Director, BI & Data Engineering

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading digital destination for growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectul, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn more about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees. 

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

Our Tech Stack

• Sigma, Indicative
• dbt + Snowflake
• Stitch, Airflow, Airbyte, Segment
• AWS

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a highly experienced and strategic Director of BI & Data Engineering to lead our self-service (strategy) & data platform. This team is responsible for smooth data operations and delivering data to our business teams, analysts, and scientists. Our data platform is actively used by more than 60% of the Babylist team, and is used across our Registry, Shop, Health, Partnership, Marketing and Fulfillment business areas. Working closely with embedded Data Specialists you make sure they have all the data to support their business areas. Together with other data leaders you plan and execute key initiatives. Long term you set the vision for how we evolve our technology stack to deliver a world-class data platform and self service experience. You will report directly to the Head of Data and lead a team of 6 incredibly talented Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers.

Who You Are

• You have a clear and thoughtful process for hiring and developing managers and engineers. You can speak to how you have elevated individual contributors and grown leaders. You understand that the best teams consist of talented people who volunteer to be in your org
• Inspirational for top-tier engineers seeking a fast-paced data role, able to design and change the organization over time
• Clear on what good engineering culture looks like. You can bring best practices from day one and evolve them to fit Babylist. You balance creativity and process
• Experience in articulating and implementing your vision for self-service that enables Babylist to self-serve most of their own questions. Obsessed with data maturity. You know what this looks like done well
• A strategic mindset and the ability to think critically, identify opportunities, and develop innovative solutions to enhance our data platform and self-service capabilities
• Willing to roll up your sleeves and go deep on project scoping and major architecture decisions
• Excellent with written and verbal communication.  You can easily extend this beyond just Product and Engineering
• 10+ years of experience building data in roles of increasing responsibility and technical capability
• 3+ years of experience managing a team of engineers of 10 or more

How You Will Make An Impact

• Own the vision, strategy, and delivery of our self-service capabilities. Deliver a world-class experience through training, well-designed and documented data models, successful data operations, data quality, and platform stability
• Guide the technical direction for the entire data platform and work with the data leadership to influence major technical decisions that affect the entire company
• Anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via intentional long-term planning
• Work closely with the executive a