Senior Analytics Engineer, Business Intelligence

Location: New York, New York, United States

Department: Finance

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 38 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

As CLEAR continues to scale, we’re deepening our investment in the data ecosystem that powers our decision-making. We’re looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer, Business Intelligence to own the presentation layer of our data stack. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role for someone who blends exquisite data modeling craft, deep familiarity with tools like dbt and Looker, a knowledge of the state of the art, and a passion for designing data structures that enable intuitive self-service. 

You’ll define the semantic and analytical layers that drive clarity across the business, transforming complex data into clear, trusted metrics and models that everyone at CLEAR can rely on.

What You'll Do:

• Own and evolve the presentation and semantic layers: design, build, and optimize data models that serve as the foundation for Analytics at CLEAR. Develop metrics that drive a consistent, opinionated view of business performance across Finance, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams.
• Partner with data engineering teams to define the transformation logic (via dbt or similar frameworks) that connects raw data to consumable business views, optimize pipelines to improve query performance, and ensure models align with best practices.
• Own a roadmap for enabling AI-powered analytics driving improved data documentation and a path for exposing our semantic layer to AI models. 
• Improve self-service rates by building intuitive data structures, reusable views, and clear metric definitions that empower teams to answer their own questions.
• Mentor analysts and analytics engineers, guiding them in data modeling best practices, BI design, and stakeholder engagement.

What you’re great at:

• 6+ years of experience working in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data engineering roles within a modern cloud data warehouse environment.
• Expert-level SQL: you can structure models for clarity, reuse, and performance at scale. 
• Proven experience working with modern data stack technologies, including Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and Looker.
• Deep experience with BI tools including semantic layer design, metric standardization, and the enablement of AI-driven analytics.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling and data warehousing principles. You are always thinking about performance and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with business impact designing models that are as intuitive for stakeholders as they are efficient under the hood.
• Track record of driving BI and self-service, creating environments where data users can confidently explore and analyze on their own.
• Strong communication and influence skills, able to partner effectively across technical and business domains to align on data strategy and definitions.
• Proactive ownership and curiosity, always seeking opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale how data is modeled and delivered.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

• High-impact: You’ll build the analytics foundations that will guide decision-making across CLEAR.
• Craft and influence: This role blends technical ownership with the opportunity to shape how data is understood company-wide.
• Mission-driven culture: You’ll help build experiences that make life simpler and more secure for millions.
• Autonomy: You’ll own and lead initiatives end-to-end, mentor others, and establish best practices that scale with the company.
• Culture that moves: We are a team that values curiosity, iteration, direct feedback, and risk taking.
• Great benefits & growth: Competitive compensation, liquid equity, catered lunches, and good vibes.

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members who are motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our hybrid work environment provides flexibility. In our offices, you’ll enjoy benefits like meals and snacks. We invest in your well-being and learning & development with our stipend and reimbursement programs. 

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. 

The total compensation range for this role is $225,000-$300,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

This range represents the combined base salary and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.

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