Head of Analytics Engineering

Job description

ClassDojo’s goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.

We started by building a powerful network for communication. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-12 teachers, children, and families globally. Teachers use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos, videos, and messages that make parents feel like they’re there. It’s actively used in over 95% of US schools, reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries, with a team of just around 200 people [1]. We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world, far beyond those a standard school can provide.

We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative teammates from around the world, with experience in education and large scale consumer internet companies, including Instagram, Lyft, Dropbox, Stripe, Airbnb, Y Combinator, and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.

What you’ll do:

We are seeking a Head of Analytics Engineering to lead and scale our data foundation. In this pivotal leadership role, you will set the vision for analytics engineering, architect scalable solutions, and build a high-performing team. You will partner closely with cross-functional and executive stakeholders to make data accessible, trusted, and actionable - driving strategic impact across product, engineering, and operations. Your leadership will ensure that data becomes a core enabler of decision-making throughout the company.

You will be a match if:

7+ years experience with data / analytics engineering with at least 3 years of managing Analytics Engineering teams

Strategic Influence and Organizational Partnership

• You lead cross-functional, high-impact initiatives that transform how the organization uses data to drive decision-making and product outcomes.
• You serve as a thought partner to executives, product leaders, and senior engineering counterparts, shaping long-term strategy and technical direction through deep data acumen and architectural foresight.
• You proactively align data strategy with product and engineering vision—operating at the planning and prioritization stage—to steer teams toward scalable, principled solutions.
• You are known as aforce multiplier, not only through technical contributions, but by building the right team structure, fostering healthy cross-functional collaboration, and driving a culture of strategic clarity and quality.

Systems Thinking & Data Architecture Leadership

• You oversee the design of data ecosystems that handle business complexity at scale, championing modular, forward-compatible architectures (e.g. semantic layers, universal metrics frameworks, streaming integrations).
• You hold the bar on modeling and architecture standards, ensure technical consistency across teams, and personally review the most complex, high-impact design decisions.
• You define and govern ownership of data domains across your team, ensuring schemas reflect strategic business and product abstractions across fact, agg, and cube layers.

People Leadership, Team Building & Performance

• You build and grow high-performing teams through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, and career development practices.
• You cultivate a psychologically safe, inclusive culture that fosters innovation, experimentation, and accountability. Your team operates with autonomy, speed, and a shared sense of excellence.
• You set clear goals and performance expectations—managing capacity, leveling workloads, and advocating for resourcing to match ambition.
• You guide the team through organizational change and technical evolution, ensuring consistent execution even in moments of ambiguity.

Technical Excellence & Thought Leadership

• You’re ahands-on technical leader who brings deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, Airflow, dbt, and data orchestration—and you coach others toward the same standards.
• You establish and operationalize best practices across modeling, testing, version control, observability, and performance tuning—often via frameworks or internal tooling that scale team effectiveness.
• You lead evaluations and rollouts of modern tools, frameworks, or architectural shifts (e.g., dbt metrics layer, column-level lineage, warehouse-native apps) that unlock new business capabilities or reduce complexity.

Mentorship, Enablement & Cross-functional Culture

• You are a mentor to engineers, analysts, and cross-functional partners alike. You build learning systems—docs, design reviews, internal courses, and more—to scale technical excellence across your org.
• You model proactive collaboration with Engineering, Product, Legal, and GTM teams, helping demystify the data landscape and ensuring that insights and infrastructure deliver strategic value, not just reporting.
• You lead with context and transparency, ensuring stakeholders are aligned on data definitions, source-of-truth systems, and the tradeoffs behind key design decisions.

You might be a good fit if:

• You are a continuous learner. Staying current in the latest trends and technologies in AI, data analytics, and educational technology is no easy feat . You will have the opportunity to lead initiatives to experiment with new data sources, data warehouses, analytics methodologies, and technologies to enhance our analytics capabilities and drive innovation within the company.
• You’ve transformed a tactical data stack into a strategic platform used across an organization.
• You balance vision and execution—knowing when to lead with a north star and when to deliver the next best milestone.
• You have a bias for action, but you never compromise data trust, systems quality, or your people.

[1] Some more context:

(If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)

• How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers
• “Whats New on ClassDojo 2023”
• TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits

Click here if you’re interested in learning more about what we’ve been up to.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.

ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):

CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $230,000 - $280,000 (USD)

All other states in the US: $195,500 - $238,000 (USD)

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