Business Systems & Data Manager Full Time

£50,000 – £60,000 pa, Full time, Remote (UK)

The company

LeadDev is where the world’s best engineering leaders come to think, learn and connect. We run industry-leading conferences, publish original research, and produce content that shapes how engineering leadership is practised globally. We are a small, remote, high-performing team – and our technology is growing with us. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion, not just inside our team, but also in the content that we publish. 

The opportunity

Over the last three months, we have built internal AI infrastructure from scratch: MCP servers, a structured knowledge base, automated workflows on Google Cloud. And we are just getting started.

We are looking for someone to own the systems and data that keep this business running – and make them significantly better.

This is not a traditional IT role. It is for someone who is genuinely passionate with removing the friction that stops people doing their best work. Someone who, when they see a manual process, wants to understand why it exists and then permanently remove it. Someone who thinks in systems, cares about the people around them, and has the technical range to act on both.

You will work closely with our founder on technical strategy, own the coherence of our full systems estate, and play a central role in shaping how we use AI and automation as the business scales.

What you will own

• Salesforce – our single source of truth. Not just maintaining it, but designing it as a platform people genuinely want to use: flows, automations, integrations that hold, data that can be trusted.
• The full systems estate – BigQuery, ActiveCampaign, Zapier, WordPress, Looker Studio, Zoom and more. You will hold the coherence of the whole: clean data, robust integrations, sensible provider choices.
• Drudgery elimination – we know where our team’s time is being lost to manual work that shouldn’t exist. A core part of this role is systematically finding it and permanently removing it – through automation, better tooling, or making people genuinely self-sufficient through more user-friendly systems.
• Data security and governance – we hold significant volumes of personal and commercial data. You will be the active owner of our current governance framework.
• Technical strategy – working with the founder to shape how we approach AI, automation, and the build-vs-buy decisions that will determine what is possible over the next few years.

This role might be for you if…

You have come up through a business analyst or operations background, and you’ve spent time identifying what needs to change, and now you want the scope to actually own the fix. This role gives you both the insight and the implementation.

Or you have come up through a technical track, and what energises you is not the technology itself but using it to make a business work better. You find pure technical roles too narrow. This one will not be.

In either case: you are someone who gets genuine satisfaction from making other people’s working lives smoother. You notice the small frictions. You are not satisfied until they are permanently gone.

What we are looking for

Must have:

• Experience working with large CRMs or ERPs
• Experience with automation platforms
• Familiarity with AI coding tools such as Claude Code
• Comfort with APIs and system integrations
• SQL – able to critically assess AI written SQL and use AI tools to efficiently explore data
• Working knowledge of GDPR and data governance in practice
• The mindset to fix causes, not symptoms

Nice to have:

• Hands-on Salesforce experience – flows, automations, integrations, data model
• BigQuery, Snowflake or similar data warehouse
• Familiarity with AI tools and workflows – curiosity matters more than a track record
• Cloud infrastructure exposure (Google Cloud or AWS)
• Background in an events business

We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and actively encourage candidates who might not tick every box to apply.

The role in practice

Remote-first, with one to two days a month in London – one of which is a whole-team day.

You will work semi-independently: direction set with the founder, execution yours. There is real scope here, a close working relationship at the top of the business, and the genuine opportunity to shape something that is still being built.