Head of Healthcare Data Platform (m/f/d)

At Statista, we’re all about facts and data, for we are the world's leading business data platform. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data as well as various data analytics products and services, we empower people worldwide to make fact-based decisions.

Founded in Hamburg in 2007, we have quickly grown into a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. And we still have a lot of plans. Our constant growth does not only prove our success, but also keeps creating new development and career opportunities for our employees.

We value and celebrate our diverse culture. You are welcome here for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or whether you prefer bar graphs to pie charts. Your story matters – keep writing it as part of our team.

Are you ready to join us?

About Statista Healthcare
Statista Healthcare is a vertical business unit of Statista, focused on making healthcare quality transparent, measurable, and comparable across countries, care settings, and specialties. We work with leading healthcare stakeholders worldwide to support data-driven quality measurement and transformation by combining in-depth analytical expertise with scalable technology and communication power.

Our offerings span international rankings, ratings, benchmarking studies, and customized consulting projects. Our global healthcare rankings and hospital rating is published in collaboration with our trusted media partner Newsweek, enabling high visibility and credibility across markets.

We help healthcare organizations define relevant key performance indicators, validate and harmonize data structures, and translate insights into actionable strategies. At the heart of our approach is a data driven understanding of healthcare quality, grounded in robust methodologies, global comparability, and stakeholder trust.

In our consulting projects, we support healthcare providers and systems in developing tailored KPI frameworks, standardizing and validating data processes, and deriving actionable insights that enable measurable improvements in patient care and system-level performance. We combine structured methodologies with hands-on delivery to unlock the full value of healthcare quality data.

Your Role
As Product Owner Healthcare Data Platform, you will lead the strategic, customer-centric, organizational, and technical build-up of Statista’s scalable healthcare data platform, one of the three core pillars of Statista Healthcare. Your mission is to transform today’s data environment into a unified, automated, and scalable platform that enables Statista Healthcare’s future growth.

You will be responsible for defining the product around a clear and sustainable USP and transforming this vision into a scalable, product-ready platform that consolidates all existing healthcare data assets (e.g., Rankings and Ratings), is capable of integrating new data sources and allows the development of new data service offerings. The platform will serve as the central infrastructure for harmonizing healthcare data, powering analytical workflows, and enabling new services.

This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role: You will define core use cases, design the platform model, lead its technical development, and build the dedicated team required to deliver it. Reporting directly to the VP Statista Healthcare, you will play a key role in shaping Statista’s next growth phase as a data-driven healthcare organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic and technical roadmap for the Statista Healthcare Data Platform, from MVP definition to global roll-out

• Design and implement the target architecture for unified, automated, and product-ready healthcare data (ETL/ELT, data models, APIs, quality assurance, security, and compliance)

• Develop and operationalize a platform-based business model that is scalable, while simultaneously supporting existing business lines (Rankings, Ratings)

• Transform legacy systems into a sustainable platform architecture, replacing partially manual processes and structures with robust, maintainable solutions

• Build, develop and lead the core platform team, defining delivery standards, roles, and operating processes

• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across Healthcare Analysis, Consulting, Data Science, and IT to ensure full integration and data consistency

• Oversee the integration of external and proprietary data sources, ensuring interoperability, data quality, and governance

• Ensure alignment between commercial, technical, and strategic priorities, balancing innovation speed with scalability and reliability

• Define KPIs for platform adoption, data availability, and business impact, and report progress to Statista leadership

Your Profile

• 8+ years of experience in data-driven product development, platform architecture, or digital transformation (e.g., management or technology consulting firms, digital health consultancies, or SaaS companies)

• Strong blend of technical fluency (data engineering concepts, APIs, cloud-based databases) and business orientation (product vision, customer value, monetization).

• Experience in building or leading data platforms, ideally in healthcare, life sciences, or analytics-heavy environments

• Excellent stakeholder and team leadership skills, able to align diverse functions and scale new capabilities

• Fluent in English (German optional)

What we offer

In addition to our great team, culture, and our shared goal of empowering people with data, there are many other things that make Statista a great place to work! Join us and benefit from:

• Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year

• Hybrid work and flex-time

• International team and social events

• Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options

• Free access to Perplexity Enterprise and all its amazing functionalities

• Career & training opportunities

• Attractive locations and modern offices

• Mental health support with OpenUp

Some of the benefits listed here apply only to the German entity and to Junior-level roles or above.