Director of Analytics Engineering, Algolia
$210-250k
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Job no longer available
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$210-250k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 10 years of data-related work experience, 5+ years of management, and expert-level technical knowledge of data warehousing and data analysis in the modern data stack, including dbt and BI tools
- Requires the ability to understand complex software systems, read code (Python, SQL, and other languages), and interface with technical engineering teams
- Requires the ability to write SQL at an expert level, acting as a proxy for our analyst stakeholders, and providing feedback to the teams on technical requirements
- Requires the ability to become an expert in our user-facing tools (Hex, ThoughtSpot, Atlan), and to train others
- Responsibilities include eliciting stakeholder requirements with a strong understanding of underlying technology and design, and ensuring that both teams have strong, aligned roadmaps, and are building towards the long-term goals of Algolia
- Deep interest in people and mentoring. Capable of supervising employees ranging from junior roles to management. Likely 7 years or more of experience in management
- A management style based on empowerment, trust, and collaboration
- Substantial hands-on experience in Data Analytics, Analytics Engineering, or Data Engineering roles. Likely 10 years or more of experience in these and related areas
- A passion for data quality and systems and data design. A curiosity about the best ways for teams and systems to succeed and grow
- Fluency in translating between business questions and technical requirements. Experience with product management, including stakeholder management, synthesis of varying points of view into clear documents, and ROI estimation
- Proven track record of rolling out and establishing scalable data and analytics platforms (we use tools such as Redshift, dbt, ThoughtSpot, and more) with terabyte scale data
- Expertise with software development including web development, databases, programming best practices, and agile methodologies
- Comfortable guiding technical team discussions regarding software architecture and data warehouse design
- Ability to provide supportive review and feedback to team members’ proposals, technical designs, and code reviews in SQL and Python
- Strong awareness of the modern data stack and the current state of the data industry
What the job involves
- This role is responsible for functional area leadership and overseeing the day-to-day work activities of a department, division, or managing a product
- Leads and manages employees within a department or division. They have significant impact on the achievement of the Company's goals and objectives
- They interact with senior leadership, management-level employees and/our major clients. Interactions regularly involve skills such as negotiating, consulting, influencing, or advising. Typically reports to a Senior Vice President or Vice President
- Help the teams prioritize, plan, develop, and ship code that moves business-critical data between systems, and represents the entities and metrics that Algolia cares about
- Coach and mentor both managers and individual contributors so that they excel at their work and grow in their skills and careers
- Hire and onboard Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and managers, to build a diverse, inclusive and high-functioning team
- Be a culture advocate within the company, living by our core values
- Help the teams grow their processes, cultures, and technical capabilities
- Provide training, leadership and mentoring to data professionals across the company, to support data literacy and good data practices
- Help provide context to the teams, so that they have a consistent view of the business and business priorities
- Provide technical input, as needed, to ensure that the teams build sustainable, maintainable, well-designed systems that anticipate future needs
- Ensure that the teams prioritize work to ensure data reliability, quality, and governance
- Represent the data teams to executive leadership, providing visibility on data quality, and facilitating conversations across the company
Our take
While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.
To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
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