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Analytics Engineer

Data

Prolific

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space—we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

The role

As a Analytics Engineer in the Data Infrastructure Team at Prolific, you'll be at the forefront of transforming and maintaining Prolific's data infrastructure. Your work will be instrumental in redesigning and scaling our data stack, ensuring data pipelines are robust, efficient, and reliable. By owning and optimizing our analytics codebase, you'll empower our BI-focused teams to deliver valuable insights to the entire organization, while driving data accuracy and accessibility. You'll also bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, making sure that complex data solutions are clearly understood and aligned with business goals.

What you’ll bring to the role

  • Expertise in dbt & SQL: Deep experience with dbt and SQL to design, build, and maintain scalable data models.
  • Cloud Technology Knowledge: Strong familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP etc
  • Data Accuracy Focus: Passion for ensuring high data quality through tests/assertions and robust documentation.
  • Commercial Acumen: Ability to understand business needs and communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Mentorship Ability: Advocate for best practices in logging and data modeling that supports robust and effective analysis, reporting , and experimentation.
  • Collaboration: Skilled at working cross-functionally and translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights for the business.
  • Process-Driven: Proficiency in designing repeatable and scalable workflows for data transformation.

What you’ll be doing in the role

  • Building Data Models: Create complex dbt models, custom macros, and reusable packages. Optimise transformations and implement robust testing strategies to ensure data integrity and model performance.
  • Ownership: Monitoring and maintaining dbt workflow jobs, ensuring smooth data refreshes and up-to-date pipelines.You will also be responsible for data models for BI analytics & company level reporting
  • Ensuring Data Accuracy: Writing tests and assertions to validate data integrity and consistency across models.
  • Documenting and Standardizing: Creating and maintaining thorough documentation of dbt processes to ensure best practices within the BI team.
  • Translating Complex Data Concepts: Acting as a key communicator, translating technical data issues into understandable business terms for stakeholders.
  • Mentoring Team Members: Supporting junior analysts and data engineers, especially in setting up experimentation platforms and data best practices.
  • Collaborating Across Teams: Working closely with the product, engineering, and BI teams to ensure data infrastructure supports evolving business needs.

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.

Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.

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Company benefits

Bank holiday swaps
Company wide holidays/offsites
Early finish Fridays
Enhanced maternity leave – 13 weeks full paid, 26 weeks 50% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full paid
Enhanced sick pay
Mental health days
L&D budget – £1000 per year
Dog friendly co-working space
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Pregnancy loss leave
Open to part-time employees
Health insurance – Bupa & Medicash Health Plan (Opt in)
Life insurance
Lunch and learns
Employee discounts
Employee assistance programme
Optional unpaid leave
Salary sacrifice
Work from home budget
Enhanced pension match/contribution
£1000 yearly budget for education, growth, and training.
Taxable Stipend of £150 a month per person, £1800 a year (before tax).

We asked employees of Prolific what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
86%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
78%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
86%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
81%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
82%
Employees feel that the diversity, and the efforts to improve and maintain it, are great
Inclusion
81%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
81%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
87%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
76%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Prolific

Company employees

168

Gender diversity (male:female:non-binary)

32:38:30

Funding levels

$32,000,000

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

United States

Office Locations

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
1st – DeepTech, Data & AI

1st – DeepTech, Data & AI

Industry awards 2023
3rd

3rd

Flexa100 2023
1st – Research & Data

1st – Research & Data

Industry awards 2022