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Business Intelligence Engineering Manager

Dropbox
Remote
United States

Role Description

Weโ€™re looking for a Business Intelligence Manager to lead a high-impact analytics team that partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Go-to-Market to drive insights, scale operations, and inform strategic decisions.

This is a hybrid leadership role that blends analytics, people management, and operational excellence. Youโ€™ll be responsible for guiding the teamโ€™s roadmap, improving how we prioritize and execute analytics work, and helping senior leadership plan and track progress on key business initiatives. Youโ€™ll also act as a trusted partner to the Director of Analyticsโ€”helping connect the dots across planning, performance reviews, and stakeholder communication.

An ideal candidate is both technically strong and operationally savvy: equally comfortable optimizing a data model as they are leading a quarterly business review or defining the analytics strategy for the next planning cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing Business Intelligence teamโ€”defining clear goals, coaching for growth, and fostering a collaborative, impact-oriented culture.
  • Define the BI strategy and roadmap in partnership with the Director of Analytics and cross-functional leadership.
  • Drive alignment between analytics priorities and company objectives.
  • Manage the teamโ€™s Jira process and analytics pipeline, ensuring requests are efficiently triaged, prioritized, and tracked from intake to delivery.
  • Identify and implement process improvements to make team operations more scalable and proactiveโ€”shifting focus from ad hoc requests to strategic, high-leverage work.
  • Maintain a centralized repository of analytics projects and deliverables, ensuring visibility and accountability across leadership and stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with the Director of Analytics to support quarterly business reviews, planning cycles, and goal-setting processes.
  • Help prepare performance metrics, dashboards, and summaries for business and strategy reviews.
  • Collaborate on writing planning documents, filling in key metrics, and synthesizing input from across the business.
  • Proactively connect with stakeholders to gather updates, align expectations, and communicate progress.
  • Partner strategically with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into analytical questions and actionable insights.
  • Oversee development of data models, pipelines, and visualizations that empower stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.
  • Maintain high standards for data quality, governance, and documentation.
  • Champion storytelling through dataโ€”helping teams understand not just what the data says, but why it matters.

Requirements

  • 8โ€“10+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, or Data Engineering, including at least 2โ€“3 years managing analysts or BI engineers.
  • Proven success leading analytics initiatives that drive measurable business impact.
  • Experience managing team operations, prioritization systems (e.g., Jira), and project pipelines.
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI).
  • Deep understanding of data modeling best practices and data warehouse design.
  • Experience in cloud environments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) is a plus.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skillsโ€”able to simplify complex data into clear business narratives.
  • Excellent organization, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strategic thinker with a hands-on mindset; thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Highly detail-oriented and comfortable juggling multiple cross-functional initiatives.
  • Bachelorโ€™s degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related).
  • Masterโ€™s degree is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in a SaaS or consumer technology environment.
  • Prior experience in an analytics operations, business planning, or โ€œchief of staffโ€ function.
  • Familiarity with OKR processes, business review cadences, or strategic planning frameworks.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$177,500โ€”$240,100 USD
US Zone 3
$157,800โ€”$213,400 USD