[Hiring] Senior Analytics Engineer @BookNook

Role Description

This role will own that work end to end, evolving our data platform and driving data-informed decisions across BookNook to keep us at the forefront of high-impact tutoring.

As BookNook’s Senior Analytics Engineer, you’ll own our data platform and the reporting built on it, delivering the state, district, and partner reporting our customers depend on. This is a hands-on technical role. You’ll administer our Snowflake environment, write and maintain the Python automations that power our reporting, and decide how our data is structured and managed. Your first year centers on the platform, state data feeds, and recurring client reporting. From there, you’ll lay the groundwork for longitudinal, year-over-year research on student outcomes and scalable operational reporting for executive leadership. You’ll be accountable not just for building our reporting, but for making sure people across BookNook actually use it and that it keeps getting better.

This is a senior Individual Contributor (IC) role, and you’ll be the dedicated owner of BookNook’s data function. You’ll report to the VP of Product Strategy and partner closely with engineering, security and IT, implementations, tutor operations, and executive leadership. As our data needs grow, you’ll help shape what the data function becomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a similar role, including time as the primary owner of a data platform, ideally at a small or growing company.
• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience administering and building in Snowflake, including access control, cost management, and performance.
• Experience writing and maintaining Python scripts that run on a schedule to pull, transform, and deliver data, like automated reports, exports, and data feeds to partners.
• Advanced experience building reports and dashboards in a BI tool such as Tableau, Power BI, Astrato, or similar.
• The curiosity to learn our business model, our market, and how we work with districts, states, and partners well enough to know what our data can and can’t tell us, and to find a defensible answer when the exact one doesn’t exist.
• A working understanding of FERPA and related student privacy obligations, and a clear point of view on protecting data about minors.
• Comfort making decisions about how our data is modeled, stored, secured, and moved, prioritizing your own work, and saying no when a request doesn’t fit.
• Ability to explain technical concepts, findings, and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences, and to build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners, including district IT staff and state data teams.

Requirements

• Own BookNook’s Snowflake environment and account, including cost and capacity management, data modeling, and the pipelines that turn raw data into reporting.
• Own data projects from the first question through delivery and upkeep, whether that’s a new state data feed, an automation, or a research dataset.
• Make sure our company data privacy and PII policies are applied correctly across Snowflake and our other reporting tools and processes.
• Be the bridge between what people across BookNook ask for and what our data can actually answer.
• Maintain and extend the automation engines, scheduled tasks, and one-click exports that support our customer-facing teams.
• Build strong working relationships with district admin and IT teams and with state data teams.
• Partner with engineering and implementations to design and refine processes for customer onboarding and ongoing reporting.
• Build and maintain the foundations for outcomes research, including our assessment results data and tutor efficacy reporting.
• Provide executive leadership with the operational data they need and help scale dashboarding across the business.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: For this role, the salary range is $130K to $160K. Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.
• Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like in the continental US.
• Health insurance: We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for all our team members.
• Time to recharge: We offer flexible PTO, 11 paid holidays, and one company-wide week off.
• 401(k): With 3% company match.
• Home office setup: Get a laptop + $130 monthly stipend for home expenses.
• Employee Recognition: We have built a culture based upon recognizing our coworkers’ value based achievements.