Senior Analytics Engineer

Job Description

About Us:

We believe teachers have one of the most vital jobs in the world, and we’re here to support them. What began as a word-of-mouth marketplace where teachers could buy and sell educational resources is now a teacher-powered digital learning platform. Our community of 7M+ educators relies on us for engaging, accessible, classroom-ready materials—and we rely on our team members to continue developing solutions that improve the lives of teachers, students, and, ultimately, the state of education itself.

About the Team:

The Analytics team at TPT blends quantitative data and generalist knowledge gained from close partnerships with product managers and functional team leads (e.g., growth marketing manager) to drive decision making, understand TPT's business and products, produce solutions, surface opportunities, and develop the data culture at TPT. Between running org-wide data trainings, collaborating with product, marketing, and sales teams, supporting senior leadership and our board of directors, and contributing to cross-functional exploratory work with the design, data science, and content teams, the Analytics team has unique exposure to the full org and a high level of leadership visibility. You'll work through the full analytics stack, from building models on top of raw data in our database to performing ad hoc and exploratory analyses to delivering compelling data stories that influence decision making.

Role:

Analytics Engineers build the data foundation for reporting, analysis and experimentation. We are looking for someone with expertise in metric development, data modeling & SQL. Using these and other tools, you will transform data from data warehouse tables into critical data artifacts that power impactful analytic use cases (e.g. metrics, dashboards) and empower our downstream data consumers. As an Analytics Engineer, you will work collaboratively with Data and Engineering teams, as well as business teams including Product, Marketing, and Finance, to achieve highly impactful outcomes.

Data can transform how a company operates; high data quality and tooling is the biggest lever to achieving that transformation. You will make that happen at TPT and help us democratize data.

Responsibilities:

• Understand data needs by interfacing with fellow data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and business partners
• Architect, build, and launch efficient, scalable, & reliable new data models using sound software engineering principles
• Design, define, and implement metrics and dimensions to enable analysis and reporting for all levels of the organization
• Become a data expert in your business domain and own data quality
• Build and improve data tooling in partnership with other data and platform teams
• Design and develop dashboards to enable self-serve data consumption
• Train Data Analysts in data modeling best practices to help them contribute efficiently to the existing and new data models, as needed

Qualifications:

• Passion for high data quality, scaling data, and analytics work
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience as an Analytics Engineer, BI Engineer, Data Analyst or similar
• Strong skills in SQL, and business intelligence tools
• Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling
• Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments
• Detail oriented and excited to learn new skills and tools

Extra Credit:

• Hands-on experience with data modeling tools, such as dbt
• Python, Looker, and Airflow skills preferred
• An eye for design when it comes to dashboards and visualization tools

Compensation & Benefits:

TPT offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of life, inside and outside of work:

Base salary range: 123,000-147,000 USD annually.

• In addition to cash compensation, all TPTers are eligible to participate in TPT’s equity plan to receive management incentive units (MIUs).
• The final job level and compensation will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, years of relevant experience, skills, qualifications, certifications, geographic location, and other business considerations.

At TPT, benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Two of our core company values are “We Learn and Grow Together” and “We Enjoy the Journey.” We’ve committed to these values and to our employees through investing in added benefits and perks:

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
• 401k plan with company matching
• Free Telemedicine Membership - 24/7 access to trusted medical advisors
• Generous PTO and Wellness Days
• 5 Week “Recharge Leave” after 5 Years, to refresh and celebrate the impact you’ve had at TPT
• Generous Parental Leave (for new parents) for time to adjust to parenthood, plus additional six weeks for the birth parent
• ‘Employee Resource Groups’ (ERGs) to promote employee inclusivity and belonging
• Engineering Learning Fridays (ELF), to provide a space each week for Engineering teams to collaborate and learn from each other
• ‘Professional Development’ Stipend, to support the professional growth of employees (including - but not limited to - subscriptions, books, lectures, etc.)
• Annual Company Events (Camp TPT, Field Day, Hackathons, Holiday Party, Summer Picnic, Classroom Visits, etc.)
• Subscriptions: We cover employee subscriptions to services like Headspace and GrubHub+

Here at TPT we value Diversity & Inclusion and encourage people to bring their most authentic selves to work. We cultivate an environment where people are recognized and celebrated for their individuality.

Any TPT applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the interview process should contact the TPT People Ops Team ([email protected]) to make the need for an accommodation known.

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