Analytics Engineering Advocate, Lightdash
£60-95k
0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
Open source alternative to Looker
Open for applications
Open source alternative to Looker
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£60-95k
0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
Enabling everyone to answer their own data questions.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a passion for helping teams win with data, we’re looking for our first Analytics Engineering Advocate to join the Lightdash team
- Experience with business intelligence and analytics engineering
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Comfortable with dbt, SQL, git, data visualization, and the command line
What the job involves
- Our users’ experience of Lightdash goes beyond our product features and includes every touchpoint and interaction they have with the community and team
- In this role, you’ll be the voice for our community and responsible for our users’ questions related to Lightdash, best practice in BI and analytics engineering
- Obsess over the success of our users: Our users’ wins are our wins. We want to keep building on our technical support that our community and customers know and love. You’ll provide in-depth, personalised answers and pair program with users to solve their analytics problems and pull in other Lightdash team members when needed
- Lightdash champion: You’ll be the go-to Lightdash pro at Lightdash and in the community. You’ll keep up with our latest features and know how to use them (you’ll be using Lightdash at Lightdash regularly!) and you’ll make sure to share this knowledge with the community. You’ll also represent the company at community events, conferences, and meet ups
- Teach and share: Create and deliver world class tutorials and demos for Lightdash as well as examples of best-practice for data analytics. These could be blog posts, video tutorials, or code examples
- Community strategy: Building and executing strategies to grow and engage the analyst community around Lightdash
- KPIs owned by the role (WIP):
- Community size and engagement
- Customer support response times and NPS
- Content published and hits
Application process
- A short introductory chat to see if we think we’re the right fit
- A technical interview (no trick questions!) that you’ll do with a member of the team
- A culture fit interview to see if your values and ways of working mesh well with ours
- Meeting with both of our founders, Hamzah and Oliver
- A final offer chat with Hamzah, our CEO.
Our take
Lightdash was founded with the goal to help customers analyse their data by proposing relevant tests and thresholds to track, allowing users to customise queries by adding their own metrics. The platform currently supports most major data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery, with the plan to keep broadening coverage.
Founders Hamzah Chaudhary and Oliver Laslett’s background as data scientists and software engineers gives them a significant advantage when developing a tool that aims to simplify the day-to-day for these types of employees. Lightdash tests the quality of the data directly from the customer’s data warehouse and reports any potential issue, allowing the client to visualise the results on a customised dashboard that requires no coding skills.
Crucially, Lightdash is open-source. That means it prioritises integrations by default unlike Looker which, being owned by Google, has resulted in decreased interoperability with systems outside of GCP. Series A funding awarded in 2024 will be used to roll out its AI Analyst product available on its cloud.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$11m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $19.5m
Company benefits
- Salary - We're competitive with compensation!
- Equity - We provide meaningful equity to all team members so you own a part of the company
- Remote-first culture - We’re fully remote from anywhere +/- 3 hours from UK time. Choose to work from wherever you want, whenever you want.
- Team meetups - We organise regular team meetups around the world (We’re aiming to do at least 4 per year!). It’s a time for everyone to get to know each other, have those strategy sessions that just work better in person and bond as a team
- Time off - We have unlimited vacation days per year. But, at the minimum, we require that you take the standard number of vacation days + public holidays (28 days). We believe that taking breaks is important for our team to be the most effective!
- Set up - As well as a shiny new Macbook Pro, we'll cover any equipment you need and your work from home setup too. Prefer working in a co-working space? Sure thing!
- Learning and development - Personal development budget for whatever helps you be your best
Company values
- We build in public | Our community helps us build a better Lightdash
- We believe in autonomy | Only the best ideas win here.
- We are remote-first | Our culture is built around this.
- We love open source! | We believe it will play a massive part in the future of data tools.
- We bias towards impact | We’d rather build something to 80% and get it in front of users so we can iterate fast!
- We have incredible support | From our community to top investors & angels including Y Combinator.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Hamzah Chaudhary
(CEO & Co-Founder)Software Engineer turned Product Manager. previously worked at Cytora as the director of Product Management. Also worked briefly at McKinsey and Deloitte.
Oliver Laslett
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously Data Scientist and Machine Learning Scientist at Cytora. PhD in computational physics
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