Job Overview
👋 A little about us We’re building the best platform for authoring, publishing, and maintaining world-class docs. Close to 40,000 sign-ups per month , over 1 00k Monthly Active Users , used by 2M+ people and thousands of teams like Zoom, FedEx, Nvidia, Snyk, and Google. We’re profitable , backed by P9 Capital, Notion Capital, and Fly VC, and our amazing team is spread across 15 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia.
🙌 What will you be doing? This is not a traditional data role.
You won’t just build dashboards. You won’t just maintain pipelines. You’ll own problems end-to-end , using data to drive product and business impact.
• Run user research (interviews, feedback loops, data analysis) and translate feedback into insights that allow for actionable growth opportunities
• Work directly with stakeholders to frame problems, challenge assumptions, and prioritize what matters
• Design and run experiments, analyses, and campaigns to drive growth and product adoption
• Build lightweight data applications or workflows to enable faster decision-making
• Continuously improve how we structure and expose data across the company, be highly involved with our data modeling layer
• Connect tools and systems (product, marketing, sales) into a coherent data ecosystem
• Push the team toward clarity and simplicity in how we measure and reason about the business
• You’ll operate across commercial and product functions— with a strong bias toward action and impact .
Important to note is that this is a foundational role.
🧰 What environment will you be working in? Our stack today:
• GCP (BigQuery, Composer)
• dbt (Cloud / via Cursor)
• Replit (data apps & internal tooling)
• Tableau / Count (analysis & exploration)
• Amplitude, Segment (product & event data)
We don’t expect you to know everything, but you should be comfortable owning and evolving a modern data stack .
🧠 What we value Your product and business mindset
You think in terms of problems and outcomes , not just queries or models. You’re comfortable talking to stakeholders, pushing back, and making trade-offs.
Your ability to operate end-to-end
You can go from:
• messy question → structured problem
• raw data → usable model
• insight → shipped action
You don’t get stuck in one layer.
Your pragmatism
You know when to:
• build vs hack
• go deep vs move fast
• say no vs explore
You optimize for impact, not perfection .
Your technical depth
You’re strong in:
• SQL and data modeling
• working with modern data stacks
• navigating data pipelines and systems
You don’t need to be a pure data engineer — but you’re not afraid of technical complexity.
Your communication skills
You enjoy:
• managing diverse stakeholders
• bringing alignment
• translating challenges to growth promoting solutions
🚫 What this role is not • Not a reporting role focused on dashboards
• Not a pure data engineering role
• Not a traditional analyst role doing long, static analyses
✨ You might be a good fit if You have experience with:
• a high growth start up environment, especially PLG
• working as or close to an analytics engineer / data generalist
• working in a product, marketing or growth-focused data role
You enjoy:
• ambiguity
• ownership
• figuring things out from first principles
• talk to customers
You’ve felt frustrated being:
• too far from business decisions
• stuck maintaining dashboards
• or limited to one layer of the stack
📋 Hiring process We aim to keep things simple and relevant:
• Intro call (fit & expectations)
• Deep dive with the hiring manager (Head of Data)
• Practical discussion / case
• Final conversation with the team
🚀 Why join us? You’ll be one of the few people at GitBook owning data as a product and a lever for growth .
This is a role where:
• your work directly shapes decisions
• your scope is wide
• and your impact is visible
👥 Join GitBook at a pivotal time as we evolve our product and team. This is a chance to shape our product, craft, and culture .