
Forward Deployed Data Engineer
Overview
Hightouch is hiring a Forward-Deployed Data Engineer to help customers get the most out of their data by working directly with customer data teams to design solutions that make the Hightouch product more effective.
Job Description
Hightouch’s mission is to empower everyone to take action on their data. They pioneered the Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP) and have a new AI Decisioning platform. Hightouch is based in San Francisco but has team members all over the world and is backed by leading investors.
Responsibilities
- - Translate prospect and customer business goals into actionable data models and workflows
- - Partner directly with customer data teams to understand their goals and technical landscape
- - Design and implement data solutions that are both scalable and easy to use by marketing teams
- - Troubleshoot complex data issues and guide customers toward best practices
- - Collaborate with internal teams to surface product feedback and influence roadmap priorities
- - Prioritize tasks across multiple customers while maintaining high quality and responsiveness
- - Contribute to internal tooling, playbooks, and knowledge sharing to uplevel the team
- - Measure and communicate the business impact of your work with customers
- - Support internal data engineering initiatives as needed, contributing to the stability of our own analytics infrastructure
Required Skills
- - Strong SQL skills and experience modeling data in cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
- - Hands-on experience with dbt or similar transformation tools
- - Experience designing data models intended for self serviceability by less technical users
- - Experience optimizing complex data pipelines to reduce complexity/cost/latency
- - Ability to work directly with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- - Comfortable working across multiple customer environments and adapting quickly to new contexts
- - Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- - Strong analytical thinking and a track record of shipping impactful, scalable solutions
Benefits
- - Meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options
- - Early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window
About the company
Hightouch is a customer data platform that syncs data from existing warehouses to tools like CRMs, email marketing platforms, and ad networks. It helps businesses use their data for personalized marketing, improving customer engagement and campaign performance. With a no-code interface, Hightouch simplifies data integration while avoiding duplication, ensuring data integrity and security. Its features include audience segmentation, data transformation, and automation—empowering teams to streamline both marketing and operational workflows.
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