Analytics Engineer in England

Skin + Me is a mission driven start-up with seriously big skin goals. We're on the lookout for a strategic and impact-driven Analytics Engineer to join our team. This hybrid role is based three days a week at our Paddington HQ (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday), with the flexibility to work remotely on the remaining two days.

About the role: In this role, you'll be the foundational technical pillar for Analytics Data Engineering across Skin + Me, Hair + Me, and Renew + Me. This is a high-leverage, IC role where you will be the primary architect of our data models and the guardian of our engineering standards. You'll be the "builder-in-chief," transforming raw data across commercial, operations, and marketing into the strategic engine that powers our growth. You will report directly to the Director of Data and act as a critical thought partner in scaling our technical landscape.

What you'll do:

• Take ownership of our dbt project: You will design, build and maintain the core data models that define our business logic, ensuring they are modular, tested, and high-performance.
• Build for scale: Design and implement data foundations that not only serve Skin + Me but are easily extensible across existing and future business units.
• Operational Excellence: You'll help to optimize warehouse performance (caching, clustering, query tuning) and ensure our pipelines are resilient with minimal downtime.
• Bridge the Gap to ML: Partner with the Director to productionise predictive models, ensuring our outputs are fed by robust, low-latency features.
• Champion Engineering Culture: Implement best practices across version control workflows, data contracts, and documentation.

How you'll work:

• Autonomy Challenge: You will be expected to execute with minimal technical guidance. More importantly, you will be expected to challenge the status quo—if a proposed architecture won't scale, you'll be the one to flag it and propose the alternative.
• Collaborative Impact: You'll work closely with the wider business to develop requirements for operational data changes, ensuring our analytical needs are "baked in" to upstream product shifts.
• Strategic Influence: While a technical IC, you will contribute directly to our medium-to-long-term data strategy, helping decide which technologies and processes will carry us through the next phase of growth.
• Innovation Automation: Actively champion and implement emerging technologies, including AI/ML and LLMs, to automate and optimize the data workflow—from ingestion to governance—driving efficiency and reducing the cost-to-serve for the data platform.
• Agility Resilience: Thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, demonstrating a high degree of adaptability and resilience in the face of shifting commercial priorities inherent to a high-growth DTC business.

Tech we're (currently) using: AWS RDS, AWS Athena/Presto, S3, AWS Glue, Superset, Airbyte, DBT, Python.

Why should you choose Skin + Me?

• A daily challenge – in a thrilling, entrepreneurial start-up environment, no two days will ever be the same.
• Make a difference – work within a revolutionary company that is focused on improving millions of lives.
• Significant equity – potentially life-changing value if you commit to our long-term mission.
• Serious commitment to growth – personal development is important to us and we'll make sure we support your growth, and give you broad experience across your role.
• Support network – the Skin + Me investors and advisors that you'll have the opportunity to work with have built some of the world's best consumer companies.

Benefits: 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual)