Director of Analytics Engineering & BI Platform, Smartsheet
$223.8-261.3k
+ Eligible for a market competitive incentive opportunity
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Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
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Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$223.8-261.3k
+ Eligible for a market competitive incentive opportunity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
to empower anyone to drive meaningful change — for themselves, their businesses, and the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in modern analytics engineering with a strong command of financial and revenue analytics, and a passion for data quality and governance
- 10+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related technical discipline, with 5+ years of people management and a track record of developing senior ICs and leads
- Deep hands-on proficiency in SQL, Python, and dbt with strong experience on Databricks, familiarity with Snowflake
- Proven experience with Finance and Revenue analytics — Bookings, ARR, NDRR, Quote-to-Cash — and demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Finance and RevOps stakeholders
- Expert-level data modeling skills spanning Data Vault 2.0 (hub/satellite/link design), Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layer design for lakehouse environments), and Semantic Layer development (dbt Semantic Layer,) — with the ability to set modeling standards and make authoritative architectural decisions across all three paradigms
- Deep understanding of DataOps and data reliability practices, including CI/CD for data pipelines, automated testing frameworks (dbt tests), and orchestration governance (Airflow), layered data presentations
- Demonstrated ownership of data governance programs at scale — quality, lineage, cataloging, access management — including data contract design between producers and consumers
- Experience operating and managing data egress and reverse-ETL pipelines to CRM, marketing automation, and customer success platforms
- Experience leading cloud data platform migrations (Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable lakehouse architectures) and familiarity with AI/ML-adjacent data requirements including feature stores, embedding-ready models, and the infrastructure needs of LLM and agentic applications
- Strong program management instincts with the ability to navigate complex, cross-functional initiatives and translate technical complexity into clear narratives for executive and practitioner audiences alike
- Experience in a SaaS organization with familiarity with microservices-based product architectures, and a conviction that data modeling is software engineering — held to the same standards of testing, documentation, and deployment rigor
What the job involves
- The Business Intelligence team exists to unlock the power of data — providing trusted access, actionable insights, and the platforms that power data-driven decisions across the company. We are looking for a seasoned analytics engineering leader to drive the next chapter of our data platform, governance, and intelligence capabilities
- This role sits at the intersection of analytics engineering, finance data ownership, and platform strategy — partnering closely with Finance, RevOps, Product, and Engineering to ensure our data assets are trusted, discoverable, and AI-ready
- You will report to the VP of Data Science and Business Intelligence
- Lead analytics engineering strategy and execution, owning the design and evolution of core data models using modern practices — Data Vault, dimensional modeling, dbt on Snowflake — with a clear roadmap toward a Databricks lakehouse architecture
- Own the company-wide semantic layer and metrics store, ensuring Bookings, ARR, NDRR, and other critical business metrics have a single, version-controlled, trusted definition consumable by every downstream tool and AI agent
- Drive Finance Analytics, including ownership of Bookings, ARR, NDRR, segment and territory reporting, and month-end close pipelines, partnering closely with Finance and Revenue Operations
- Set the standard for data governance and data quality, including discoverability, lineage, access controls, and data contracts between upstream producers and downstream consumers — leveraging Atlan, Unity Catalog, and Monte Carlo
- Own data egress and reverse-ETL strategy, governing pipelines from the data warehouse to downstream platforms including Salesforce, Marketo, Gainsight, Outreach, Thoughtspot, Tableau, and Amplitude
- Shape our AI data strategy, ensuring data assets are structured, documented, and governed to serve as reliable foundations for AI agents, LLM-based analytics, and intelligent product features — while driving data-as-a-product principles and platform cost discipline
- Lead cross-functional strategic programs including Quote-to-Cash modernization, unified customer data modeling, and the Snowflake-to-Databricks migration, acting as a key decision-maker across multi-quarter initiatives
- Develop cross-team relationships across functional leadership and BI partners to ensure we are meeting existing analytics needs and are well-positioned to meet the needs of the future
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, managing vendor and partner relationships, and evolving team capabilities to meet the demands of a rapidly maturing data platform
Our take
With teams increasingly moving to remote work across many industries, companies have been reaching for tools to keep operations smooth and communications open. Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a cloud-based work management platform helping a vast range of companies, from small businesses to large enterprises, plan, track, and report on work.
Like other team collaboration software companies, such as Lucid and Atlassian, Smartsheet saw strong growth in the early 2020s and achieved 17% year-on-year revenue increases through 2025. If the company can maintain this success, it stands to make real gains in a global team collaboration market expected to be worth about $20 billion by 2028.
Smartsheet has embedded itself across various industries, with deep integrations with applications from the likes of Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, and Microsoft, making it the first work management sector Unicorn to reach $1 billion in recurring annual revenue in 2024. Thanks to its successes, it was bought by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4 billion in 2025 with an eye on further international scaling, leveraging the reach of its new parent companies.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2017
$60m
SERIES F
May 2014
$35m
SERIES E
Total funding: $127.5m
Company benefits
- Lucrative Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount)
- 401k Match to help you save for your future (50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay)
- Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
- Flexible Time Away Program, plus Incidental Sick Leave
- Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave
- Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
- Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to LinkedIn Learning online courses
- Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, primary care membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account
- Teleworking options from any registered location (role specific)
- HSA, 100% employer-paid premiums, or Buy-up medical/vision and dental coverage options for full-time employees
- Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with all offers
- US employees are automatically covered under Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans
- US employees receive 12 paid holidays per year
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Mark Mader
(President & CEO)Having studied at Dartmouth, Mark spent 2 years as a Greenwich Associates Research Associate before 10 years at Onyx Software. They then founded Smartsheet in 2005 as CEO.
Brent Frei
(Founder & Board Member)Brent worked at Motorola and Microsoft for 4 years before founding Onyx Software in 1994 and Smartsheet in 2005. They have been a Board Member since, alongside working as CEO of TerraClear.
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