Backlight’s data function is seeking an energetic manager to continue growing a data-driven culture and transform data & analytics into a center of excellence for the company. Our Data & Analytics team is responsible for warehousing, transforming, and reporting on a range of areas including financial modeling, product analytics, and internal data (such as Salesforce, Hubspot, Zendesk, and other critical business systems). The ideal candidate will manage a small team as a player-coach, contributing engineering & analyst work while managing the more junior members of the team.
We're open to applications from both Canada & US.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise a team of data engineers and analysts, transparently prioritizing their work to serve the needs of stakeholders
- Partner with executive leadership and business stakeholders to understand their data needs and deliver reporting which will support their strategic objectives
- Identify and advocate for strategic initiatives where data can supplement the business’s goals
- Act as the primary administrator of our data infrastructure, including our data warehouse (BigQuery), ingest pipelines (Google Functions), transformations (Dataform), reporting (Looker) and other supporting systems
- Create and maintain stakeholder-facing reports and the underlying data pipelines to support them
- Develop data models to answer mission-critical questions related to financial reporting & projection and product utilization
- Set and enforce data governance policies to keep our data clean
- Partner with Compliance to ensure our data and retention policies are in line with the latest global regulations
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years in a hands-on data role such as Business Analyst, Data Engineer, or Data Scientist, preferably in a subscription-based business
- 5+ years SQL & Python
- 3+ years developing ETLs and managing data systems at scale
- Based within 2 hours of Eastern time zone
- Expert understanding of data warehousing technologies such as BigQuery or Snowflake
- Demonstrated experience building performant reporting in Looker
- Ability to coach and grow more junior analysts & data engineers
Preferred Qualifications:
- Has managed and mentored a data team
- Experience administrating warehouses in BigQuery with Dataform
- Familiarity with data structures in Salesforce and working with them to build custom reports in an external tool such as Looker
- Proven ability to work remotely with international, cross-cultural teams
- Experience working in the video streaming software space
What We Do
Backlight is a global media technology company that is dramatically improving every stage of the video and entertainment content lifecycle—from creation through monetization—with its award-winning, cloud-native SaaS products. Video-forward organizations partner with Backlight to solve their mission-critical business and operational challenges. Backlight’s product lines—iconik, cineSync, ftrack, celtx, Gem, Wildmoka, and Zype—provide secure and efficient media management, narrative design, production tracking, creative collaboration, OTT, monetization and hyper-distribution. Backlight launched in 2021 and is backed by $200M in funding from growth-equity partner PSG.
For more information visit backlight.co.
