Zefir

Analytics Lead

Paris. Posted 3 months ago

The role

The Founding Analytics Engineer will own the data layer, including canonical models, metric definitions, and a documented semantic layer. You will enable self-serve insights for Growth, Finance, Ops, and Product while managing analytics and tracking governance.

What you will do

  • Own canonical models and metric definitions
  • Develop a documented semantic layer with Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers
  • Enable self-serve analytics for Ops, Growth, Finance, and Account Managers
  • Manage global event taxonomy and tracking roadmap
  • Implement hybrid client-side and server-side event strategy
  • Ensure consistent sync across CRMs and marketing platforms
  • Manage GDPR consent flows by design
  • Set standards for platform reliability, safety, and cost
  • Maintain tested and versioned transformations
  • Expose data to AI agents through MCPs, semantic APIs, or text-to-SQL

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years as a Data, Analytics or Platform Engineer
  • Staff or Lead exposure expected
  • Hands-on with BigQuery (or Snowflake, Redshift)
  • Hands-on with dbt or equivalent
  • Advanced SQL and data modeling
  • Python for pipelines
  • Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
  • Experience shipping event tracking and instrumentation in production
  • Experience with ingestion patterns (Fivetran, Airbyte, CDC)
  • Experience with reverse-ETL (Hightouch, Census, Segment)
  • Experience with access governance (IAM, row- and column-level security, PII tagging)
  • Fluent in English and French

Nice to have

  • Stint at a fast-moving consumer or marketplace company

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • BSPCE (Stock Options) with monthly vesting after year one over a 4-year period
  • Full healthcare coverage with Alan for team members, partners, and children
  • Office in Le Peletier, Paris (9th arrondissement)
  • Flexible remote work options
  • Swile meal card: €11 per worked day
  • Swile mobility card: €45/month
  • Monthly Mixers
  • Quarterly All Hands

About the company

Zefir is building an AI autopilot for home sales in Europe, starting in France. The company is backed by €60 million from Sequoia Capital and Kima Ventures.