Forward Deployed Analytics Engineer

Improvado; New York (NY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Medical and dental benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off and US holidays

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

Improvado, a leading AI-powered marketing data platform, is hiring a data systems engineer who will own 3–6 accounts end-to-end from discovery calls to production dashboards.

You’ll design data models with SQL and dbt, implement Python pipelines on Temporal, and ship dashboards in Looker/Power BI/Tableau for diverse clients. You’ll collaborate across marketing directors and data engineers to drive decisions and ensure reliable deliveries.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping data work for external teams (agencies, consultancies, or in-house teams).
• SQL is your primary language; Python is a strong secondary.
• Experience with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor in production workflows.

Responsibilities

• Run weekly customer calls and translate feedback into scoped builds with timelines.
• Design and maintain data models using SQL/dbt on BigQuery, Snowflake, or ClickHouse.
• Write Python pipelines (Temporal) for edge cases: SFTP feeds, validation, joins, audits.
• Deliver dashboards in Looker, Power BI, or Tableau chosen by the customer.
• QA your delivery and report platform gaps with reproducible cases to Product.

Skills

SQL

Python

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

dbt

Airflow

Temporal

BigQuery

Snowflake

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Improvado is an AI-powered marketing data platform built for mid-market and enterprise teams. We help companies automate complex marketing data workflows, unify data at scale, and surface insights through BI and AI. Brands like ASUS, Docker, Activision, and H&R Block rely on us to simplify analytics and improve marketing performance. We're a fast-growing Series A startup backed by $34M in funding and driven by a team that moves fast, stays curious, and cares about high-quality execution.

About the role

You join a customer's marketing data problem and stay until it runs in production. One month it's a pharma brand that needs validated files delivered to its agency every night. The next it's a DTC brand that wants attribution it can defend, or an agency running forty client dashboards on one model. You own three to six accounts end to end: the discovery calls, the data model, the pipeline, the dashboard, the handoff. Claude Code is your pair, not a checkbox.

What you'll do

• Run weekly customer calls and turn what you hear into a scoped build with dates.
• Design and maintain the models: SQL and dbt on ClickHouse, BigQuery or Snowflake, kept correct as sources change.
• Write Python pipelines on Temporal when the platform doesn't cover the case: SFTP feeds, validation rules, custom joins, audit emails.
• Ship dashboards in Looker, Power BI or Tableau, whichever the customer already runs.
• QA your own delivery before the customer sees it. Send platform gaps back to Product with a reproducible case.

You’ll fit if

• You have 3+ years shipping data work for people outside your own team: an agency, a consultancy, professional services, or an in-house analytics team with internal customers.
• SQL is your first language and Python a comfortable second.
• You’ve used Claude Code, Codex or Cursor for real work and can say where they go wrong.
• You can hold a call with a marketing director and a data engineer in the same hour and both leave with a decision.
• English C1 or better.

Helps

• Ad-platform, GA4 or CRM data.
• dbt in production.
• MMM or attribution.
• Temporal or Airflow.

What we offer

• Remote-first environment
• Medical and dental benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off and US holidays
• Professional development reimbursement