Director, Data Engineering and Analytics

Summary

Join Howl, a creator-first social commerce platform, as their Director of Data Engineering and Analytics. Lead and scale the data team, infrastructure, and engineering efforts. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data strategy, ensure data quality, and optimize platform performance. As an engineering leader, you will directly impact the customer experience. This role requires extensive experience in data engineering, building data pipelines, and leading teams. Howl offers a competitive compensation package, including comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, WFH stipend, retirement planning, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Experience designing and building data engineering pipelines, cloud solutions, ETLs, databases, visualizations and analytical platforms
• Experience leading, hiring and growing a team of data engineers, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts that own mission critical product and business systems
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, embedded analytics, business intelligence and cloud data infrastructure
• High level of proficiency with SQL, Python and related libraries / frameworks
• Ability to build high quality complex solutions and work collaboratively with cross functional teams in a fully remote work environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills, capable of both hands-on technical work and guiding teams through influence and strategic direction, including engaging with C-level stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Provide thought-leadership, deliver solutions to strategic problems and support the product roadmap
• Manage a data engineering, business intelligence, and business analyst team
• Design and maintain scalable, reliable data architectures including data lakes, warehouses and pipelines
• Ensure clean, accurate, and timely data availability to support product features, embedded analytics, organizational decision-making and analytics
• Design and implement data pipelines and transformation workflows that are optimized for flexibility and data quality, leveraging best-in-class tools for transformation, observability, and testing

Benefits

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 80% coverage for dependents; with FSA and HSA compatibility
• 100% coverage of Teledoc services & One Medical memberships for employees and dependents
• Flexible PTO and 20 days paid Holidays
• WFH stipend
• Retirement planning- 401k through Empower
• Talkspace membership
• Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for all new parents
• The base salary range for this role is $225,000 - $250,000
• At Howl, we offer a competitive compensation package inclusive of base salary, incentive pay and stock options. Incentive awards are allocated based on individual performance. Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role