Hybrid Analytics Engineer

at Skin + Me

• Job title: Analytics Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Analytics Engineer foundational technical pillar for Analytics & Data Engineering at Skin + Me, transforming raw data into a strategic engine for growth. Reporting to the Director of Data and optimizing performance across business units.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be the foundational technical pillar for Analytics & Data Engineering across Skin + Me, Hair + Me, and Renew + Me.
• Report directly to the Director of Data and act as a critical thought partner in scaling our technical landscape.
• Take ownership of our dbt project: design, build and maintain the core data models that define our business logic, ensuring they are modular, tested, and high-performance.
• Design and implement data foundations that serve Skin + Me and are easily extensible across existing and future business units.
• Help to optimize warehouse performance (caching, clustering, query tuning) and ensure our pipelines are resilient with minimal downtime.
• Partner with the Director to productionise predictive models, ensuring our outputs are fed by robust, low-latency features.
• Implement best practices across version control workflows, data contracts, and documentation.
• Execute with minimal technical guidance, challenge the status quo if a proposed architecture won’t scale.
• Work closely with the wider business to develop requirements for operational data changes.
• Contribute directly to our medium-to-long-term data strategy, helping decide technologies and processes.
• Champion and implement emerging technologies, including AI/ML and LLMs, to automate and optimize data workflow.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, demonstrating high adaptability and resilience.

Requirements

• You’ll be the foundational technical pillar for Analytics & Data Engineering across Skin + Me, Hair + Me, and Renew + Me.
• You will report directly to the Director of Data and act as a critical thought partner in scaling our technical landscape.
• 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.
• Design and implement data foundations that not only serve Skin + Me but are easily extensible across existing and future business units.
• You’ll help to optimize warehouse performance (caching, clustering, query tuning) and ensure our pipelines are resilient with minimal downtime.
• Partner with the Director to productionize predictive models, ensuring our outputs are fed by robust, low-latency features.
• Implement best practices across version control workflows, data contracts, and documentation.
• You will be expected to execute with minimal technical guidance.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays) – It's important to take a break and recharge
• Free Breakfast & Lunch – It’s important you are well fuelled for the day so we've got your breakfast and lunch covered. Plus drinks and snacks are available too!
• Hybrid working to give you flexibility – We are all remote on Wednesday and Thursday. When we are in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday our core hours are 10-4. If you're an early bird you can do 7-4, and if you're a night owl 10-7 is fine too.
• Equity – We offer a competitive salary and a generous share award package that means every employee has a stake in the business. We really are all in this together
• Health and wellbeing focus – We offer a healthcare cash plan, cycle to work schemes plus free healthy breakfast and lunch in the office. We'll be sure to always prioritise your physical and mental health.
• £500 annual development budget for any learning, training and development opportunities. Courses, books, software – if it helps you in your role, we’ll help you get it.
• For working parents, we’re proud to offer assistance, helping you save on nursery fees. The workplace nursery benefit allows you to save tax and National Insurance on the full cost of your nursery fees each month.
• Culture club – Our culture club team meets regularly to make sure we celebrate our big wins and milestones too, with parties, surprises and more.
• You’ll get highly discounted Skin + Me products for you, and 10 friends + family too.
• Generous employee referral scheme, if you know more fabulous people refer them to work with us too and you’ll get a bonus when they pass probation.
• Dog-friendly office with two very cute resident dogs!