Job Description
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
You will be the founding BI Engineer at Altana responsible for building the analytical infrastructure that enables data-driven decision-making across the entire company. This is not a reporting role that sits downstream of decisions already made—it is a foundational engineering role that will define how Altana understands its own business customers and products.
You will own the full stack from data modeling and pipeline orchestration through semantic layers dashboards and self-service tooling. You will partner directly with engineering product go-to-market and finance leadership to translate ambiguous business questions into reliable well-modeled data products. Because you are the first hire in this function you will also set the technical direction tooling choices and quality standards that future BI engineers will inherit.
What You Will DoBuild the BI Foundation- Design and implement a scalable analytics data warehouse (or lakehouse) layer on top of Altana’s existing data infrastructure.
- Define the canonical dimensional model: facts dimensions conformed keys and slowly changing dimensions for core business entities (customers transactions subscriptions product usage pipeline).
- Stand up and own the transformation layer (e.g. dbt) with version control CI/CD testing and documentation standards from day one.
- Establish a semantic/metrics layer so that “revenue” “active customer” and “retention” mean exactly one thing company-wide.
- Build and maintain executive dashboards covering SaaS metrics (ARR NRR GRR expansion/contraction logo churn) product engagement and operational health.
- Create self-service datasets and exploration environments so that PMs GTM leads and finance can answer their own questions without filing a ticket.
- Own data quality monitoring alerting and incident response for the BI layer.
- Act as the embedded analytics thought partner for engineering leadership product sales CS and finance—translating business context into data requirements and vice versa.
- Proactively identify trends anomalies and opportunities in the data; surface them before anyone asks.
- Drive alignment on KPI definitions measurement methodology and reporting cadences.
- Evaluate and recommend the BI tooling stack (visualization orchestration cataloging observability) with an eye toward total cost of ownership and long-term maintainability while re-using infrastructure and tooling already part of the larger stack.
- Write the playbook: style guides naming conventions PR review standards and on-call expectations for the BI function.
- Hire mentor and grow the BI team as demand scales.
- 7+ years of professional experience in analytics engineering BI engineering or a closely related data discipline.
- Deep fluency in SQL and at least one transformation framework (dbt strongly preferred).
- Strong dimensional modeling skills: star/snowflake schemas conformed dimensions incremental loading patterns.
- Production experience operating a modern lakehouse stack (e.g. Snowflake/BigQuery/ Databricks) including transformation tooling (dbt or DLT) and a BI layer (Looker Tableau or Sigma).
- Track record of defining and shipping company-wide KPI frameworks and executive dashboards.
- Comfort working in ambiguity: you have built a BI function (or a significant new workstream within one) from scratch before.
- Excellent communication skills—you can explain a data model to an engineer and a retention curve to a CRO with equal clarity.
- Experience with Python for data pipelines scripting or lightweight ML/statistical analysis.
- Familiarity with SaaS business models and metrics (ARR NRR logo vs. dollar churn cohort analysis).
- Exposure to supply chain trade compliance or government contracting domains.
- Experience with data cataloging or governance tools (e.g. Atlan DataHub Monte Carlo).
- Prior experience as the first or founding analytics hire at a growth-stage company.
US Salary Range and Benefits
$180000- $210000 USD
The salary range to the extent specified for this role is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
- Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
- Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL) providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing adoptive and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents all paid at 100% of your base salary.
- Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical vision and dental benefits with generous employer contributions designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
- Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life short- and long-term disability and AD&D insurance coverage all at no cost to you so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
- 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
- Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
- Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm the #1 app for meditation sleep and mindfulness.
- Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
- Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
- Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Our values are the core beliefs that shape who we are what we stand for and how we behave.They form the foundation of Altana’s culture and integrity and guide how we hire design build and connect with each other and our customers.
- Trust: Our customers and partners entrust us with missions of the highest importance. We honor that by keeping our word meeting commitments and ensuring every action we take reinforces confidence in us. We rely on each other to deliver to speak openly and to hold ourselves accountable.
- Resilience: In a world of uncertainty and complexity our work must withstand challenges evolve with conditions and ensure reliability over time. Resilience is both how we operate and what we deliver. It’s how we respond when things don’t go to plan –– we adapt we support each other and we keep moving forward.
- Stewardship: We are stewards of every mission we touch. Because our work impacts lives and futures we hold ourselves accountable to delivering mission impact and never compromising. Our responsibility extends beyond individual projects to the broader system of global trade. We believe that stewardship starts from within so that we can bring focus creativity and excellence to our work. Each of us is personally responsible for fostering a workplace where people can thrive. And we are stewards of the greater good of the company. By holding ourselves and each other accountable we build a culture of innovation and collective success that reflects the scale of our mission.
- Courage: Courage is what unlocks the seemingly impossible for our customers. It’s the core value that drives us make bold moves and take on big complicated network problems—the ones others avoid. We know success isn't guaranteed but we have the audacious vision to believe a solution is possible and to build it. Courage fuels our growth mindset. It means embracing challenges that make us stronger and it’s demonstrated by how we approach hard conversations and complex projects.
At Altana we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity performance and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications without regard to race color religious creed national origin ancestry age physical or mental disability medical condition marital status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic information family care or medical leave status military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type in any situation.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.
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What We Do
Altana is the world's product network empowering a new era of global commerce by uniting businesses and governments on a trusted AI-powered platform to build a safer more resilient supply chain. The United States and allied governments use Altana’s product network to enforce tariffs and manage their borders. Five of the world’s 10 largest logistics providers use Altana to efficiently manage cross-border trade and 140 million buyer-supplier connections are managed on the network.
Why Work With Us
Altana provides competitive base salaries full global benefits including a 100% employer-paid plan and tax-advantaged HSA and FSA options in the US. Plus we provide a generous PTO policy annual stipends for wellness and learning and development equity program and up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
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Date Posted
04/18/2026
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