Analytics Engineer, Freshpaint

• An ideal candidate for our Analytics Engineer position will bring a mix of technical mastery, business acumen, and collaborative spirit
• 5+ years of experience working in business intelligence, analytics engineering, data engineering or a similar role
• 2+ years of data modeling experience in dbt and building analytics-ready datasets that scale
• Expert-level SQL skills; you’ve worked across multiple product areas to wrangle complex datasets
• Proven experience introducing a data governance framework, ensuring clarity and consistency of metrics
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, making data insights understandable to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid business acumen, with the ability to link data models directly to business strategy, product growth, and market context
• An iterative mentality; you know when “close enough” is sufficient for business impact, while safeguarding against harmful inaccuracies
• This role thrives in ambiguity and requires proactive ownership
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and contribute broadly, especially in a small but growing data team

Desirable

• We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer to join Freshpaint’s Product Data team and play a pivotal role in scaling our data platform, improving engineering capacity, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the company
• This role reports directly into Product and will work closely with Engineering, Customer Success, and Go-to-Market teams
• As an Analytics Engineer, you’ll help build and optimize the data foundation that powers our product strategy and customer growth
• You will ensure that Freshpaint’s data is reliable, accessible, and actionable - enabling teams across the company to make faster, smarter decisions
• Your work will directly impact customer trust, reduce ad hoc burdens on engineers, and accelerate product-led growth opportunities
• Define and implement key product north star metrics and supporting dashboards
• Build, model, and maintain analytics-ready datasets (primarily in dbt) to support product, engineering, and customer-facing teams
• Establish data governance practices that make data definitions and usage clear to stakeholders
• Partner with engineers to design instrumentation for new product features and ensure reliable event data collection
• Develop anomaly detection tools and repeatable querying frameworks to build customer trust in Freshpaint’s product data
• Translate complex datasets into simple, actionable insights for cross-functional teams, enabling strategic decision-making
• Expand Freshpaint’s analytics warehouse with new data sources and scalable pipelines
• Collaborate with Customer Success to identify customer journeys, risks, and expansion signals through data