Senior Analytics Engineer (Finance & Operations)

Skylight

21h • $150,000 - $170,000 • Remote

About The Position

Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and The Wirecutter). Our latest product is Buddy, which just launched to rave reviews. Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks. We are expanding our Data team and are in need of a rigorous Senior Analytics Engineer to partner closely with our Finance and Operations teams. This role will own the Finance/Operations data layer, bring new data into our warehouse from systems like NetSuite, Ramp, and Pigment, and build the dashboards and metrics leadership relies on to run the business.

Requirements

• 5+ years in an analytics role with exposure to financial or operational data sets.
• Strong SQL skills and experience building reusable, well-structured data models in a cloud data warehouse environment, ideally Snowflake; experience with BI or semantic-layer tools such as Omni, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or Sigma.
• Experience validating outputs, reconciling discrepancies, documenting assumptions, and creating checks for critical metrics.
• Ability to understand business processes and translate them into data models, metrics, dashboards, and documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including gathering requirements, managing expectations, pushing back constructively, and communicating tradeoffs.
• Comfort working in an early-stage or evolving data environment where systems, pipelines, definitions, and ownership boundaries may still be forming.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with source-of-truth systems such as ERP (NetSuite), WMS, TMS (OSCA), or CPM (Pigment).
• Experience with wholesalers and EDI.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance, Operations, and the rest of the Data team to understand business processes and source-system workflows, define pipeline requirements, and identify data gaps and downstream reporting impacts.
• Own the Finance and Operations data layer and build trusted, reusable data models that support reporting, analysis, and decision-making.
• Design and document how data should flow between source systems such as NetSuite, Ramp, and Pigment into Snowflake and Omni.
• Create validation checks, reconciliation workflows, and exception reporting to improve trust in critical Finance/Ops data across source systems, Snowflake, and Omni.
• Define and govern key Finance/Operations metrics with business owners, including business logic, data grain, source of truth, ownership, refresh cadence, and known limitations.
• Create and maintain dashboards, from executive-level summaries to granular self-serve analytics, to communicate performance metrics and support root-cause analysis.
• Identify and execute opportunities to automate manual data flows, reporting processes, and reconciliation workflows.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Excluding November, December, and January)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed