Senior Analytics Engineer 1

The Farmer's Dog

The Farmer's Dog

Data Science
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Friday, August 2, 2024

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog is the fastest growing pet health service company in the US, and was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care – a fresh proposition in an industry riddled with manipulative and misleading marketing. We’re starting by radically improving the $100 billion pet food market, replacing bulk bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends healthy, freshly-made dog food, balanced by top veterinary nutritionists, directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, honest, and delightful experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic and forward-thinking culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered hundreds of millions of meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to our customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

About The Growth Team

  • We have five principles that describe our approach:
  • Holistic thinking: We know that nothing exists in a silo.
  • Disciplined prioritization: We need to bring perspective, clarity and guidance to the team.
  • Data-driven decision-making: We use first principles and are skeptical. We establish context.
  • Proactive collaboration: We build vast common knowledge and encourage synchronous, streamlined work from our colleagues and diversity in problem-solving.
  • Execute for impact: We are responsible for the growth of the business and the perception of our brand. We are resilient, accountable and relentless.

More About our Culture at The Farmer’s Dog

We have big ambitions, our mission is to give dog lovers true peace of mind by helping them do the best for their dogs – this will require us to completely reimagine how we care for our dogs and drive meaningful shifts in an industry that is desperate for change. We don’t believe this is possible by implementing “best practices” or operating how the rest of the industry operates.

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have the necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms to solve problems holistically.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets customers up for success and drives long-term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively.

We execute for impact: We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. as an Analytics Engineer you may have an idea for how we can optimize our customer acquisition mix.

One of the unique things about not subscribing to the traditional and classic definitions of roles is that we expect you to have an active hand in shaping this role. You should come in focused on seeking context, and be ready to form and share a vision, feedback, and ideas. You will be an immediate leader on the Analytics Engineering team.

Where You'll Come In

The Farmer’s Dog is looking for an accomplished Analytics Engineer to join our growing team. Analytics Engineering is the cornerstone of reliable, accessible, and delightfully usable data - focused on developing user-friendly data products and frameworks to accelerate data-informed decision making. Your focus will be conceiving of, developing, and shipping data products that make analysis and insight-generation fast, repeatable, and easy. If you have a genuine love for data, thorny problems, building data products for internal stakeholders, and (of course) dogs - this role is for you!

How You'll Make An Impact

  • Lead and oversee the design, development, and implementation of analytics engineering solutions by ensuring they align with business objectives and standard methodologies.
  • Develop, design and optimize data pipelines, and data models, data workflows and queries to extract valuable insights from complex and large-scale datasets while ensuring efficient and reliable data processing.
  • Act as a subject matter expert, providing expert-level advice and guidance on complex data analytics projects and initiatives.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business partners to gather analytical requirements and design scalable data architectures that meet analytics needs and support business goals
  • Stay up to date on emerging data analytics trends and technologies, evaluating their potential for adoption and driving innovation within the team.
  • Apply data visualization tools and techniques to communicate analytical findings to technical and non-technical partners.
  • Partner closely with data engineers and analysts to integrate analytics solutions into existing systems and applications.
  • Mentor and advise guidance to other analytics engineers and advise data analysts, assisting them and consulting on technical problem-solving skills
  • Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, promoting knowledge sharing, standard methodologies, and continuous learning.

We're Excited About You Because

  • You have 4-6 years of experience in a analytics engineering,data engineering, or analytics role, with a focus on designing, launching, and iterating on self-service data products.
  • You’re highly proficient in SQL. Dbt and Looker experience is preferred.
  • You have experience with data manipulation, analysis, and visualization libraries and tools.
  • You demonstrate strong knowledge of data modeling and standard methodologies.
  • You’re comfortable with data warehouse technologies and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP).
  • You’re a leader and are a skilled mentor, with a proven track record of successfully leading analytics engineering projects.
  • You know that coding is only part of the job - you think strategically, connect dots, see around corners, and ensure the value-delivery of your work is realized
  • You are a high-agency individual with an ownership mindset
  • You enjoy “teaching others to fish” and think often about how to force-multiply the impact of your work
  • You are a problem-solver, highly attentive to detail and have the ability to work autonomously within complex problem spaces.

Office guidelines

The office is open and available for all Monday through Friday. We ask all team members to be in office a minimum of 2-3 days a week to build a collaborative and invested environment to foster our unique in-person culture we are proud to have. This office policy is subject to change at company discretion.

Our DEI Philosophy

Our company’s mission is rooted in deep, genuine care for dogs – and for the people who love them. As an organization we are full of individuals who are unique in many ways, but all united in a mission of providing true peace of mind to dog lovers everywhere. Fixing this industry and improving the lives of pets and their people will be a difficult, decades-long endeavor. We believe the best use of our time, energy, and resources as a collective team is to focus on this mission, and on supporting our team to do their best work and be their best selves. In support of this we’re committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce, and investing in internal structures, opportunities, hiring/promotions processes, and training that create and sustain an inclusive team. We strive to provide an experience at TFD that will be invested, meaningful and memorable as we progress on the journey to reimagine how we feed and care for our pets.

A Few of Our Best Benefits

  • Dog-friendly office in Greenwich Village
  • Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
  • Company sponsored mental health benefit and coaching through Modern Health
  • 12 week paid parental leave
  • Competitive 401k plan with company match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Discounted fresh food for your pup
  • Your pet interrupting video calls (and in-person meetings) is now a feature, not a bug

We commit to building a competitive compensation package and company environment for all individuals to thrive. We believe in competitive base compensation rooted in location specific market data and performance along with equity ownership in the company that allows every team member to build their personal wealth as the company grows, just as much as we believe in fostering a culture that supports our team members personally, professionally, and holistically. For this role the anticipated hiring base compensation range is $155,000 - $175,000 USD Annual and the compensation offered will include a robust market competitive package of base and equity. In addition to your base compensation offer you will also receive equity ownership in the company. More information about the value of this equity will be shared at the time of offer. This range is representative of NYC Market Data if you are applying to this role outside of the NYC area the range may change.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status. For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.