Director, Analytics Engineering — AI-Driven Data Foundations

Scribd

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage
Parental leave (12 weeks)
401k matching
Tuition reimbursement
Wellness stipend
Mental health resources
Scribd subscription
Vacation days

Job summary

Scribd is seeking a Director of Analytics Engineering to scale data foundations for an AI-native platform. You will build and lead a high-performing team, establish an operating model, and align analytics initiatives with company priorities across product, technology, content, and business.

You will drive data modeling, governance, and semantic layers, enable reliable AI and analytics tooling, and partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into scalable data products while growing talent

Qualifications

  • Must lead cross-functional data initiatives from strategy through production adoption.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with executives.
  • Experience designing data quality, observability, governance, and lineage.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams.
  • Strong judgment balancing immediate needs with long-term data product investments.
  • Deep experience with canonical data models and semantic layers.
  • Advanced SQL and modern data stack tools.
  • Experience with data security, access control, and data retention.
  • Experience leading on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Strong partner to product and engineering leadership.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership
Excellent communication
Data quality governance
Canonical data models
Semantic layers
Advanced SQL
Python
Incident response
Team development
Strategic judgment

Education

10+ years in analytics engineering or related field
5+ years leading technical teams

Tools

Looker
Databricks
AWS
Airbyte
Fivetran

Job description

Scribd is seeking a Director of Analytics Engineering to scale data foundations for an AI-native platform. You will build and lead a high-performing team, establish an operating model, and align analytics initiatives with company priorities across product, technology, content, and business.

You will drive data modeling, governance, and semantic layers, enable reliable AI and analytics tooling, and partner with senior leaders to translate strategy into scalable data products while growing talent

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