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Angi is seeking a Principal Analytics Engineer to lead product analytics architecture and make trusted data easier for analysts, dashboards, and AI agents to consume. The role owns the design and evolution of scalable dbt data products, semantic-layer standards, governance controls, testing practices, and metadata conventions. It requires deep SQL and Python expertise, experience with modern data stacks and governance tooling, and the ability to influence product, platform, and analytics teams without direct authority. The principal-level engineer will also establish shared engineering patterns, conduct technical reviews, and mentor analysts and engineers. Success depends on reducing ambiguity and cycle time while delivering reliable, AI-safe analytical infrastructure.
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I would begin by aligning stakeholders on canonical business entities, metric definitions, grains, dimensions, and ownership. I would implement these definitions as version-controlled semantic models with clear metadata, access paths, tests, lineage, and deprecation processes. Finally, I would validate outputs against priority dashboards and common analyst queries before exposing governed interfaces to AI consumers.
I would treat recurring issues as product signals rather than isolated support requests. I would identify root causes through query patterns and user feedback, then create reusable conformed models, documented join paths, metric contracts, and automated tests. Adoption metrics and office hours would help confirm that the new patterns reduce rework and improve trust.
AI access should be limited to approved, well-described semantic models rather than raw warehouse tables. I would enforce role-based and policy-aware access, document grain and metric intent, apply row- and column-level protections where needed, and use monitored query interfaces. Quality, freshness, lineage, and evaluation checks are essential so agents receive accurate and appropriately governed context.
I establish credibility through clear technical proposals, measurable tradeoffs, and early stakeholder involvement. I frame recommendations around shared outcomes such as faster experimentation, fewer incidents, or improved metric consistency, then use prototypes and documented standards to make adoption easy. Regular reviews and feedback loops ensure teams retain ownership while converging on common patterns.
I would define a data-product lifecycle that includes named owners, contracts, documentation, freshness service levels, lineage, and tests for schema, uniqueness, relationships, accepted values, and business logic. Critical models would have observability and incident procedures, while pull-request review standards would ensure changes are evaluated for downstream impact. The standards should be risk-based so teams can move quickly without compromising high-value data.
For over 30 years, Angi has powered the future of the home services industry, creating an environment where homeowners and pros benefit from more jobs done well.
For homeowners, our platform is a reliable way to find skilled pros. For pros, we’re a reliable business partner who helps them find the winnable work they want, when they want. For employees, we’re an amazing place to call home. We can’t wait to welcome you.
Angi at a glance:
Founded in 1995 as Angie’s List and rebranded in 2021
Global company with 9 brands in 8 countries and employees worldwide
Homeowners have turned to us for 300 million home projects and counting
About the team
The Principal Analytics Engineer for Product Analytics will shape how product data is transformed and consumed, ensuring that both human analysts and AI agents receive consistent metrics, faster iteration, and trustworthy answers. This role is central to designing and evolving an analytics architecture that radically shortens the distance from complex business questions to validated insights. As a Principal leader, you will be the connective tissue across data engineering, analytics, and product teams—architecting pipelines, semantic layers, and quality practices so they work as a singular, cohesive system.
The ideal candidate is a visionary technical simplifier with deep expertise in modern data stacks, a passion for developer/analyst velocity, and a proven ability to enable partner teams. You will play a dual role: empowering human analysts to spend less time debugging and more time driving strategy, while simultaneously hardening our data layer into a load-bearing, semantic infrastructure that AI tools can query accurately and safely.
What you’ll do
Architecture & Semantic Layer Strategy
Data Product Ownership: Design, build, and evolve high-scale dbt models that transform raw upstream inputs into clean, well-documented, analytics-ready data products with clear contracts and ownership.
Agent-Safe Infrastructure: Implement critical guardrails, clear grain definitions, meaningful metadata descriptions, and approved access paths so AI tools and agents can query data accurately without bypassing governance.
Semantic Evolution: Shape how metrics are defined and exposed so that analysts, dashboards, and AI tools all return the same answer to the same question, turning the semantic layer into production-grade infrastructure for AI-powered BI.
Operational Excellence & Velocity
Friction Elimination: Translate recurring analyst pain points—such as ambiguous metrics, broken joins, or undocumented fields—into durable, reusable models, patterns, and shared interfaces.
Quality & Governance Standards: Set and hold the bar for what “done” means for a data product, embedding robust testing, freshness expectations, data catalogs, and metadata ownership into the development lifecycle.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate across data platforms and product teams to map use cases, eliminate duplicate work, surface technical tradeoffs early, and drastically reduce cycle times from business question to trusted answer.
Leadership & Enablement
Shared Frameworks: Collaborate with data and analytics engineering peers to establish and maintain global patterns, package management, and repository best practices.
Mentorship & Review: Raise the collective engineering bar across the organization by running technical reviews, hosting office hours, and leading pair-programming sessions with domain analysts and engineers.
Who you are
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s in computer science or a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields).
12+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering with heavy analytics partnership, or an equivalent technical data role.
Expert-level SQL and strong Python proficiency for advanced data work, with a proven track record of delivering on a modern data stack (transformation-as-code, orchestration, warehouses, and BI).
Experience with data governance tooling, including data catalogs, lineage systems, and policy-aware access patterns.
Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills with a history of influencing engineering and product teams without direct authority.
Strong technical communication skills, with the unique ability to explain complex modeling decisions to a product analyst without jargon, and to a platform engineer without oversimplifying.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience working directly with dbt and Snowflake in a high-scale environment.
Practical experience implementing data mesh architectures or federated data ownership models.
Exposure to AI/LLM tooling as a data consumer, with a strong conceptual grasp of what clean, well-structured data requires to be successfully queried by AI agents and assistants.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary band for this position ranges from $165,000 – $240,000 commensurate with experience and performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as cost of living.
This position will be eligible for a competitive year end performance bonus & equity package.
Full medical, dental, vision package to fit your needs
Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
Pet discount plans & retirement plan with company match (401K)
The rare opportunity to work with sharp, motivated teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and changing the world
We value diversity
We know that the best ideas come from teams where diverse points of view uncover new solutions to hard problems. We welcome and value individuals who bring diverse life experiences, educational backgrounds, cultures, and work experiences.
Our hiring process may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement, not replace, human decision-making.
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