Senior Manager

Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Analytics Engineers
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, continuous learning, and collaboration
• Provide coaching, career development, and regular performance feedback
• Establish team goals, operating rhythms, and execution processes that align with company priorities to deliver business impact

Analytics Engineering Strategy

• Define and execute the roadmap for analytics engineering, data modeling, semantic layers, and analytics infrastructure
• Build scalable dimensional models and curated datasets that enable trusted reporting and advanced analytics
• Drive adoption of analytics engineering best practices including testing, documentation, version control, CI/CD, and code review
• Own data quality initiatives, observability, lineage, and governance across the analytics ecosystem
• Continuously improve developer productivity and platform scalability

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with peers on the Data team and business stakeholders to understand evolving analytical needs and translate them into scalable data products
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to improve data pipelines, ingestion, orchestration, and warehouse performance
• Work alongside Product Analytics & Data Science to enable experimentation, machine learning, and advanced analytics
• Support Finance and Executive Leadership with trusted metrics and executive reporting
• Help establish company-wide metric definitions and ensure consistency across teams

Technical Leadership

• Set standards for data modeling, transformation, documentation, and testing
• Guide architectural decisions for the analytics stack and evaluate new technologies
• Ensure analytics infrastructure scales with rapid business growth
• Review technical designs and mentor engineers through complex implementation challenges
• Champion automation, reliability, and engineering best practices throughout the data organization
• Thinks strategically while remaining execution-oriented, making pragmatic trade offs between speed, scalability, and technical debt
• Builds trust through transparency and strong communication, delegating to and developing future technical leaders
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and helps others navigate change

Requirements

• 11+ years of experience in analytics engineering, business intelligence, data engineering, or related fields
• 3+ years managing high-performing technical teams, growing and developing people
• Deep expertise with SQL and modern analytics engineering practices
• Experience building analytics platforms using DBT, Snowflake, Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows and BI platforms
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic layers, and data warehousing concepts
• Experience defining data governance, testing, and data quality frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy across multiple organizations

Nice to Have

• Experience partnering with accounting/close the books procedures at a public company
• Experience managing audit processes and governance programs is a plus
• Experience at a high-growth SaaS or technology company
• Experience scaling analytics organizations through rapid company growth
• Familiarity with event-driven data architectures and product analytics
• Experience supporting experimentation platforms and machine learning initiatives
• Knowledge of metrics governance and executive KPI frameworks