Senior Analytics Engineer, Ads + Marketing

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

GameChanger is looking to add a Senior Analytics Engineer to our Core Data Engineering team. In this role, you will wrangle both 1st party and 3rd party data, own architecting our data foundation for reporting, analysis, and experimentation, and be a crucial partner in accelerating our advertiser growth and understanding paid marketing efforts. Using Python, SQL, and DBT, you will optimize and transform data from warehouse tables into critical self-serve data artifacts that power impactful analytic use cases (e.g. metrics, dashboards) and empower data consumers across the company.

What You’ll Do:

• Own architecting, optimizing, and transforming marketing- and ad-centric data models in DBT for flexible analysis by Data Analysts / Scientists and self-service by business stakeholders.

• Design data solutions to ensure data integrity throughout our pipelines, and support QA of our reports.

• Rapidly deliver on new concepts through prototyping that can be presented for feedback and iteration.

• Advance automation efforts that help the team spend less time validating data, and more time analyzing it.

• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base.

• Work closely with our Data Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, Marketing and Ads teams to build foundational models around attribution, click-through rates, A/B testing, funnels and surveys.

• Support cross functional core metrics and data dependencies with leadership visibility.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in the Marketing / Ads Data space as an analyst, engineer, or equivalent.

• Hands-on experience working with digital marketing, social, and advertising technologies, such as Google Marketing Platform, Google Ad Manager, Social Ad Managers, MMPs (AppsFlyer), and Site Analytics tools (Google Analytics).

• Hands-on experience working with data from platforms such as Braze, Salesforce, Hubspot.

• Understanding of the digital media ecosystem and subscription business model.

• Ability to write complex SQL, ad-hoc data pipelines, and experience in using Python for data analysis.

• Hands on experience implementing modern data modeling strategies with DBT, including validating data, building macros, and selecting optimal materialization.

• Comfort working in an agile, iterative environment and ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex business activities, technical requirements, and recommendations amongst cross-functional stakeholders.

Experience:

• Our data tech stack: Github, Airflow, Github Actions, AWS, Hubspot, Braze, Fivetran, DBT, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery, Looker, Hex (or equivalents).

• Nice to have: Experience with building and maintaining semantic layers and self-service technologies (e.g., Looker) for non-technical end-users.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $190,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

*DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

Compensation Range: $150K - $190K