Analytics Engineer

Highlight; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative and rapidly growing startup is seeking an Analytics Engineer to empower business stakeholders with data-driven insights. This role involves developing scalable reporting systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance data fluency across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SQL, data modeling, and visualization tools, and will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a diverse team dedicated to creating impactful products for people and the planet, while enjoying a flexible work-from-home culture and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

Unlimited PTO

Flexible, remote WFH culture

Access to Hearst Tower facilities

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a business, product, or analytics engineering role at a SaaS company.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and Fivetran for data modeling and pipeline orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain key reports for quarterly board meetings and monthly reviews.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and integrity.

Skills

SQL

Looker

LookML

dbt

Fivetran

Snowflake

Postgres

GitHub

AWS

Python

Job description

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Who We Are

30,000 products are launched every year, and 90% of them fail. Highlight is the first and only end-to-end agile product testing platform, enabling the efficient collection of scaled product performance data. Brands like Nestle, P&G, and Estee Lauder rely on Highlight for competitive benchmarking, pre-launch formulation testing, in-market product renovation, and more, to optimize product success. Highlight, launched in 2021, has seen runaway growth and scale, having tested hundreds of products at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional analog methods, and becoming the dominant SaaS platform in the product testing space. Highlight is a woman-owned, minority-owned startup on a mission to create better products for people and the planet. We’re a diverse and collaborative team committed to fostering an environment of innovation, impact, and growth.

As a Senior Analyst / Analytics Engineer at Highlight, you will support and empower business stakeholders driving key outcomes and making strategic decisions through measurement and data-led insights. You’ll work closely with the executive team and cross-functional leaders in Finance, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Accounting.

Highlight has a small data and analytics team, so the person in this role must create scalable reporting and foster a data-fluent culture to support the company broadly. To thrive in this role, you must enjoy cross-functional and collaborative work, finding elegant, simple solutions distilled from complex inputs and perspectives.

Reporting & Visualization

• Develop and maintain key reports used for quarterly board meetings and monthly business reviews using Looker and LookML
• Create and manage data models in dbt to ensure reliable and scalable data pipelines
• Integrate and analyze CRM data from HubSpot to support Finance, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Accounting reporting needs
  
  
  

Data Engineering & Management

• Work with Snowflake and Postgres databases to gather, process, and analyze large datasets
• Utilize ETL tools like Fivetran to integrate data from various sources, including HubSpot, into the data warehouse
• Manage and optimize data flows between HubSpot and other systems to ensure data integrity and availability
  
  
  

Analytics & Insights

• Generate actionable insights for special projects and initiatives, supporting cross-functional teams in Finance, Product, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Accounting
• Proactively identify data needs related to CRM and other key business areas and implement solutions to enhance reporting capabilities
  
  
  

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Finance, Product, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Accounting to ensure data accuracy and integrity
• Present findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders in a clear, concise manner
• Empower the rest of the company to become more data-fluent through training and support, particularly in leveraging HubSpot data for reporting
  
  
  

About You

• 3+ years in a business, product, or analytics engineering role at a SaaS company
• Expert in SQL, with experience using Snowflake and Postgres
• Proficient in Looker and LookML (1+ years)
• Hands-on experience with dbt and Fivetran for data modeling and pipeline orchestration
• Familiar with integrating HubSpot CRM data into analytics workflows
• Comfortable using GitHub for version control and familiar with AWS services
  
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Brings hands-on experience across our tech stack: Snowflake, Postgres, AWS, Looker, dbt, Fivetran, GitHub, HubSpot, SQL, LookML, and Python
• Highly detail-oriented, with a strong focus on accuracy and data integrity
• Thrives in fast-paced, agile environments and adapts quickly to change
• A clear and confident communicator who is able to distill technical topics for diverse audiences
• A proactive self-starter who takes initiative and collaborates well across teams
  
  
  

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% of employee premiums covered
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible, remote WFH culture
• Access to the iconic Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to ever be in person)
• Based on previous experience and skillset, the starting salary range for this position: $116,000 - $145,000 annually
  
  
  

You don’t need to meet every qualification listed to apply—we value potential, curiosity, and diverse perspectives. At Highlight, we believe that innovation thrives when different experiences and ideas come together. We’re committed to building an inclusive team where individuals of all backgrounds - including but not limited to - race, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, disability, veteran status, and more—feel empowered to contribute and grow.

If you’re a critical thinker who’s not afraid to challenge assumptions, we’d love to hear from you. We’re a passionate, supportive team that puts Humans First, cares about each other, and yes—we take our tacos seriously.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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