Director, Analytics Engineering
About The Position
Webflow is seeking a Director, Analytics Engineering to shape the company's data infrastructure, modeling, and analytics capabilities. This role involves designing scalable data solutions, mentoring and hiring team members, and ensuring high-quality data availability for analytics and decision-making. The position bridges data engineering and insights, enabling data-driven strategies across the organization. The successful candidate will join a collaborative team with a modern data stack and opportunities to build new data analytics frameworks and establish best practices. Responsibilities include transforming data to improve analysis flexibility and repeatability, partnering on metric definitions and governance, and helping teams understand user experience through data. The role aims to enhance current processes, promote a shared data language, and develop Webflow's data maturity. Webflow is looking for an empathetic, humble, curious, and collaborative individual excited to strengthen foundational data capabilities and provide creative solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in data and analytics engineering, with deep expertise building and maintaining scalable, reliable data models and infrastructure in modern data stack environments.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and cloud warehouses (particularly dbt, Snowflake, and Tableau).
- Have a track record of implementing high-quality data models, testing frameworks, dashboards, and documentation standards that enable trust and reusability.
Nice To Haves
- Possess demonstrated strategic leadership experience managing and developing high-performing analytics engineering teams.
- Are confident in setting vision for both team growth and technical strategy, and you know how to guide others through complex decisions in data architecture and governance.
- Communicate clearly and distill technical topics for non-technical audiences.
- Drive adoption of data best practices across teams and work seamlessly with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions in fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environments.
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own a long-term strategic vision for Webflow's enterprise data architecture - aligning data models, integration patterns, governance & AI-native systems design with business priorities and platform growth.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Analytics Engineers focused on building a scalable, reliable, and well-documented data foundation while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Design and operationalize a unified semantic layer with canonical datasets, enforced modeling standards, lineage graphs, query corpus, and business context that powers self-serve analytics at scale, conversational data access, and advanced analytics with maintained governance and trustworthiness.
- Define and enforce comprehensive standards for data modeling, metadata management, data governance, data quality, lineage, and access control.
- Build and maintain a skills repository for analytics agents, including validation frameworks to ensure data-informed decisions remain accurate and reliable over time.
- Represent Analytics Engineering in strategic, cross-functional discussions, bringing systems thinking, deep data lifecycle expertise, and a focus on AI-native architecture to unlock insights and drive data-informed decision-making.
- Partner with other analytics teams to understand business needs, define trusted metrics, and continuously improve data systems and usability.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build (equity/RSUs)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents
- Inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions
- Flexible vacation
- Paid holidays
- Sabbatical program
- Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching
- 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S.
- Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses
- Annual WIN bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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