefulness and comfort with the uncertainty of an early-stage company.Humility, integrity and a willingness to learn beyond your existing area of expertise.The ambition to grow into a leadership role and help build a company, not simply manage an established function.Experience in retail, consumer brands, market intelligence or data-driven B2B products is a strong advantage.The entrepreneurial environmentRetail Brands is an early-stage company. We are building, testing, improving and refining as we grow.This means working close to the founder, contributing directly to strategic decisions and moving between analytical work, product thinking and customer conversations.You will have room to shape the role, take ownership and influence the company's direction. You will also need to be comfortable with limited resources, evolving priorities and the practical realities of startup life.We value what you can build, the quality of your judgement and your ability to turn expertise into tangible results more than titles or established corporate processes.Location & working arrangementThis is a remote-first opportunity, open to candidates in different locations.Hybrid working is also possible for candidates based in or able to work from Paris or New York, where Retail Brands has its headquarters. Occasional in-person collaboration may be arranged depending on location and business needs.The precise working arrangement will be agreed with the successful candidate.What we offerAn opportunity to grow into a senior leadership role through meaningful responsibility.Direct collaboration with the founder and involvement in strategic decisions.Exposure to data intelligence, product development, corporate relationships and enterprise sales.The opportunity to help shape a global intelligence platform from an early stage.An equity incentive, with terms to be discussed transparently.A remote-first working environment with flexibility in how and where you work.If you are ready to turn your expertise into entrepreneurial leadership, we would like to hear from you.#Consulting #Retail #DataIntelligence #Entrepreneurship #Hiring