Senior Client Data & Analytics Lead

Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo April 4 2026
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    Partially remote
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
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    Fluent Japanese
    Business English
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    Senior level
    Unspecified years of experience
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About Kraken

Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo

We believe energy should be better - for you and the environment. We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity.

Key benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Equity Options Scheme

About the position

We’re looking for a brilliant senior Data & Analytics Client Delivery Lead to help clients fully leverage Kraken data and transform their data team and capabilities. You should bring extensive experience doing analytics on a strong, modern data team (e.g., data analytics, business intelligence, or related field – analytics manager, lead data analyst, analytics or data consultant or similar); a love of working with clients; and a passion for driving the clean energy transition – energy sector experience is a plus!

You’ll work directly with Kraken clients to help them develop modern, transformative data and analytics capabilities as part of their broader Kraken transformation. You’ll train them on Kraken data and support them in building critical reporting & insightful analytics, sometimes getting hands-on with query writing or demo analytics.

You’ll also leverage your experience leading strong analytics teams to advise senior client data leadership on how to build a high-performing, business-centric data organization and leverage data as a strategic asset to unlock ambitious business and clean energy goals.

We are a flat and agile organisation and plan to remain this way. We are looking for a hands-on Data & Analytics Client Delivery Lead that can support both directly and indirectly - sometimes jumping in and writing queries or solving data challenges and other times advising or upskilling both clients and colleagues.

You will play a critical role in ensuring the clients’ reporting and analytics transition to Kraken goes smoothly - and ensuring that clients build the transformative data capabilities needed to get full value from Kraken data and power aspirational business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Guide clients in redefining critical reporting and analytics to use new Kraken data and concepts, through hands-on query writing, working sessions, and trainings
  • Advise clients, including senior leadership, on topics like how to develop a high-performing data organization, how to build a modern tech stack, and how to pursue a data strategy and priorities that drive their core business objectives.
  • Strategically define and prioritize client data needs to influence the data product roadmap, ensuring product understands the core, shared client needs and that solutions achieve clients’ desired business outcomes
  • Partner with engineering to deliver new data features and requirements aligned to client use cases
  • Train Kraken’s broader client delivery team on how to help their respective business domains ask effective data questions and leverage data directly to drive business impact

Requirements

  • Degree qualified equivalent, with strong client delivery and/or product ownership experience
  • Several years of experience as a data analytics, business intelligence, or related field – analytics manager, lead data analyst, analytics or data consultant or similar
  • Strong familiarity with modern data practices and tools
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Familiar with agile product development practices and experience collaborating with engineering
  • Excellent communications, collaboration and presentation skills
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to challenge traditional ways of thinking
  • Patience – our clients are undergoing huge transformations that take time and require our understanding
  • Experience in the energy sector a plus
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