Senior Manager of Data Platform & Analytics
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Description:
Before you read on, take a look around you. Everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times before reaching its destination. Global ecommerce sales are expected to total $5.5 trillion worldwide in 2022 and continue growing over the next few years. Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce.
Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.
How we’ll deliver success:
As a Senior Manager of Data Platforms & Analytics, you will lead our data infrastructure and analytics initiatives. This role requires a highly skilled and hands-on data professional with expertise in AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, navigating high levels of abstraction and ambiguity, while enabling self-serve analytics for business users.
Shipping & handling responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain a scalable and robust data platform utilizing AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker;
- Ensure data platform architecture aligns with industry best practices and emerging trends;
- Enable self-serve analytics capabilities for business users, empowering them with the tools and insights needed to make data-driven decisions;
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Looker;
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and business stakeholders, to understand data needs and deliver strategic solutions;
- Drive the data strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals;
- Implement data governance frameworks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security;
- Establish data quality metrics and monitoring processes to maintain high data integrity;
- Be hands-on with data architecture, modeling, and engineering to solve complex data challenges;
- Stay current with data trends and industry tools, continuously evaluating and integrating new technologies to enhance the data platform;
- Enable federated data products and data solutions development by various engineering teams by building the necessary framework, architecture, and data tools;
- Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation to drive the development of federated data products;
- Lead and mentor a team of data professionals, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation;
- Provide guidance and support to team members, enabling their growth and development.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
Proven experience (5+ years) in a senior data management role, preferably within a technology-driven company
Experience in enabling federated data products and data solutions development through building frameworks, architectures, and data tools
Expertise in AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker
Strong hands-on experience with data architecture, data modeling, and data engineering
Demonstrated ability to work with high levels of abstraction and ambiguity
Experience enabling self-serve analytics capabilities for business users
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders
Strong leadership and mentorship abilities, with a track record of developing high-performing teams
Our Compensation Shippolicy:
We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min $191k to a max $258k annual salary. Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.
Sail through the process:
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at accommodations@goshippo.com
Shippos in the wild:
Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.
For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.
About the job
Senior Manager of Data Platform & Analytics
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
Description:
Before you read on, take a look around you. Everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times before reaching its destination. Global ecommerce sales are expected to total $5.5 trillion worldwide in 2022 and continue growing over the next few years. Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce.
Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.
How we’ll deliver success:
As a Senior Manager of Data Platforms & Analytics, you will lead our data infrastructure and analytics initiatives. This role requires a highly skilled and hands-on data professional with expertise in AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, navigating high levels of abstraction and ambiguity, while enabling self-serve analytics for business users.
Shipping & handling responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain a scalable and robust data platform utilizing AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker;
- Ensure data platform architecture aligns with industry best practices and emerging trends;
- Enable self-serve analytics capabilities for business users, empowering them with the tools and insights needed to make data-driven decisions;
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Looker;
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and business stakeholders, to understand data needs and deliver strategic solutions;
- Drive the data strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals;
- Implement data governance frameworks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security;
- Establish data quality metrics and monitoring processes to maintain high data integrity;
- Be hands-on with data architecture, modeling, and engineering to solve complex data challenges;
- Stay current with data trends and industry tools, continuously evaluating and integrating new technologies to enhance the data platform;
- Enable federated data products and data solutions development by various engineering teams by building the necessary framework, architecture, and data tools;
- Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation to drive the development of federated data products;
- Lead and mentor a team of data professionals, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation;
- Provide guidance and support to team members, enabling their growth and development.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
Proven experience (5+ years) in a senior data management role, preferably within a technology-driven company
Experience in enabling federated data products and data solutions development through building frameworks, architectures, and data tools
Expertise in AWS Cloud, Postgres, Kafka, Databricks, and Looker
Strong hands-on experience with data architecture, data modeling, and data engineering
Demonstrated ability to work with high levels of abstraction and ambiguity
Experience enabling self-serve analytics capabilities for business users
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders
Strong leadership and mentorship abilities, with a track record of developing high-performing teams
Our Compensation Shippolicy:
We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min $191k to a max $258k annual salary. Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.
Sail through the process:
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at accommodations@goshippo.com
Shippos in the wild:
Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.
For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.