Analytics Engineering Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. As an Analytics Engineering Manager, you will lead a dynamic team, working closely with various business units to translate complex business requirements into actionable data solutions. You will play a critical role in communicating analytics insights clearly and with impact, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. Collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Managers, and Engineering teams will be essential to align analytics solutions seamlessly with business objectives and technical capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of analytics engineers to help Paddle build high-quality, scalable data models.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with business units to understand their needs, translate them into actionable work items, prioritize work, align definitions, and set up demos and training sessions.
• Data Pipeline Development: Develop and maintain robust data pipelines, ensuring the accuracy, availability, and reliability of data using our data stack (Snowflake, DBT, Fivetran).
• Best Practices: Champion best practices in analytics engineering, data modeling, and data governance within the team.
• Process Improvement: Drive the continuous improvement of data workflows, automation, and tooling to enhance the team's efficiency and effectiveness.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with data platform and analytics teams to build cohesive solutions.
• Data Culture: Promote a data-driven culture across the company, supporting stakeholders in leveraging analytics to make informed decisions.

Requirements

• Passion for developing people with at least 1 year of management experience with several direct reports.
• Strong expertise with modern analytics engineering stack, including DBT, Snowflake, Fivetran, and similar tools.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience designing and implementing scalable data models.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business language.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to addressing complex data challenges.
• Familiarity with data governance practices, data cataloging, and data quality.
• Enjoy getting into the details and understanding business processes and commercial implications.
• Proactive and enjoy taking ownership, while being self-aware and always open to improving and pushing on how you can get better.

About Paddle

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 5000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

Company Culture & Values

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognize and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.

We’re a diverse, growing group of Paddlers who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative, and respectful culture. Let’s grow together.

Application Instructions

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self.