Head of Analytical Engineering & Data Products

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

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health, wellness & fitness

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager in Vancouver to lead a team responsible for data foundations, including the Gold layer, canonical metrics, certified dashboards, and semantic layers that underpin AI-powered self-serve.

You will operate at the intersection of Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science, ensuring business stakeholders trust the data in your domains and can answer questions without routing to your team.

Qualifications

• Led analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics teams with a focus on data products.
• Strong background in data modeling, semantic layers, and trusted metrics.
• Experience shipping governed data products and data contracts.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into data roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of Analytical Engineers and set data-quality standards.
• Own the Gold layer and semantic-layer strategy across domains and dashboards.
• Treat insights as products with owners, cadences, and SLAs.
• Enable self-serve with trusted metadata and AI-ready data products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to contract data SLAs at boundary levels.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

Semantic layer design

dbt

Databricks

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Unity Catalog

Looker/LookML

reverse-ETL/activation

Salesforce

Marketo

Gainsight

Job description

Asana is seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager in Vancouver to lead a team responsible for data foundations, including the Gold layer, canonical metrics, certified dashboards, and semantic layers that underpin AI-powered self-serve.

You will operate at the intersection of Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science, ensuring business stakeholders trust the data in your domains and can answer questions without routing to your team.