Principal Data Architect, Webflow
$206.1-344.3k
Salary appliable to US and varies depending on location. For ON & BC, Canada: CAD266,400 - 391,500. Eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program and equity
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No-code web design and hosting platform
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No-code web design and hosting platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206.1-344.3k
Salary appliable to US and varies depending on location. For ON & BC, Canada: CAD266,400 - 391,500. Eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program and equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give creative designers the tools they need to create powerful and beautiful websites, all without having to code.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an empathetic, humble, curious and collaborative team member who is excited to strengthen our foundational data capabilities and provide creative solutions that maximize data utility at Webflow
- Have 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics engineering, including at least 3 years in a lead or principal architect role
Desirable
- Have a deep understanding of enterprise data modeling (conceptual, logical, & physical), semantic layers, and dimensional modeling practices
- Are proficient in data pipeline and modeling tools (e.g., SQL, Python, dbt) and modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake)
- Have hands-on experience with knowledge graphs, metadata layers, and lineage tracking tools
- Demonstrate a solid grasp of data governance, data catalogs, security, and compliance frameworks
- Bring strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to distill and communicate complex architecture concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Are energized by solving ambiguous and high-impact problems in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
- Are deeply systems-oriented, with an eye for long-term scalability and resiliency
- Stay curious and are open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Data Architect to design, evangelize, and lead the development of our enterprise data architecture. This strategic role will shape how data flows across Webflow, enabling scalable, secure, and governed access to high-quality data for analytics, decision-making, and AI/ML use cases
- You will partner closely with data and insights, product, engineering, business technology, finance, sales, marketing, and business stakeholders to ensure our data architecture is robust, extensible, and aligned with our long-term platform and business goals
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role with deep influence across multiple domains
- Reporting to the Director of Data & Analytics Engineering
- Develop and maintain a long-term vision for Webflow’s enterprise data architecture - aligning data models, integration patterns, and governance with business priorities and platform growth
- Design and implement a unified semantic layer and enterprise conceptual data model that supports self-serve analytics, operational reporting, chat with your data, and advanced data science
- Define standards for data modeling, metadata management, master data governance, data quality, lineage, and access control
- Build architectural patterns that support composable, modular, and reusable data products
- Lead architecture reviews for data modeling initiatives, ensuring consistency with enterprise patterns and standards
- Collaborate with the data platform, data science, business intelligence, and analytics engineering teams to evolve our modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, & Hex)
- Leverage AI fluency and literacy to advocate for and drive the adoption of AI/ML technologies across data systems and business use cases
- Serve as a thought partner and mentor to business intelligence engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, and data architects—raising the bar for technical design, documentation, and best practices
- In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we'll help you incorporate them into your role
Our take
No-code development systems allow users to create and publish the kind of output that was once only possible with the help of a team of developers. Webflow is one such platform that allows non-developers to create professional websites without knowing any code. It joins others such as Pantheon, Weebly, Squarespace, and Wix in a hotly-contested low-code development market. While competition is high, so too is demand, with low-code platforms accounting for more than 65% of application development activity in 2024.
The popularity of platforms such as Webflow is perhaps not surprising, as low-code development is usually cheaper for companies to implement and reduces time to market. Webflow has been used by over 3.5 million designers and teams to create sites for companies including enterprise brands such as Dell, Rakuten, UpWork, and Petal. It raised a large amount of funding in a Series C round in 2022. This is being used to further develop its platform, with a longer-term goal of pivoting to providing a no-code tool not only for websites, but software development as well.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Total funding: $334.9m
Company benefits
- 100% insurance coverage
- 401K and financial planning
- Paid time off
- Annual retreat and offsites
- 10% time - Take up to 4 hours per week to focus on building skills, working on projects, or learning new Webflow-related things outside of your daily to-do’s.
- Commuter benefits
- Vacation bonus
- Office setup budget
- Health and wellness stipend
- Remote work reimbursements
- Continued education coverage
- Choose your own adventure
- Webflow subscription discount
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Vlad Magdalin
(Co-founder & CEO)Having studied Computer Science at California Polytechnic, Vlad worked as a Web Associates Systems Engineer for 3 years before co-founding Chatterfox.com, where he spent 4 yeas. He left his Software Engineer position at Intuit in August 2012 to co-found Webflow the following month, and has been CEO since.
Sergie Magdalin
(Co-founder)Sergie spent 4 years as a freelance Graphic Designer before joining NameMuir Skate as a Web & UX Designer.
Bryant Chou
(Co-founder)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit and CTO at Vungle. He was also the founding CTO at Webflow.
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