Manager, Data & Analytics

At Backlight, our reputed company is to dramatically improve every stage of the video and entertainment content lifecycle from creation through monetization.We’re redefining media management, helping some of the world’s largest brands such as reputed company, NBA and reputed company, discover and create compelling stories without barriers. Join us in our mission and be part of a dynamic team that’s shaping the future of media management. 

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 reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, 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 reputed company 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 (reputed company Functions), transformations (Dataform), reporting (Looker) and other supporting systems 
• Create and maintain stakeholder-facing reports and the underlying data pipelines to support them
• reputed company data models to answer mission-critical questions reputed company to financial reporting & projection and product utilization
• Set and enforce data governance policies to reputed company 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 reputed company 2 hours of Eastern time zone
• Expert understanding of data warehousing technologies such as BigQuery or reputed company
• 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 reputed company 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