AI-Native Analytics Engineer — Self-Serve Analytics Leader

Scribd, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex

Comprehensive health coverage

Generous PTO & holidays

Parental leave

Retirement matching & equity

Learning & professional growth

Wellness & home office stipends

Product suite access

AI tools access

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is hiring Principal & Lead Analytics Engineers to scale data for an AI-native Scribd, Inc. environment.

You will shape technical foundations, modeling standards, and development practices across Analytics Engineering, guiding decisions with senior leadership while improving data quality and governance. You’ll lead as a senior contributor, aligning investments to company priorities, building canonical data products, and ensuring reliability, observability, and scalability across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, BI engineering or related field.
• Governed canonical data models and semantic layers with single authoritative definitions.
• Experience with data quality, observability, documentation, governance, access control, privacy, lineage, and evaluation systems.
• Ability to lead cross-functional data initiatives from strategy to production impact.
• Advanced SQL skills and production experience with AWS, Databricks, Airbyte, Fivetran, Looker or similar tools.
• Strong judgement balancing immediate needs with long-term reusable data products and platform health.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical foundations and standards for Analytics Engineering.
• Guide data modeling, architecture, governance, quality, and developer experience.
• Lead senior individual contributor efforts across teams to improve data reliability and insights.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership and translate requirements into production systems.

Skills

10+ years experience in analytics/data

Governed data models & semantic layers

Data quality, observability & lineage

Cross-functional data initiatives

Advanced SQL

AWS / Databricks / modern data stack

Leadership & stakeholder communication

Python (Advanced)

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Airbyte

Fivetran

Looker

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is hiring Principal & Lead Analytics Engineers to scale data for an AI-native Scribd, Inc. environment.

You will shape technical foundations, modeling standards, and development practices across Analytics Engineering, guiding decisions with senior leadership while improving data quality and governance. You’ll lead as a senior contributor, aligning investments to company priorities, building canonical data products, and ensuring reliability, observability, and scalability across