Analytics Engineer, Axios
$130-155k
News media company
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News media company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-155k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- 2-5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
- Expertise in BI and visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, etc.)
- Familiarity with modern data stack (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent)
- Experience designing and modeling curated datasets, semantic layers or metric stores, and data marts that drive consistent and reliable decisions
- Understanding of medallion architecture and data governance best practices
- Solid grasp of versioning, testing, and CI/CD practices for data pipelines
- Strong data storytelling and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
- Comfort working in a hub-and-spoke model, balancing central standards with domain-specific consulting
What the job involves
- Own the Gold layer of the medallion architecture: define, version, and maintain business metrics and semantic models
- Build and maintain executive dashboards and visualizations that communicate key insights effectively
- Define and enforce best practices for data visualization, storytelling, and stakeholder adoption
- Build and maintain data marts and semantic layers that serve multiple domains across Axios
- Review and certify dashboards for accuracy, consistency, and adherence to standards
- Collaborate with data engineering to ensure Silver layer tables meet business needs
- Implement data quality tests, documentation, and lineage tracking to ensure trust in analytics outputs
- Serve as a bridge to data science, ensuring feature stores and model outputs are well-documented and reusable
- Contribute to the hub-and-spoke model: rotate through responsibilities such as intake, quality assurance, and participation in the analytics hub, while serving as a strategic partner to stakeholders, helping them shape the right questions and identify the decisions their data should inform
- What success looks like:
- Business users rely on analytics engineers for both accurate data models and clear, actionable dashboards
- Stakeholders see insights delivered through compelling visualizations that drive decisions
- Data engineers know what to build in Silver because requirements are clearly defined upstream
- Data scientists can discover and reuse well-documented features and model inputs
- Leadership sees fewer instances of unreliable or inconsistent dashboards and more decisions influenced by consistent, well-visualized data
- You help establish analytics engineering as the cornerstone of the data-to-decisions lifecycle at Axios
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 that other news outlets were enduring 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. In 2025, it was announced that OpenAI would be funding Axios's expansion into new US territories, suggesting even more growth on the horizon.
Steph
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
(Co-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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