Head of Analytical Engineering & Data Foundations

Asana; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 167,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health, wellness & fitness

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family benefits

Long-term retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager in Vancouver to lead a team focused on the data foundations that power decisions. You will own the Gold layer, canonical metrics, and semantic layer, ensuring trusted data for AI-powered self-serve through Claude and Databricks Genie.

You will sit at the intersection of Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science, driving collaboration across teams, defining data contracts, and optimizing data products with a focus on cost, quality, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading analytics/engineer teams (analytics engineers, data engineers, or analysts).
• Strong stakeholder management with senior cross-functional partners.
• Advanced SQL, data modeling and semantic layer design; dbt or equivalent, modern warehouses/lakehouses (Databricks preferred).
• Exposure to Unity Catalog, Looker/LookML, or reverse-ETL/activation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of Analytical Engineers; own hiring, coaching, performance, and career growth.
• Own the Gold layer and semantic-layer strategy across domains; curate data models, metrics, dashboards, and Genie spaces.
• Treat recurring insights as a product with owners, cadence, and SLA; build a catalog of trusted data products.
• Drive self-serve enablement; prioritize Gold tables, metric definitions, and metadata for Claude and Databricks Genie.
• Partner with Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, and business teams to define data contracts and SLAs.
• Manage prioritization, run-rate, and cost; make build-vs-buy trade-offs.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

Semantic layer design

dbt framework

Databricks

Tools

Looker/LookML

Unity Catalog

Reverse-ETL

Databricks Genie

Job description

Asana is seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager in Vancouver to lead a team focused on the data foundations that power decisions. You will own the Gold layer, canonical metrics, and semantic layer, ensuring trusted data for AI-powered self-serve through Claude and Databricks Genie.

You will sit at the intersection of Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science, driving collaboration across teams, defining data contracts, and optimizing data products with a focus on cost, quality, and