
Relay is revolutionizing e-commerce delivery with a tech-driven, hyperlocal network that enhances speed, sustainability, and efficiency. Their innovative approach replaces traditional delivery models, reducing costs and emissions while providing a seamless customer experience. With real-time tracking and a commitment to performance, Relay positions itself as a leading partner for retailers looking to elevate their delivery services. The company boasts a strong leadership team with extensive experience in logistics and technology, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet the demands of modern e-commerce.

Relay is revolutionizing e-commerce delivery with a tech-driven, hyperlocal network that enhances speed, sustainability, and efficiency. Their innovative approach replaces traditional delivery models, reducing costs and emissions while providing a seamless customer experience. With real-time tracking and a commitment to performance, Relay positions itself as a leading partner for retailers looking to elevate their delivery services. The company boasts a strong leadership team with extensive experience in logistics and technology, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet the demands of modern e-commerce.
What they do: Tech-driven hyperlocal last-mile and middle-mile delivery network for e-commerce
Founded: 2022
Headquarters (registration): England & Wales (Hatton Garden, London)
Recent funding: $35M Series A (Feb 2025)
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Last-mile and middle-mile e-commerce logistics; reducing delivery time, cost and emissions for retailers.
2022
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
$35,000,000
Round included participation from Project A and Prologis Ventures; announced to scale last-mile network in the UK and Europe.
“Plural Platform; participation from Project A Ventures and Prologis Ventures”
Relay is fundamentally reshaping how goods move in an online era. Backed by Europe’s largest-ever logistics Series A ($35M), led by deep-tech investors Plural (whose portfolio spans fusion energy and space exploration), Relay is scaling faster than 99.98% of venture-backed startups. We're assembling the most talent-dense team the logistics industry has ever seen
Relay’s Mission is to free commerce from friction . Today, high delivery costs act as a hidden tax on e-commerce, quietly shaping what can be sold online and limiting who can participate. We envision a world where more goods move more freely between more people , making the online shopping experience seamless and accessible to everyone.
THE TEAM
The Opportunity Relay's network generates data at every touchpoint. Couriers, routes, parcels, sortation, pricing, demand signals. That data is the raw material for every decision the business makes, and increasingly, for the AI systems that make decisions autonomously.
As Head of Data Platform, you will own the infrastructure that turns raw data into usable signal. That means the transformation layer (dbt), the semantic layer (Cube), the pipelines that feed them, and the standards that make the output trustworthy. You will be responsible for data being ready for human analysts, for dashboards, for ML models, and for agents that act without human review.
This is a foundational leadership role where you will inherit a high-performing engine. The platform already powers critical decision-making across every department, underpinned by a mature dbt architecture, a semantic layer with rigorous naming conventions, and a workflow where the team has successfully leveraged AI to drive exceptional productivity. Your challenge is to take this 'V1' success and scale it into a global-class platform that remains the single source of truth as our complexity grows.
You will lead a team of data and analytics engineers who are deeply technical and take immense pride in their craft. They are highly autonomous and possess a clear vision for what 'good' looks like. What they need is someone who can set strategic direction, prioritise across competing demands, and represent the platform's interests at leadership level. You will work closely with Engineering to shape how upstream systems produce data, not reactively cleaning up after them.
This role reports to the Director of Data.
What You'll Do
Who Will Thrive in This Role?
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Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a workplace where everyone thrives.