Director, Analytics Engineering (AI)

Location: Hybrid work with occasional in-person attendance required. Primary residence must be in or near an approved city in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

Salary: $202,500–$268,000 annually in California; $191,500–$254,000 annually in the United States outside California; CAD 177,000–235,000 annually in Canada. The position is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global advances human understanding through hirify.global, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable.

What you will do

• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing Analytics Engineering team.
• Establish an operating model, team culture, career pathways, and distributed ownership.
• Guide technical decisions across data modeling, architecture, governance, quality, tooling, and developer experience.
• Build canonical datasets, shared metrics, semantic layers, and trusted production-quality data foundations.
• Lead cross-functional data initiatives from strategy through production adoption and measurable business impact.
• Apply AI-assisted development, analysis, agents, and automated workflows where they create clear value.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience building and scaling high-performing teams and turning individual contributors into cohesive strategic partners.
• Deep experience with governed canonical data models, semantic layers, data quality, observability, documentation, governance, access control, privacy, lineage, and evaluation systems.
• Advanced SQL and production experience with modern data platforms such as AWS, Databricks, Airbyte, Fivetran, or Looker.
• Excellent communication with technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior executives.

Nice to have

• Advanced Python.
• Experience with data cleanup, role-based access controls, and data retention policies.
• Experience building canonical data models and semantic layers for financial analysis.
• Experience leading on-call rotations, incident response, production issue resolution, and reliability improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work model balanced with intentional in-person collaboration.
• Health, dental, vision, mental health, and disability coverage.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals.
• Paid parental leave, family support, retirement matching, and employee equity.
• Learning and development programs, wellness and home office stipends, and access to AI tools.