Staff Analytics Engineer, Babylist
$158.9-233.6k
+ Equity & Bonus
SQL
AWS
Python
Kafka
Snowflake
dbt
Expert level
Remote in US
Online universal baby registry
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Online universal baby registry
501-1000 employees
B2CMarketplaceConsumer GoodseCommerce
Be an early applicant
$158.9-233.6k
+ Equity & Bonus
SQL
AWS
Python
Kafka
Snowflake
dbt
Expert level
Remote in US
501-1000 employees
B2CMarketplaceConsumer GoodseCommerce
Company mission
To help expecting parents get exactly what they need for the arrival of their new baby.
Role
Who you are
- You are a proactive, solution-oriented data leader who thrives on solving complex data challenges
- You excel at building scalable data solutions, mentoring others, and driving cross-functional collaboration
- You have a track record of influencing strategic decision-making and aligning technical solutions with long-term business priorities
- Most of all, you are passionate about leveraging data to create transformative business outcomes
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in analytics, data engineering, or analytics engineering with demonstrated increasing leadership responsibilities
- Deep proficiency in SQL, including architecting scalable transformations and frameworks to handle enterprise-scale datasets
- Advanced experience with dbt, including designing centralized metrics layers, custom macros, and reusable transformations to standardize data practices company-wide
- Extensive proficiency with Python, including designing reusable frameworks, advanced patterns (e.g., decorators, multithreading), and integrations for data workflows
- Proficiency in Sigma or similar data visualization tools, including the ability to create reusable templates and optimize dashboards
- Experience with cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and ETL/ELT pipelines
- Proven track record of aligning technical solutions with long-term strategic priorities and communicating technical vision to leadership audiences
- Ability to diagnose complex business challenges and design innovative, scalable solutions that address both short-term and long-term goals
- Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional collaboration, building alignment across diverse teams, and influencing organizational priorities
- Experience mentoring teams and leading initiatives to improve data practices, tooling, and collaboration across the organization
Desirable
- Experience with data cataloging and metadata management tools, such as Atlan, Alation, or similar platforms, to drive discoverability, community, and governance of data assets
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives that improve data quality and reliability, such as implementing data observability frameworks or designing automated data validation processes
- Experience driving cost optimization initiatives in cloud-based data platforms, including warehouse efficiency, query optimization, and storage strategy
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures and tools such as Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS for building scalable, real-time data pipelines
- Experience integrating and scaling third-party tools or platforms to enhance data workflows, such as automation tools, observability platforms, or advanced ETL/ELT solutions
What the job involves
- The Data Team at Babylist powers data-driven decision-making across every aspect of the company’s business
- As a product function, we focus on three core aspects of data: engineering, analysis, and data science
- We are seeking a Staff Analytics Engineer to take a leadership role in designing, building, and scaling our core data platform and data products
- This role is pivotal in driving company-wide data strategy and ensuring our data infrastructure supports impactful, scalable, and future-proof business outcomes
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable SQL transformations, frameworks, and governance practices to support data pipelines and models across the organization
- Drive thought leadership to define the team’s dbt strategy through innovations like centralized metric definitions, CI testing frameworks, and organization-wide alignment of data models
- Develop advanced dbt structures like custom macros and metrics layers to enhance flexibility and scalability
- Architect and standardize reusable data models to scale analytics across the company, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide goals and future scalability
- Define and scale development, quality, and governance standards for Sigma; leading the adoption of advanced features and workflows to maximize efficiency and cross-team alignment
- Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute on data strategies that align with broader company objectives
- Proactively identify and address systemic inefficiencies in workflows and processes, introducing scalable, sustainable improvements across teams
- Mentor and guide team members, junior engineers and data users to develop their skills in advanced techniques, tools, and best practices while fostering a collaborative culture
- Drive innovation in analytics and experimentation, identifying opportunities for advanced methodologies and creating frameworks to scale these efforts across the organization
Our take
Since its 2011 launch, Babylist has grown into one of the most highly rated baby registries in the US. The difference it offers is that it allows users to include products from any store in their registries. On top of this, the company’s model also focuses heavily on creating informational content, which allows it to generate ad revenue while building customer loyalty.
