About Brilliant
We are a female-founded, bootstrapped and profitable company on a mission to provide the best corporate gifting experience in the world! From the curation and production of memorable branded merchandise to the distribution of custom products, our team works together to bring brands to life. Think: newsworthy press kits, welcome gifts for new hires, merch sets to promote a product launch, or simply giveaways that people love.
We help companies create personalized experiences—campaigns, new-hire kits, storefronts, event swag—through a unified tech platform, global fulfillment (180+ countries, 6 warehouses), and hands-on creative collaboration brilliantmade.com.
Why This Role Matters
Brilliant is looking for a hands-on, experienced Data Analyst to join our profitable, bootstrapped, and fast-growing team. We deliver the best corporate gifting experiences in the world through white-glove service, product expertise, in-house fulfillment, and a proprietary technology platform.
This is not a role where you’ll just churn out reports — we need someone who can dig in, figure things out, and build from the ground up. You’ll be the person everyone turns to for insights, reporting, and dashboards, and you’ll help connect the dots between data and action. If you thrive working independently, love rolling up your sleeves, and have the curiosity to chase down answers, you’ll feel right at home here.
Key Responsibilities
- Get into the data: Use SQL, BI tools, Python, and spreadsheets to analyze, interpret, and surface insights that move the business forward.
- Own dashboards: Build, maintain, and improve company-wide reporting systems (Metabase, dbt, Looker, etc.).
- Make complexity simple: Partner with engineers to decode complex data structures and turn them into clear, usable reporting.
- Be the go-to analyst: Work directly with leaders across teams to understand their questions and deliver analysis they can act on.
- Build for scale: Create self-serve tools so anyone in the company can pull what they need without waiting on you.
- Tell the story: Share insights in ways that make data meaningful and help drive smarter decisions.
- Fix what’s broken: Spot issues with accuracy, usability, or process and make improvements without waiting to be asked.
What You Bring
- 4+ years of experience in a data analyst or business analyst role.
- Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large, messy datasets.
- Expert spreadsheet chops (Excel/Google Sheets) — you know how to automate, model, and make them sing.
- Experience owning BI tools (Metabase, Tableau, Looker, or similar).
- Previous exposure to businesses with physical goods, fulfillment, or warehouse data.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Data Science, Business, Economics, etc.) or equivalent experience.
Who You Are
- A self-starter who doesn’t need hand-holding — you see problems, dig in, and figure them out.
- Comfortable being a team of one but able to collaborate well across teams.
- Practical and resourceful — you don’t just find data, you make it useful.
- Highly skilled with spreadsheets and loves teaching others and building clever workarounds.
- Skilled at juggling multiple requests, keeping projects moving, and knowing how to prioritize.
- A natural storyteller with data who can make insights click for leaders and teams.
- Excited to roll up your sleeves at a high-growth, bootstrapped company where every contribution has impact.
Compensation
$90k - $120k annual base salary
Our Recruitment Process
If you're someone who thrives on the blend of technical problem-solving with creativity and client-satisfaction driven outcomes—let’s talk. Successful candidates for this role can expect:
- People Team Interview
- Technical Exercise
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Team Interview
- Cross Functional Team Interview
Why Join Brilliant
Brilliant Perks & Benefits: We’re pleased to offer our teams Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits in addition to our perks like flexible PTO, paid company holidays, and work from home setup stipend for new hires!
Impact at scale: Power automations that drive thousands of personalized gifting experiences annually
Cutting-edge tech stack: Blend APIs, front-end systems, fulfillment workflows, and automation tools
Hands-on collaboration: Work with sales, product, success, and fulfillment teams in a dynamic environment
Global footprint: Support clients across 180+ countries and touch the full giftee journey
Growth & innovation: Contribute to developing new platform capabilities and workflow possibilities
Top Skills
What We Do
From lights, music, climate, security, and doorbells to whatever comes next, Brilliant makes interacting with all of your smart devices simple by building controls that are easy for everyone to access and use right in the walls of your home.
Our first product, the Brilliant Smart Home Control replaces any existing light switch to give you touch and voice control over smart home technology, including Sonos, Nest, Ring, Phillips Hue, and many others. Alexa is built in for voice control and there is a personalizable high-resolution display for touch control. Want to call the kids down for dinner? There is even a camera with a privacy shutter for room-to-room video chat.
Brilliant has received many awards for smart home products in 2018, including Best Smart Home Product (IHS), Best Home Automation (CTA, CEPro), Best IoT Consumer Hardware (IoT Innovator), Outstanding Innovation (CES), and more. Brilliant is available for purchase on www.brilliant.tech
Brilliant was founded by Aaron Emigh, Steven Stanek, and Jeremy Hiatt, all of whom are experienced technology entrepreneurs from the mobile industry. It all started when Aaron began remodeling his home and installed some smart home products. They were great as individual devices, but Aaron soon realized that the more he installed, the worse the experience got. Navigating between multiple apps just to adjust the lights, lock the door, or set the thermostat was complicated. To add to the frustration, controlling the home exclusively through his mobile phone felt unnatural and awkward.
Seeing an opportunity to elevate the smart home experience, Aaron, Steven, and Jeremy teamed up. As they saw it, controlling our home environments should be as simple as flipping a switch. There’s a light switch in every room, and it’s already the home control that we use most often, so it made sense to replace light switches with smart controls that make it easy and natural for you to interact directly with your home. Brilliant is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Mateo, CA. Our notable investors include August Capital, SV Tech Ventures, The Box Group, and Miramar Ventures.
