Senior Analytics Engineer, Axios
$120-185k
News media company
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News media company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-185k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles
- Expert-level SQL and proficiency in transformation frameworks like dbt
- Deep experience with BI and visualization tools (Looker, Sigma, or similar)
- Skilled at architecting curated datasets, semantic layers, and metric stores for consistency and scalability
- Familiar with modern data stack technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of medallion architecture, data modeling, and data governance best practices
- Familiarity with version control, testing, and CI/CD practices for analytics pipelines
- Excellent communication and data storytelling skills—able to translate technical work into clear, strategic insights
- Proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive adoption of analytics frameworks
What the job involves
- As a Senior Analytics Engineer at Axios, you’ll combine engineering rigor, business context, and storytelling to transform complex data into clear, consistent, and actionable insights
- You’ll design, maintain, and evolve the curated layers of our data platform ensuring data is reliable, modeled for clarity, and accessible to everyone—from product partners to executives
- In partnership with data engineers, data scientists, and product managers, you’ll transform raw and complex source data into well-structured data products, certified dashboards, and compelling visualizations that underpin reporting, experimentation, and advanced analytics
- . You’ll also play a key role in developing a self-service analytics platform, ensuring that models and data structures empower teams across Axios to independently explore data, generate insights, and make confident, data-informed decisions
- Own the gold and silver layers of the medallion architecture: define, version, and maintain business metrics and semantic models and data glossaries
- Partner with data engineering to shape the silver layer, ensuring upstream data is complete, performant, and aligned with business needs
- Build and maintain executive dashboards and visualizations that communicate key insights effectively
- Define and enforce best practices for analytics modeling, data documentation, and visualization standards
- Design and maintain data marts, metric stores, and semantic layers that enable consistent reporting across teams
- Ensure dashboards and data models are accurate, documented, and certified for stakeholder trust
- Partner with data scientists and ML Ops to document and integrate model outputs into analytical workflows
- Lead initiatives to improve data quality, observability, governance, and glossary management across analytics workflows, ensuring strong, business-aligned definitions that prevent metric drift and maintain consistency over time
- Mentor mid-level analytics engineers, helping them strengthen technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Act as a trusted advisor to product, business, and editorial leaders, ensuring analytics aligns with company priorities and drives impact
- Ensure that analytics modeling and data structures are designed to power a self-service platform, enabling teams across Axios to explore reliable data, access well-defined metrics, and derive insights independently
- What success looks like:
- Business stakeholders rely on your models, dashboards, and semantic layers as trusted sources of truth
- Data across Axios is consistent, documented, and easily understood by teams
- Executive dashboards provide clear, actionable insights that guide company strategy
- Mid-level analytics engineers grow under your mentorship and adopt your best practices
- Data engineers and scientists use your frameworks and documentation as foundations for collaboration
- Leadership views analytics engineering as a strategic enabler of efficiency, clarity, and alignment across Axios
- You play a critical role in scaling the analytics practice—establishing modeling standards, mentoring peers, and ensuring that dashboards and metrics inspire confidence while enabling intuitive, self-service insights across the business
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions other news outlets were having to undergo to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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