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Senior Analytics Engineer

Location: Fully Remote (United States)
Company Stage of Funding: Growth-stage food-tech company
Office Type: Remote
Salary: $151,000 - $166,000 USD1. Company Description

We're representing a mission-driven food-tech company building products that help people live healthier lives while improving the sustainability of the food system. Through a subscription-based service, the company delivers ready-to-eat, plant-forward meals, snacks, and juices directly to customers, making it easier to adopt healthier, more sustainable eating habits.Founded in 2013, the company has grown into a scaled, data-driven organization where analytics plays a central role in decision-making across marketing, product, operations, finance, and customer experience. This is an opportunity to help shape the next phase of growth by building world-class data infrastructure and culture.2. What You Will Do

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will take a leadership role in designing, scaling, and governing the company's modern data stack. You'll combine hands-on technical ownership with strategic partnership across the business, enabling reliable, high-quality analytics and data-informed decision-making at every level.You will:

• Own the architecture and governance of the end-to-end data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and best practices.
• Lead the design and implementation of core data models and ETL/ELT pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and experimentation.
• Drive alignment across teams on data definitions, metrics, and source-of-truth models.
• Act as a thought partner to leaders across marketing, product, engineering, operations, and finance.
• Mentor and develop analytics engineers and analysts, raising technical standards and data fluency across the organization.
• Optimize data warehouse performance, workflows, and query efficiency.
• Champion best-in-class tooling and practices, including dbt, Airflow, version control, testing, and documentation.
• Enable self-serve analytics by building scalable data products, dashboards, and exploration tools for business stakeholders.

3. Ideal Background

The ideal candidate is a senior analytics or data professional who enjoys owning complex data systems and influencing how organizations use data.

• 5-8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data architecture roles.
• Proven experience building and scaling cloud-based data ecosystems using modern tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with strong data modeling and transformation skills.
• Experience defining and operationalizing data governance, data quality frameworks, and performance tuning practices.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to collaborate across functions and seniority levels.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data challenges into clear business insights.
• Ownership-driven mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and learning.

4. Preferred

• Experience supporting self-serve analytics and experimentation frameworks.
• Background working in consumer, subscription, or operationally complex businesses.
• Strong alignment with mission-driven or sustainability-focused organizations.

5. Compensation and Benefits

• Salary: $151,000 - $166,000 USD base, depending on experience.
• Work Model: Fully remote within the United States.
• Impact: Play a central role in shaping data strategy, infrastructure, and culture at a growing company.
• Growth: High visibility role with broad cross-functional exposure and influence on company strategy.
• Comprehensive health plans: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance plans and more.
• Unlimited vacation: Our flexible time off policy lets you reset and recharge as needed - we trust your judgement
• Gender-equitable parental leave: Full-time employees get 10+ weeks fully paid parental leave.
• First Fridays: Take the first Friday of every month off! This amounts to more than 2 weeks of enforced time off per year.

Culture & Values:
The company is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and believes the best work happens when people feel represented and supported. Hiring decisions are based on qualifications and business needs without regard to protected characteristics.

Equal Opportunity:
The employer is an equal opportunity organization. Discrimination and harassment of any kind are prohibited.