Director, Data

About Us

dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.

• As the Head of Data, you'll be part of a leadership team that drives our overall company strategy!
• You will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, vision, and direction to our data analysts and analytics engineering team (a team dedicated to our company platform and infrastructure as well as several embedded teammates)
• Drive and execute our “dbt Labs on dbt” initiative - an internal dog-fooding strategy that allows us to pioneer new best practices for our products and transform our organization!
• Lead and develop the data platform function that connects dbt to the rest of the modern data stack, as well as to internal business systems and event infrastructure
• Represent dbt Labs as a thought leader at industry engagements and with prospective customers
• Be the steward for dbt Labs’ internal data usage and data governance in preparation for organizational scale.
• Collaborate with the executive team and their directs on a roadmap that spans overall analytics and a center of data excellence
• Own and report on KPIs that represent platform stability and uptime, internal engagement with data and stakeholder satisfaction

• Are a seasoned people manager who has worked with different types of data roles — analytics, data engineering, analytics engineering — and can reason about differing expectations and responsibilities of each function
• Are deeply familiar with dbt and the modern data stack, and have developed opinions on the systems and processes data teams should use to best enable an organization
• Have demonstrated success in landing impact through data initiatives
• You are comfortable in a remote first, writing heavy environment and know how to bring out the best in your team in a fully distributed setting

• Salary: $214,000 - $304,000 / year
• Equity Stake: *
• Benefits: In the US, dbt Labs offers unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!), 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave and a home office stipend. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package.

*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations

Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 20,000 companies using dbt every week, 65,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 3,500 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D: read the announcement here!

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns.  If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at [email protected] if you need assistance or an accommodation. 

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here. 

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time.