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About the Company We are building the "TikTok of interactive mini-apps"—a high-growth consumer social platform where users scroll through a feed of playable, bite-sized experiences and create their own simply by describing what they want. Our AI-powered creation flow turns natural language into shareable, interactive content instantly. Backed by top-tier VCs including a16z, Khosla, and Mayfield, we have raised $30M, grown to over 1 million monthly active users (MAUs), and are scaling rapidly to become a major consumer platform. Why You Should Join • Founding Analytics Role: You will be data hire #1, giving you total ownership over our entire data layer from scratch. You define how we understand user behavior, creator dynamics, and viral growth loops. • Massive Scale, Early Stage: Work with complex, high-volume clickstream and product event logs for 1M+ active users. Your metrics and models will directly drive company strategy and product roadmaps. • Full Technical Autonomy: You own the architecture decisions, data culture, and tooling choices (BigQuery/Snowflake, dbt) from day one with zero legacy technical debt or red tape. • Engaged Leadership: You will report directly to a highly communicative engineering and product leadership team that averages a 4-hour response time and moves fast with the right candidates. What You'll Be Doing • Design and maintain core analytics data models, transforming messy, high-volume raw events and app logs into clean, trusted, analysis-ready tables. • Define, model, and operationalize company-wide metrics—including DAU/MAU ratios, user retention curves, creator supply health, and funnel conversion efficiency. • Partner directly with product and engineering teams to design and improve event taxonomy, clickstream instrumentation, and overall data quality across app, web, and backend. • Build dashboards and self-serve data products to help growth, engineering, and leadership teams diagnose product performance independently. • Establish data quality standards, robust testing via dbt, clear documentation, and freshness checks so the entire organization can trust the numbers. Role Requirements Technical Skills & Experience • 4+ years of analytics engineering experience —specifically focused on building robust data pipelines from raw product events, not just front-end BI or dashboarding work. • Advanced SQL & Data Modeling: Expert-level, hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake to build canonical, highly reusable datasets. • dbt Expertise: Highly comfortable building, testing, documenting, and maintaining complex data transformation pipelines using dbt. • Product Analytics Fluency: A deep understanding of core consumer metrics (DAU, retention, funnel conversion, organic viral loops) and experience setting up environments for experimentation and A/B testing. • Event Tracking & Instrumentation: Clear understanding of how to define event schemas and collaborate with engineers to instrument clean event tracking into production apps. Domain & Soft Skills • Consumer Social or Gaming Exposure: Prior experience working with high-volume behavioral data, creator economy dynamics, or consumer platform retention mechanics. • Early-Stage Velocity: Experience in fast-paced startup environments (Seed to Series B). You are highly comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid iteration. • Pragmatic Builder Mindset: You focus on shipping high-impact v1 pipelines quickly and iterating, rather than waiting to build flawless, over-engineered infrastructure. • Strong Communication: The ability to explain complex data models or data constraints clearly to product managers, designers, and business stakeholders. Profiles We Are Avoiding • Candidates whose experience is limited strictly to BI tool charting, report building, or dashboarding without deep data transformation ownership. • Engineers with an exclusive background in Enterprise/B2B SaaS or fintech metrics who lack experience with high-volume consumer clickstream data. • Academic or perfectionist mentalities that struggle to ship code quickly in an ambiguous, evolving startup environment. Interview Process • Technical Screen: A deep dive into data modeling, SQL, and dbt expertise, focused on past projects where you transformed raw events into clean datasets. • Final Round: A conversation with leadership evaluating product analytics thinking, consumer metric understanding, and founding team culture fit.

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