Senior Analytics Engineer, Data Platform

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. About the Role, Mission or Department OverviewWe are looking for analytical talent to turn experience with data and support of world-class journalism into decision-making insights. As part of the Data and Insights Group (DIG) and Data Platforms, you will join a large community of accomplished data professionals who partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across the business. You will focus on supporting our enterprise partners and report to our Executive Director, Analytics Engineering.Responsibilities:You will independently lead work streams in a high leverage, high visibility role building the next generation of data foundations for our core enterprise reporting datasets that executives depend on dailyYou will be our subject matter expert on our subscription data, translating our needs into technical implementations and mentoring teammates on the domainYou will design reusable business logic and data pipelines allowing other analysts and partners to answer questions quickly.You will develop data models, data contracts, alerting, context, and metrics/semantic layers supporting both traditional and AI-assisted analytical use cases.Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.Basic Qualifications:5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, product analytics or similar data-intensive rolesProficiency in SQL, DBT, and data transformation workflowsProficiency in Python for ETL and analytics use casesExperience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners; you will work with both business-focused partners and platform-focused engineersHands-on familiarity with GCP/BigQuery, Databricks/Spark, AWS, Snowflake, or other cloud data environmentsPreferred Qualifications:1+ years of experience working with billing, subscription, and revenue data for a digital subscription product1+ years of experience working with terabyte scale user engagement data for attribution1+ years of experience developing on and contributing to agentic analytics workflows on a data teamREQ-020523Compensation and Benefits For This Role:In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.The annual base pay range for this role is between:$124,000—$135,000 USDCandidate Use of GenAI Tools:We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. 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