Analytics Engineer

Summary

Axios is a growth-focused media company dedicated to helping people get smarter, faster on what matters. As an Analytics Engineer at Axios, you’ll serve as the primary interface for delivering insights to the business, designing and maintaining the curated layers of their data platform and owning dashboards that translate data products into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Own the Silver and Gold layers of the medallion architecture: define, version, and maintain business metrics and semantic models
• Build and maintain executive dashboards and visualizations that communicate key insights effectively
• Define and enforce best practices for data visualization, storytelling, and stakeholder adoption
• Build and maintain data marts and semantic layers that serve multiple domains across Axios
• Review and certify dashboards for accuracy, consistency, and adherence to standards
• Collaborate with data engineering to ensure Silver layer tables meet business needs
• Implement data quality tests, documentation, and lineage tracking to ensure trust in analytics outputs
• Serve as a bridge to data science, ensuring feature stores and model outputs are well-documented and reusable
• Contribute to the hub-and-spoke model: rotate through responsibilities such as intake, quality assurance, and participation in the analytics hub, while serving as a strategic partner to stakeholders, helping them shape the right questions and identify the decisions their data should inform

Skills

• 2-5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Expertise in BI and visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern data stack (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent)
• Experience designing and modeling curated datasets, semantic layers or metric stores, and data marts that drive consistent and reliable decisions
• Understanding of medallion architecture and data governance best practices
• Solid grasp of versioning, testing, and CI/CD practices for data pipelines
• Strong data storytelling and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
• Comfort working in a hub-and-spoke model, balancing central standards with domain-specific consulting

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2-5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Expertise in BI and visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern data stack (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent)
• Experience designing and modeling curated datasets, semantic layers or metric stores, and data marts that drive consistent and reliable decisions
• Understanding of medallion architecture and data governance best practices
• Solid grasp of versioning, testing, and CI/CD practices for data pipelines
• Strong data storytelling and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
• Comfort working in a hub-and-spoke model, balancing central standards with domain-specific consulting

Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Birth-givers will have an additional 6-8 weeks depending on type of delivery, for a total of 18-20 weeks continuous leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture