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Engineering Director, Data & Analytics Platform
Engineering Director, Data & Analytics Platform
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Ready to take your leadership career to the next level? We’re looking for an Engineering Director with a background in Data Engineering and/or Data Analytics to lead our core data platform. The Data and Analytics Platform empowers Yelp to make quick and informed decisions about our product and business. As a leader in this space, you will scale large, complex, cross-platform experimentation systems and data pipelines. These pipelines power metrics which enable data scientists and product managers to make go/no-go decisions on every feature we ship them to the Yelp app — putting you and your teams at the very center of decision making at Yelp. In addition, these systems also guide teams like Financial Planning, Data Science, Marketing and Business Operations on business critical functions such as building our publicly reported metrics and discovering new markets.
We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada.
Where You Come In:
- Unlock the full potential of our data platform by leading teams through automating data management with the goal of providing a true self-serve data platform.
- Explore new technologies and architectures to modernize our data products and platform.
- You will partner cross-organizationally with Data Science andData Product teams on experimentation and feature flagging platform innovations.
- You will mentor your reporting management team, developing them as data leaders and building strong relationships with their stakeholders to get the best from our data platform.
- Grow and empower the senior data and software engineers in your group to have impact across engineering.
What It Takes to Succeed:
- You have previous experience as a manager taking a “people first” approach. Maintaining a collaborative team culture is your priority, and you lead through empathy.
- You have excellent knowledge of data processing technologies such as: Kafka, Redshift, Flink, Spark.
- You have a vision for data at scale, self-serve data platforms, and operating a data mesh.
- You have experience in executing data governance and quality, and driving these through automation and management processes.
- You have hands-on experience driving change in a large organization.
- A Bachelor Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.
What You'll Get:
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
- You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!
Vaccination against COVID-19 is not required for this role. We nonetheless encourage all employees to get vaccinated. Employees who are not vaccinated may not visit Yelp’s offices or participate in any in-person work activities, and are not eligible to transfer or be promoted to a role that requires vaccination.
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At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.
Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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