Data Engineering and Analytics Lead

About Motion

Project management systems today are great at letting companies record their tasks, but place all of the burden on human project coordinators. These tools don’t know about the team’s time and resources and don’t have any intelligence — someone has to manually match tasks against their assumptions about the team’s capacity. Not only does this process waste precious company resources, it’s also error-prone and leads to overwork, missed deadlines, miscommunication, and micromanagement.

Motion is building the world’s most intelligent project management system — one that doesn’t require a project coordinator manually tracking each task, but rather an intelligent system that can make sense of hundreds of tasks across dozens of projects and automatically coordinate them across every person on the team. Motion allows companies to focus on the work they need to do rather than wasting up to 50% of their resources on overhead.

Our users give us data on their workload (e.g. projects and tasks) and resources (employee roles, calendars, and schedules). Based on all this information, Motion makes intelligent decisions about how tasks should be executed — better than any human project coordinator. Teams that use Motion know what people are working on at any given time, when each task will be completed, and whether any tasks will fall behind schedule. The moment something changes, instead of the coordinator having to figure out all the cascading effects, Motion instantly creates a new optimized plan for the team.

Motion is the project management system of the future. We are growing extremely quickly, trusted by thousands of customers, have millions in revenue, near-infinite runway, and an exceptionally talented team. Most of Motion's 30 employees work in engineering, and the majority of those in business and operations roles also have technical skills.

About The Role

Motion is hiring its first dedicated data person - someone who can lead our data efforts as we scale. Today, data is a major focus for Motion, but the work is owned by the founders directly. We hope that a dedicated data lead will help us improve our systems even faster and innovate on the role. In this role you’ll work directly with Motion’s founders and growth engineering team and grow to lead all aspects of data at Motion. You’ll start as a senior individual contributor, and quickly move into setting the vision and strategy for our data platform.

We’re looking for a jack of all trades who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and tackle every part of our data work: data engineering, infrastructure, modeling & forecasting, and business intelligence. To illustrate the breadth your work may cover, here are some example projects: standing up orchestration and ETL tools, creating data models and pipelines in Snowflake and dbt for financial reporting, predicting revenue and retention of user cohorts in Python and pandas, building dashboards for marketing attribution in Streamlit, and discovering product insights through analyzing click stream data.

We work hard to ensure Motion’s engineering team is one of the highest talent-density teams in the world. We have accomplished in weeks or months what it would take larger teams years to do. As a data lead on our team, you will work on Motion’s highest impact projects and have ownership over major parts of the our data stack.

You will be a successful data lead at Motion if:

• You are ambitious and always looking for ways to improve. For most people, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at. Don’t rest on your past achievements — expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion. You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from

• You can take ownership of projects and lead them to completion while dealing with ambiguity and finding the right balance between speed and quality. You don’t need every detail and edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks

• You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex product and code base. You aren’t afraid to tackle any part of the stack or learn a new unfamiliar technology. You are comfortable with the fact that working in a startup means working around tech debt

• You have a strong understanding of how you can create the most impact, and don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter. You’re excited to work on whatever solves the biggest customer problems, not just the coolest technical challenges

• You can collaborate effectively with other talented engineers and work well in an environment where the best ideas win. The median engineer at Motion has 9 years experience. You should expect your ideas to get challenged and to learn a lot from your coworkers

Technology Stack

We prefer candidates who are familiar with our data stack and can hit the ground running when they join us. We don’t expect you to know all of our technologies, but enough of them to pick up the rest quickly. Our data stack: Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte/Fivetran/Stitch, Census/Hightouch, Amplitude. Candidates must be strong users of Python, pandas, SQL.

Motion is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, race, ancestry, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our job openings. 

Helpful Links:

Motion Culture: https://motionapp.notion.site/Motion-Company-Culture-21bd766b1f864764b0db2fa72529b182

Motion in the Press: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/2393012/

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