Originally scaled with fairly low venture funding, Babylist claims half of new parents in the US now use its services. This, given that the baby products industry is worth close to $90 billion, shows the immense growth of the company as well as speaking to the impact it has made in the space.
Babylist has seen strong funding in the past which fuelled projects such as the launch of virtual showrooms, and facilitated the company's expansion further into the market. The company acquired Expectful, a health and wellness tool, in 2023 with the long-term vision to combine the companies into a larger health and wellness media property, that can help people navigate all parts of parenthood from fertility to diapers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
Top investors
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- HAPPIER WEEKENDS – We work to live, not live to work. That means we generally don’t work nights or weekends, and we offer 10 paid holidays throughout the year, in addition to your paid time off.
- PAID TIME OFF THAT WORKS FOR YOU – Life is unpredictable. Use your time off for what you need, whether that’s a vacation, family event or a day to unplug.
- PARENTAL LEAVE – We offer a flexible, 12-week paid parental leave policy.
- FLEXIBLE BENEFITS – Choose from benefits that support your working style, whether that's remote, in the office or something in between.
- HEALTH & WELLNESS – Wellness benefits include 100% paid coverage for medical, vision and dental for full-time employees.
- BABYLIST STORE DISCOUNT – All full-time employees receive a generous Babylist Store discount.
Company values
- We Love Our Users: This is our superpower. We listen to our users relentlessly to earn their trust and find better and better ways to support them as they tackle this thing called parenthood.
- Eye on the Horizon: We are building a lasting business by focusing on the long term for our users. Day-to-day we focus on what's directly in front of us with an eye on what's ahead. We are prepared to go against what is popular or trendy at the moment in order to serve our longer-term goals. We keep one eye on the horizon with the right mix of data, intuition, and user understanding to validate our decisions.
- Always Be Learning: We approach things with a growth mindset as individuals and as a company. We believe high performance comes from curiosity and an eagerness to find ways to improve. We foster an environment where everyone can feel comfortable asking hard questions in order to learn. We are resilient.
- Intentionally Focused: In order to do hard things, we must work on the most important things first. We see the biggest impact when we simplify problems and solutions and pare back any distractions.
- Be Your Own CEO: As a remote company, we must approach our work with ownership and accountability. To have the impact we want to have, we need to excel at management, execution, and communication. We are excited and engaged with the work we do. We understand the broader context of our work and make decisions that support those efforts. We take responsibility and deliver.
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
Articles
Leadership
Natalie Gordon
(CEO)Former Software Engineer at Amazon. Initially founded Babylist as a side project and has since taken the company to a market leading status.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Babylist
- Babylist is committed to anti-racism and inclusivity. It’s their mission to create a supportive and inclusive community for parents of all kinds, and equally important to create a supportive and inclusive environment for Babylist employees.
- We educate employees about and give them the words to challenge microaggressions because language is a powerful indicator of belonging.
- We create a safe place for people to investigate their own blind spots and racism that come from growing up in a racist society.
- We commit to challenging our own biases and those of people around us.
- We construct our company programs and processes to screen and correct for bias and unintended impact on underrepresented groups.
- We use our reach and our resources to support those who are doing anti-racist work that benefits our users and communities.
- We commit to dismantling systemic racism in the ways that it creeps into corporate structures:
- We interview manager candidates for diversity, equity and inclusion aptitude so everyone has a manager who supports their sense of belonging. If the candidate doesn’t pass, they won’t be hired.
- We articulate our anti-racist stance in our onboarding program so it’s clear where we stand.
- We survey the team annually to make sure we understand inclusivity and belongingness at Babylist.
- We measure the efforts of our DEI programs so we know if they’re working and can set objective goals to fix them if they’re not.
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