Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, and are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineering Manager to lead our growing analytics engineering team within the Data Services group. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the development of core data model architecture and ensuring the delivery of quality data product solutions. You’ll drive the adoption of dbt (data build tool), and evangelize best practices in data modeling.  

This role is instrumental in delivering against our broader Data Services mission to enable our customers to work fearlessly with data. It demands a strong technical background in analytics engineering, exceptional leadership skills, and a passion for driving innovation. 

Within the Justworks Data Services team, you’ll find a highly collaborative, diverse group of individuals motivated to empower Justworkers to work fearlessly and responsibly with data. We are committed to growing our impact in the best interest of our customers and evolving how we work together in the best interest of our people & company. Come build the future with us!

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

  • Lead a team of talented analytics engineers to develop high-impact data products that drive business value.
  • Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable analytics infrastructure, including data pipelines, data warehouses, and BI tools, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand their domain data needs, and translate business requirements into technical specifications. Develop data products to meet those needs.
  • Manage the team's day-to-day activities, including project prioritization, resource allocation, and performance management - setting clear goals and milestones and ensuring timely delivery.
  • Partner with and enroll our BI partners in data modeling best practices.
  • Ensure that the team follows best practices in engineering, inclusive of concerns around data governance, data quality, and data security.
  • Stay current with industry trends and best practices in analytics engineering and apply them to improve our modeling capabilities.
  • Other related duties as assigned.

How You Will Do Your Work

In the Senior Manager, Analytics Engineering role, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately results in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.

Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.

Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.

Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

  • Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
  • Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
  • Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
  • Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
  • Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience in data engineering, data science or a similar role
  • Minimum of 4 years of people management experience (experience building a team, a plus)
  • Expert proficiency in SQL and strong understanding of scripting languages (Ruby, Python, bash)
  • Significant experience leading data architecture projects and driving decisions related to data model design and implementation
  • Significant familiarity with data modeling & analytics engineering best practices
  • Ability to think strategically but also be able to do things needed at the moment 
  • Experience with dbt (data build tool) or similar data modeling tools is highly desirable
  • Solid understanding of data governance principles and best practices
  • Excellent communication skills, with ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong leadership skills, with a track record of leading high-performing teams
  • Strong leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team
  • Solid experience in Agile/Lean practices and working closely with product management
  • High levels of empathy and interpersonal skills
  • Plus: Experience with developing data architectures to support ML and/or DS needs.

Technologies Used

  • AWS: S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Serverless Application Model, CloudFormation, RDS, DMS, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, MSK, Step Functions, MWAA
  • Languages: SQL, Python, Terraform 
  • Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Tableau, Redash, GitHub, CircleCI, Jira

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $235,000 to $270,250 per year.
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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks. 

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.

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