[Hiring] Senior Data Analyst @Vacation HR

Role Description

Awayday's Data & Analytics function is growing quickly, and this role is one of two domain-owning Senior Analyst seats built to scale with it: an owner who embeds with the business, runs a domain end to end, and holds the shared standard at the same time. The conformed core and semantic layer stay owned centrally by the function lead, so this role's models and metrics stay consistent with every other domain as the team and the data estate both grow.

The Senior Data Analyst owns a business domain spanning Awayday's Operations, HR, Marketing, and Business Development, from the models at its foundation through to the reporting and analysis the business depends on. It is a deliberately broad mandate. You will:

• Build production-grade models against Awayday's conformed core and extend them into the semantic layer.
• Develop bespoke dashboards that sit atop the models.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis stakeholders need.
• Help define the metrics that the departments within your domain rely on to make decisions day to day.

This role blends deep analytical rigor with genuine ownership. You will:

• Define what a metric means in partnership with the business.
• Build and extend the models behind it.
• Reconcile it to the source.
• Stand behind it with stakeholders, whether that work takes shape as a data model, a dashboard, or a one-off analysis.

The ideal candidate is a proactive, results-oriented senior analyst, someone who pairs command of SQL and semantic modeling with sound data judgment and the communication skills to partner closely with the business.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analysis, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of an analytics area.
• Strong SQL and hands-on experience building models in a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred) with a semantic modeling or transformation framework.
• Experience building reporting in a modern BI tool such as Domo, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• A track record of translating business requirements into governed metrics and standing behind the numbers with stakeholders.
• Ownership of data quality and reconciliation for an area, and comfort directing others' work.
• Powerful oral and written communication skills to present findings to non-technical stakeholders and to distill the needs of our business teams.
• Practical, hands-on experience applying AI tools to real work, including LLM-assisted workflows.
• Openness to an evolving BI and semantic-layer stack, including evaluating tools beyond our current set as the platform matures.

Requirements

• Experience with a semantic or metrics layer and transformation tooling (dbt, MetricFlow, SQLMesh, or comparable).
• Subject-matter depth in Operations, HR, Marketing, or Business Development that you've supported as an analyst.
• Hospitality or vacation-rental domain experience.
• Familiarity with a CRM, marketing, or HRIS data source.

Key Attributes

• Strategic thinker with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to numbers that reconcile.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team, and to translate complex concepts into clear insight.
• Eager to learn and adapt in a fast-paced, acquisitive environment.
• An innate sense of curiosity and desire to help others.