Lead Analytics Engineer

Have you ever had that green-light feeling? When you hit every green light and the day just feels like magic. CLEAR's mission is to create frictionless experiences where every day has that feeling. With more than 30 million passionate members and hundreds of partners around the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or right on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you - unlocking easier, more secure, and more seamless experiences - making them all feel like magic.

As CLEAR continues to scale, we’re deepening our investment in the data ecosystem that powers our decision-making. We’re looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to own the presentation layer of our data stack. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role for someone who blends exquisite data modeling craft, deep familiarity with tools like dbt and Looker, a knowledge of the state of the art, and a passion for designing data structures that enable intuitive self-service. 

You’ll define the semantic and analytical layers that drive clarity across the business, transforming complex data into clear, trusted metrics and models that everyone at CLEAR can rely on.

What You'll Do:

• Own and evolve the presentation and semantic layers: design, build, and optimize data models that serve as the foundation for Analytics at CLEAR. Develop metrics that drive a consistent, opinionated view of business performance across Finance, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams.
• Partner with data engineering teams to define the transformation logic (via dbt or similar frameworks) that connects raw data to consumable business views, optimize pipelines to improve query performance, and ensure models align with best practices.
• Own a roadmap for enabling AI-powered analytics driving improved data documentation and a path for exposing our semantic layer to AI models. 
• Improve self-service rates by building intuitive data structures, reusable views, and clear metric definitions that empower teams to answer their own questions.
• Mentor analysts and analytics engineers, guiding them in data modeling best practices, BI design, and stakeholder engagement.

What You Bring:

• 7 years of experience working in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data engineering roles within a modern cloud data warehouse environment. Today we use Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and Looker.
• Expert-level SQL: you can structure models for clarity, reuse, and performance at scale. 
• Deep experience with BI tools including semantic layer design, metric standardization, and the enablement of AI-driven analytics.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling and data warehousing principles. You are always thinking about performance and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with business impact designing models that are as intuitive for stakeholders as they are efficient under the hood.
• Track record of driving BI and self-service, creating environments where data users can confidently explore and analyze on their own.
• Strong communication and influence skills, able to partner effectively across technical and business domains to align on data strategy and definitions.
• Proactive ownership and curiosity, always seeking opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale how data is modeled and delivered.

• High-impact: You’ll build the analytics foundations that will guide decision-making across CLEAR.
• Craft and influence: This role blends technical ownership with the opportunity to shape how data is understood company-wide.
• Mission-driven culture: You’ll help build experiences that make life simpler and more secure for millions.
• Autonomy: You’ll own and lead initiatives end-to-end, mentor others, and establish best practices that scale with the company.
• Culture that moves: We are a team that values curiosity, iteration, direct feedback, and risk taking.
• Great benefits & growth: Competitive compensation, liquid equity, catered lunches, and good vibes.

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. 

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $160,000-$190,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units.

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