Head of Analytics Engineering

Vancouver, BC (Remote)

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Rec Room

Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of rooms, or build something new to share with us all!

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(This role is fully remote for candidates located in British Columbia.)

Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of rooms, or build something new to share with us all! Rec Room is growing rapidly, with our data growing even faster. We’re looking for experienced data professionals to come and build out the foundational infrastructure at Rec Room. 

As the Analytics Engineering Manager, you'll drive the vision for our data warehouse and analytics layer, setting us up to scale in both the number of players and internal users. You’ll manage our growing AE team, mentoring and building out best practices, and encouraging a culture of learning. You’ll partner with leads across the company to ensure we have the right level of visibility into our business and drive the broader architectural vision for the warehouse and associated data processes at Rec Room. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Manage our growing team of Analytics Engineers, with a focus on hiring and scaling the team. 
  • Partner with PMs, designers, engineers, and data scientists to define a data vision that will support our many uses, including analyses, experimentation, machine learning, and feeding data back into the product.
  • Architect the data warehouse modeling layer and establish the patterns and processes which will serve as the foundation for scaling our data.
  • Become an expert in our stack, which includes prefect, Fivetran, dbt, Rudderstack, databricks, among others. Drive the vision for unifying these tools into a single seamless warehouse.
  • Identify gaps in our data collection processes and collaborate with product and engineering to iterate and improve current methodologies.
  • Design and implement top-level company dashboards to serve as the source of truth for company performance.
  • Build out experimentation datasets and pipelines to allow for granular analysis of A/B tests.
  • Partner with ML teams to build out data models to be used in model deployment
  • Work with partner teams to build datasets that will impact production, such as creator and player statistics.
  • Build out systems to evaluate ML model performance.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH: 

  • 5+ years of analytics experience, with substantial experience as an analytics engineer
  • Have a high level of proficiency in SQL (aggregate functions, window functions, complex joins, CTE), including query optimization skills
  • 2+ years experience managing Data Engineers or Analytics Engineers
  • Experience working at a product company and partnering closely with DS
  • Experience with Python or R is a plus

COMPANY INFO TO KNOW: 

Rec Room offers generous medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. We also support your retirement benefits with a company match. Rec Room values work-life balance by providing unlimited paid time off. Our company values are real and drive our culture. We work hard to be a safe and friendly place for people from all walks of life. 

Rec Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Applicants who are in need of a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr@recroom.com. Rec Room will work with each individual to define their application-related needs and to try to accommodate those needs.

Applicants can find our CCPA disclosure notice here. 

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: A/B testing Databricks Data warehouse Engineering FiveTran Machine Learning Model deployment Pipelines Python R SQL Statistics

Perks/benefits: Career development Health care Unlimited paid time off

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: Canada
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