Senior Analytics Engineer
About the role
About Knak
Knak is the no-code email and landing page creation platform built for enterprise marketing teams. Our customers are some of the largest, most demanding brands in the world, and they trust us to power campaigns that reach millions. Behind the product is a small, high-leverage data team building the analytical foundation that every department, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, and Security, depends on to make decisions.
About the role
This is the first Data Engineer hire at Knak, and the role is foundational for Knak's Data Infrastructure and AI enablement strategy. Snowflake holds the company's product usage, customer, pipeline, revenue, and behavioral data, but most of the company can't get to it without routing through one or two people. Our goal is that anyone at Knak can access the data they need from wherever they work through internal AI agents and champion-built tools. None of that is possible today because the data layer underneath doesn't exist.
You will architect and own the governed query layer that fixes this: the per-department Snowflake views, the PII scrubbing logic, the schema documentation, and the connection standards that let analysts, AI agents, and downstream tools across the company query data safely and self-serve. This is a senior IC role with architectural ownership, not a maintenance role. The work is greenfield, cross-functional, and directly tied to a 90-day implementation plan with executive visibility.
You will set technical direction in partnership with the Director of Data & Analytics, work directly with department leaders (VP Customer Success, CMO, VP Sales, CFO, Head of Security) to scope and prioritize view requirements, and partner with DevOps on connection patterns. You will be expected to make the hard architectural calls (what to expose, what to scrub, what to deprecate) and to defend those decisions to engineering and executive stakeholders. The technical foundation you build in your first six months will shape how every future agent, dashboard, and analytical product at Knak gets built, and you will help shape the data team as it grows.
What you will do
- Power the AI Champion Program. The data layer you build directly determines whether the company's AI ambitions land or stall. Customer Success's automated EBR generation, Marketing's outbound qualification engine and lifecycle Slack bot, Sales' lookalike scoring, Finance's research agent, and Security's compliance matrix are all real projects, with real owners, currently blocked on governed Snowflake access.