Analytics Engineering Manager

Kin Insurance is a remote-first employer dedicated to making homeowners' lives simpler and more affordable through innovative insurance solutions. The Analytics Engineering Manager will lead the analytics engineering team, overseeing the Looker platform and ensuring the quality of enterprise reporting while collaborating with data engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Provide directional administration of the Looker platform, including permissions, performance considerations, content lifecycle, and development standards
• Partner with teams to align on shared metrics and definitions, and guide them through semantic tradeoffs and definition differences
• Oversee the care, development, and reliability of Kin’s core dashboards and reports
• Partner with data engineers and provide input on dimensional model design and evolution while advocating for best practices that support downstream analytics
• Hire and lead analytics engineers, mentoring them on modeling, semantic design, and stakeholder partnership
• Develop and implement new analytics and reporting solutions

Requirements:

• 6–8+ years in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data modeling roles
• Expert-level SQL and dimensional modeling abilities
• Advanced reasoning related to metrics, definitions, and business meaning
• Proven ability to design simple, durable semantic layers over complex data
• Comfort influencing upstream data design without owning ingestion or platform operations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to align technical and non-technical partners
• High emotional intelligence and empathy when working through differing perspectives
• Demonstrated leadership through mentoring, technical direction-setting, or informal team leadership
• Hands-on experience with modern lakehouse or warehouse platforms (e.g., Databricks) or BI tools (e.g., Looker)