# Director, Analytics Engineering

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,200-$285,600 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Director, Analytics Engineering to lead a team of 8 and report to the VP of Data & Insights. The successful candidate will have three main mandates:

- Build trusted, AI-ready self-service capabilities.

- Set the strategy for how GitLab accesses data.

- Build data applications that the whole company relies on.

Responsibilities include:

- Building and owning a trusted semantic model with governed metrics and business definitions.

- Developing evals and ground-truth datasets to measure answer quality.

- Instrumenting telemetry to monitor usage of the semantic model and AI tools.

- Building a model-selection harness for flexible cost and quality management.

- Defining the AI data access strategy and owning data modeling and curated datasets.

- Setting engineering standards for data applications and leading a high-performing team.

Requirements:

- 12+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or BI.

- Deep expertise in data modeling and semantic layers.

- Hands-on experience with LLM-powered data access and advanced use of AI coding agents.

- Expert SQL and strong Snowflake experience.

- Strong data governance experience.

- Track record of leading cross-functional data initiatives.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with LLM routing or gateway tools.

- Experience with Tableau, Omni, or a BI platform migration.

- Experience with web app development and Postgres.

The base salary range for this role is $139,200-$285,600 USD.

Benefits include:

- Health, financial, and well-being support.

- Flexible Paid Time Off.

- Team Member Resource Groups.

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

- Growth and Development Fund.

- Parental Leave.

## Skills

### Required
- data modeling
- semantic layers
- LLM-powered data access
- SQL
- Snowflake
- data governance

### Nice to have
- LLM routing or gateway tools
- Tableau
- Omni
- BI platform migration
- web app development
- Postgres

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