What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Analytics Engineering position at Harnham?
DIRECTOR OF ANALYTICS ENGINEERING
Remote (U.S.)
Up to $235,000 Base Bonus Benefits
The Opportunity
We're partnering with a rapidly growing, technology-driven organization to hire a Director of Analytics who will lead analytics strategy, analytics engineering, and customer-facing data products.
This is not a traditional BI leadership role.
We're looking for an engineering-minded analytics leader who has grown from a background in software engineering, data engineering, or analytics engineering and still enjoys being close to architecture, data modeling, platform strategy, and technical decision-making.
You'll lead a talented team while helping shape the future of the company's analytics, reporting, AI, and customer-facing data product strategy.
What Makes This Role Unique
- Own both internal analytics and customer-facing analytics products
- Lead a highly visible analytics organization with strong executive sponsorship
- Drive modernization across analytics architecture, self-service analytics, and AI-powered insights
- Influence product, engineering, and data strategy at the leadership level
- Opportunity to help define the future of analytics and AI within the organization
What You'll Be Doing
- Own the analytics vision, roadmap, and long-term strategy
- Lead Analytics Engineering, Reporting, and Client Analytics teams
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, AI, and Executive Leadership
- Drive adoption of scalable analytics architecture and engineering best practices
- Define and govern semantic layers, business metrics, and self-service analytics capabilities
- Scale customer-facing analytics products and embedded reporting experiences
- Guide AI-enabled analytics initiatives, conversational analytics, and modern decision-support products
- Mentor and develop a high-performing analytics organization
What We're Looking For
Required Background
- 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or Analytics Engineering
- 5 years leading analytics, analytics engineering, or data engineering teams
- Strong experience owning analytics strategy and delivery in SaaS or B2B environments
- Proven success building and scaling analytics teams and data products
Technical Requirements
- Strong expertise with Snowflake architecture, optimization, governance, and data modeling
- Hands-on knowledge of Looker, including semantic layers, metric governance, LookML, and self-service analytics
- Deep SQL expertise and strong understanding of modern analytics engineering principles
- Experience with dimensional modeling, semantic modeling, dbt, and enterprise data architecture
- Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers, architects, and executive stakeholders
Preferred Experience
- Customer-facing analytics products, embedded analytics, or external reporting platforms
- AI-powered analytics, conversational analytics, LLMs, or GenAI initiatives
- Modern cloud data ecosystems including Snowflake, dbt, and cloud-native analytics platforms
- Experience supporting Product, Revenue, Customer Success, and Executive stakeholders
Why Join
- Lead a highly visible analytics function
- Drive analytics modernization and AI initiatives
- Own customer-facing and internal analytics products
- Partner directly with executive leadership
- Join a team investing heavily in analytics, data products, and AI
- Strong growth trajectory with long-term leadership opportunities
If you're an engineering-first analytics leader who loves building modern analytics platforms, scaling teams, and driving business impact through Snowflake, Looker, and data products, we'd love to connect.
Salary : $200,000 - $235,000