Analytics Engineering Manager, Data Platform & Governance

Headquarters: Mexico URL: http://lawnstarter.com About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $750M in annual bookings. We're expanding beyond lawn care to become the one-stop shop for all home services, operating across three brands (LawnStarter, Lawn Love, Home Gnome) on a single shared platform. About Analytics at LawnStarter We're a small, senior analytics team supporting the entire company, product, marketing, operations, and finance all run on the data we serve. The foundation is solid: a centralized Redshift data warehouse where all source data lands, modeled in dbt and orchestrated by Airflow, with Segment feeding event data in. You won't be stitching scattered sources together, the platform exists; your job is to make it trustworthy and keep it that way. We're mid-migration to Lightdash as our single BI platform, replacing Tableau and Metabase. Here's the honest gap: everyone on the team today is an analyst. Data quality, tracking standards, and platform hygiene get done as side work, squeezed between analyses. Nobody wakes up thinking about them, which is exactly the job we're hiring for. The Role You'll be the first person at LawnStarter dedicated to data governance, the owner of whether our data can be trusted, and of the roadmap that makes it more trustworthy every quarter. Trust means the quality and freshness of our source data, pipelines, and reports; the definitions behind our metrics; the standards behind our Segment event tracking; the health of our Lightdash workspace; the data feeding our machine learning models; and the security of the data itself. The roadmap means sitting with product, marketing, ops, and finance to understand what the business needs from data, turning that into priorities for the platform, and sequencing the work, yours and, soon, your team's. This is a hands-on role, every manager at LawnStarter builds, and this one is no exception. You'll start solo, with the Analytics team around you: building automation, writing checks, fixing what's broken, and putting processes in place that scale past you. Once you've landed, we open a Lead Analytics Engineer role reporting to you, you'll help choose them, and the function grows from there as scope demands. What makes this role different: You're first. Governance has been everyone's side job, so what exists today is yours to reshape, keep what works, redesign what doesn't, and your standards become the company's standards. You own the roadmap, not a backlog. Nobody hands you requirements, you discover what the business needs from data and decide what gets built, in what order, and why. Whole-stack ownership. Source data to pipelines to dashboards and ML models, you own trust across the entire chain, not one slice of it. A live migration to shape. Lightdash is landing now. You get to set up its permissions, structure, and norms before bad habits form, instead of untangling them later. What You'll Own The data roadmap - discovering what product, marketing, ops, and finance need from data, prioritizing it against platform health, and sequencing the investment. You'll present it, defend it, and re-plan it as the business moves. Data quality and freshness - automated monitoring across source data, pipelines, and reports; catching upstream schema and source changes before they break anything downstream; running incid