Leads the unified Data and Analytics Engineering organization, overseeing people management, architecture, technical roadmaps, data production, modeling, and metrics. The role requires hands-on infrastructure and SQL modeling expertise, strong architectural judgment, and experience translating business needs into data priorities.
171k – 245k/yr
Remote5+ YOEEngineering Management
About the role
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Data & Analytics Engineering, from ingestion and pipeline architecture through the modeling layer and the tables and metrics stakeholders rely on.
Directly manage and develop Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, including hiring, coaching, growth, and performance management.
Make and defend platform and architecture investment cases covering orchestration, warehouse cost, CI/CD, data access, and tooling.
Set and uphold standards for testing, monitoring, documentation, and code quality.
Serve as the escalation point for complex architectural and production issues.
Partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and other stakeholders to translate ambiguous data needs into a scoped, sequenced roadmap.
Communicate technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Represent team priorities, risks, and investment needs in cross-functional and leadership planning.
Requirements
Direct management experience for data engineers and/or analytics engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
Experience leading end-to-end data production, from platform through analytics marts.
Hands-on data infrastructure experience, including pipeline orchestration, warehousing, and platform reliability architecture.
Hands-on SQL-based modeling experience sufficient to evaluate modeling and metrics decisions.
Experience setting technical roadmaps and making investment cases to leadership.
Ability to evaluate and communicate architectural and modeling tradeoffs, such as freshness versus cost and scalability versus simplicity.
Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to define metrics and resolve conflicting data priorities.
Nice-to-haves
Experience managing both data engineering and analytics engineering functions.
Experience owning a BI or semantic-layer tool such as Looker or Tableau as a product.
Experience establishing cross-team data model standards.
Experience introducing AI-assisted tooling into engineering or analytics workflows.
Experience with marketplace, real estate, subscription, or performance marketing data models.
Compensation and Benefits
US total target compensation: $171,000–$208,000 in Zone 3, $187,000–$226,000 in Zone 2, or $202,000–$245,000 in Zone 1, including equity.
Base salary ranges: $150,000–$177,000 in Zone 3, $164,000–$192,000 in Zone 2, or $177,000–$208,000 in Zone 1.
Pre-IPO stock options and other financial compensation, where applicable.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums covered for employees and dependents.
Unlimited flexible time off, company holidays, recharge days, and a holiday break.
Home office, health and wellness, parental and family leave, fertility, and family-forming reimbursements or benefits.
401(k) plan.
Team events, mentorship, training, and career development opportunities.
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