About Datavations
Datavations is a leading New York-based data and AI software specializing in the $2.3 trillion dollar building materials industry. Datavations gives building materials and home improvement manufacturers real-time, store-level visibility into pricing, assortment, and inventory across major retailers, including Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Menards. Manufacturers use this data to make sharper decisions about pricing, distribution, and how they show up on the shelf.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Analytics Engineer, you will:
- Manage client relationships and provide technical support to maintain excellence and drive new product development
- Attain a holistic understanding of the entire technology from data aggregation to product delivery
- Develop and scale the technology from ‘data pipelining’ to ‘innovation’, to ensure accuracy of our data, as measured against client feedback
- Develop new product lines such as local pricing, ecommerce intelligence, and supply chain analysis to drive ROI for clients
- Leverage Data Visualization and UI/UX knowledge to increase customer adoption and ease of use
- Collaborate with our data science, engineering, and sales teams
- Adopt a self-starter mentality, and inspire other team members to do the same
- Commit to rigorous documentation of coding efforts and train incoming employees
- Lead a team of data scientists and data analysts to deliver timely and accurate innovations to solve client needs
Technical skills
- Outstanding expertise and hands on experience in SQL and familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse). Clickhouse is a major plus.
- Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining dimensional data models using dbt
- Project management tools (e.g. Jira)
- Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Retool)
- Understanding of time-series statistical methods for outlier detection (Prophet, ARIMA, Tukeys Fences)
Experience
- Project management, leading 2+ developers
- Building end-to-end data products
- Driving actionable insights from alternative data sources
- Retail/e-commerce, market research, startup, or analytical experience
- Working with retail or consumer data
- Scaling BI infrastructure to 10Tb+ data ingestion
- Hacker mentality
Preferred Location: NY
Additional Locations: Chicago, Dallas, Cincinnati, Minneapolis
Why Join Datavations
- Impact at Scale: Influence a $2.3 trillion industry by shaping how data science accelerates ROI for major manufacturers.
- Autonomy & Growth: Enjoy the freedom to experiment with new technologies and see your ideas realized in production.
- Collaborative Culture: Work alongside a supportive team that values positivity, proactive ownership, and continuous learning.
- Professional Development: Work with Terraform, OpenTelemetry, GenAI coding tools, and modern
Our values
- Customer Obsession: We are integrated in the industry with a customer-first obsession.
- Proactive Ownership: We have agency for our actions and embody an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Bias for Action: We maintain momentum with a can-do attitude; we value progress over perfection.
- Eager to Grow: We stay curious and hungry to learn, viewing every failure with humility as an opportunity to grow.
- Foster Collaboration: We work across boundaries with quiet competence, welcoming diverse perspectives and offering help unselfishly.
Compensation
The average range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000 depending on experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities. This range reflects our current national expectations for qualified candidates. Exceptional candidates based in our NYC office may be considered for a higher range. Total compensation may also include equity, performance bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package.
We’re committed to paying competitively and equitably, and we regularly review our compensation structures to ensure they align with the market and support our values
Skills Required
- Outstanding expertise and hands-on experience in SQL
- Familiarity with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or ClickHouse
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining dimensional data models using dbt
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Excel, Power BI, or Retool
- Understanding of time-series statistical methods for outlier detection, including Prophet, ARIMA, or Tukey's Fences
- Project management experience leading two or more developers
- Experience building end-to-end data products
- Experience driving actionable insights from alternative data sources
- Experience in retail, ecommerce, market research, startup, or analytical environments
- Experience working with retail or consumer data
- Experience scaling BI infrastructure to 10TB or more of data ingestion
- ClickHouse experience
- Preferred location in New York
What We Do
Insights-Driven Analytics for Smarter Retail Decisions within the Home Improvement industry. Datavations delivers market intelligence built exclusively for the home improvement and building materials industry. Our proprietary data and insights-driven analytics help manufacturers respond faster to retail shifts, uncover growth opportunities, and make smarter decisions at scale. We partner with business intelligence, sales, supply chain, pricing, inventory, distribution, and marketing teams to provide timely visibility into competitive activity across major retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards with plans to expand into additional industry retailers in the near future. Whether it is tracking assortment changes, identifying pricing trends, or spotting inventory risks, Datavations equips you with the actionable insights needed to grow market share and revenue — before your competitors do. Our platform includes a suite of purpose-built tools: * Assortment Optimizer: Identify assortment gaps and opportunities across key retail accounts * Inventory Optimizer: Uncover inventory risks and opportunities to improve in-stock performance and on-shelf availability. * Pricing Optimizer: Monitor pricing and promotional trends to inform smarter pricing strategies. * Market Watch: Stay on top of category-level and competitive shifts with timely, easy-to-digest market insights. At Datavations, we turn complex retail data into clear, prescriptive actions — helping manufacturers build stronger retail partnerships and outperform the competition.
