Analytics Engineering Lead – Data Strategy & Impact

Nourish; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nourish, a fast-growing digital health company in New York, is seeking a Manager, Analytics Engineering to lead a team that builds reliable data foundations and delivers insights across operations, marketing, and product.

You will own analytics end-to-end, mentor engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and partner with leadership to answer critical business questions. The role requires 5+ years in analytics and 2+ years leading teams, with strong SQL and dbt skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years owning analytics end to end at a fast-paced, high-growth company.
• 2+ years of leadership experience leading not only your team day to day, but also setting and driving the technical vision to support business growth.
• Are an unstoppable problem-solver taking complex and highly ambiguous asks and turning them into structured and thoughtful roadmaps to be rolled out to a lean team.
• Deep domain expertise in analytics engineering: You write clean, performant SQL, have hands-on experience with tools like dbt and Fivetran, and have a strong grasp of the fundamentals of data modeling, ETLs, and infrastructure.
• Are curious, strategic, and outcome-oriented: You proactively shape the right questions, translate complex data into clear, actionable insights, and balance speed with depth to drive clear, high-impact decisions across the business
• Are a builder who thrives on ownership and impact: You take pride in designing clean, scalable systems from scratch, and are excited to take end-to-end ownership - filling gaps, creating structure, and becoming the go-to person others rely on for clarity.
• Communicate complex ideas with clarity: You distill deep analysis into crisp, actionable takeaways, whether writing a Notion doc or presenting to leadership, and you earn trust across cross-functional teams by speaking the language of both operations and engineering
• Are motivated by impact and mission: You believe in the power of food as medicine to transform healthcare and are excited to improve lives at scale by contributing to Nourish’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Analytics Engineers: lead planning and prioritization; provide technical and analytical guidance; hold the bar on execution; help hire new team members.
• Define and deliver the analytics roadmap across data modeling, business intelligence, and AI-enabled analytics. Establish technical standards that help the team scale.
• Deliver high-impact insights: lead analyses of ambiguous problems; proactively identify opportunities; partner with leadership on solving complex and impactful analytics questions.
• Build and maintain a robust data foundation: Partner with Engineering to validate and optimize pipelines, ensuring our data infrastructure is accurate, scalable, and supports a trusted single source of truth.
• Champion a data-first culture: Guide teams to interpret and act on data, write clear documentation, and lead by example in driving evidence-based decisions.

Skills

Analytics Engineering

SQL

dbt

Fivetran

Data Modeling

ETL

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

dbt

Fivetran

Job description

Nourish, a fast-growing digital health company in New York, is seeking a Manager, Analytics Engineering to lead a team that builds reliable data foundations and delivers insights across operations, marketing, and product.

You will own analytics end-to-end, mentor engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and partner with leadership to answer critical business questions. The role requires 5+ years in analytics and 2+ years leading teams, with strong SQL and dbt skills.