Director, Analytics Engineering
Leads the analytics engineering organization and sets strategy for Webflow’s enterprise data architecture, semantic layer, governance, and AI-native data systems. Requires 10+ years of data and analytics engineering experience, strong modern data stack expertise, and demonstrated team leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Develop and own a long-term strategic vision for enterprise data architecture, aligning data models, integration patterns, governance, and AI-native systems design with business priorities and platform growth.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Analytics Engineers building a scalable, reliable, and well-documented data foundation.
- Design and operationalize a unified semantic layer with canonical datasets, modeling standards, lineage graphs, query corpus, and business context.
- Define and enforce standards for data modeling, metadata management, data governance, data quality, lineage, and access control.
- Build and maintain a skills repository for analytics agents, including validation frameworks for accurate and reliable data-informed decisions.
- Represent Analytics Engineering in strategic, cross-functional discussions and apply data lifecycle expertise and AI-native architecture to enable data-informed decision-making.
- Partner with analytics teams to understand business needs, define trusted metrics, and improve data systems and usability.
- Implement high-quality data models, testing frameworks, dashboards, and documentation standards.
- Drive adoption of data best practices across teams and communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in data and analytics engineering.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, reliable data models and infrastructure in modern data stack environments.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, data modeling, ETL/ELT, dbt, Snowflake, and Tableau.
- Demonstrated strategic leadership experience managing and developing high-performing analytics engineering teams.
- Experience setting technical strategy, guiding complex decisions in data architecture and governance, and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, with a proactive approach to applying them at work.
Compensation
- United States base salary ranges, in USD:
- Zone A: $284,000–$355,000
- Zone B: $267,000–$334,000
- Zone C: $249,500–$312,000
- Eligible for Webflow’s company-wide bonus program.
Benefits
- Equity in the company for permanent employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents.
- Paid parental leave and family-planning, menopause, and midlife-transition support.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Mental health resources, therapy, and coaching.
- 401(k) with 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year in the U.S., with global retirement savings support.
- Monthly work and wellness stipends.
- Annual WIN bonus program for eligible full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.
Skills
SQL, Python, Data Modeling, Etl/Elt, dbt, Snowflake, Tableau, Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Access Control, Semantic Layer, Cloud Data Warehouses, Ai Architecture
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