Senior Data Product Engineer

RigUp is the source-to-pay solution built for energy. By combining purpose-built software with expert teams, we empower the world’s leading energy companies and their suppliers to work better, together. 

Learn more about how RigUp is equipping everyone in the energy ecosystem to operate with greater speed and efficiency at rigup.com

The Senior Data Product Engineer is a full-stack data professional who owns a Data Product from end-to-end, from data ingestion and pipeline design to final business insight. The role involves partnership with internal and external stakeholders across Engineering and Business teams, and the individual serves as a subject matter expert, delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions and insights. Sitting at the intersection of data engineering and product management, the Senior Data Product Engineer combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic vision, driving value-focused data product development and innovation.

Why Join Us? 

Our Data team is on a mission to turn data into products that drive real impact across the business. We’re passionate about building reliable, scalable data solutions that help teams make better decisions and move faster. If you thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy partnering closely with engineers and business leaders, and are excited about owning data products from end to end we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing:

Data Product Delivery & Optimization:

• Proactively manages stakeholder relationships across business and technical teams, regularly synthesizing feedback and needs into actionable technical plans
• Lead the design, development, and optimization of robust, scalable data pipelines for efficiency, speed, and cost
• Build and refine star schemas and advanced data models (e.g., using dbt) to establish authoritative sources of truth
• Deliver analytic “data apps” and light integration/data capture solutions as needed to meet evolving organizational priorities
• Develop impactful data visualizations, dashboards, and reusable analytics to enable deep-dive insights and “why” analysis

Stakeholder Engagement & Solution Alignment:

• Proactively engage with managers, directors, and business stakeholders to clarify ambiguous problems, capture requirements, and align on solution approaches
• Own projects from discovery through delivery within a specific business or technical domain, ensuring solutions align with the analytics and data product strategy
• Conduct user interviews and gather stakeholder feedback to deeply understand business needs; translate them into actionable features, datasets, or analytic products
• Collaborate with Data Product & Engineering leadership to identify major problem areas and opportunities, driving improvements that enhance company-wide data availability, speed, and quality
• Assess and evaluate new feature requests or technical initiatives using impact, effort, and business value frameworks; drive prioritization based on expected outcomes
• Define and track adoption and success metrics for delivered data products; iterate based on usage data and direct stakeholder feedback

Enablement, Governance & Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers and lead cross-functional project teams, elevating both data engineering and product practices
• Empower business users by coaching them in self-service analytics, troubleshooting complex issues, and advancing data literacy across the organization
• Stay current with evolving industry trends, technologies, and approaches in end-to-end data engineering and analytics; contribute recommendations to evolve internal methods
• Champion user perspectives within engineering, and represent technical constraints or opportunities to business stakeholders while balancing feasibility and impact
• Regularly present product updates and project outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and transparency
• Model and promote company standards for data quality, stewardship, and product enablement in all team initiatives

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience 
• 5+ years of years of proven experience in business analytics, data engineering, or comparable data roles
• Expert proficiency in SQL/Python with a proven ability to aggregate, gather, and manipulate data, and contribute to data pipeline building
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with large and disparate data sets, including data collection processes, data modeling, data analysis, and writing reports on findings of the research
• Significant experience with creating & presenting management dashboards and reports in data visualization/business intelligence tools (e.g. Sigma, Tableau, PowerBI, HEX, Jupyter notebooks, etc.)
• Experience with data modeling, and contributing to data pipelines
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as the ability to develop concise and effective presentations tailored to specific audiences at all levels of the organization
• Strong organizational, planning, quantitative and analytical skills; strategic and creative thinking with keen business judgment, focus, and ability to see the "big picture"
• Comfort in a dynamic, fast-moving, Agile, and matrix work environment

Additional experience preferred, but not required:

• Experience with Scrum or Kanban development methodologies
• Experience with utilizing code repositories (ie. GitHub)
• Exposure to advanced analytics techniques, ie. machine learning

Essential Job Functions:

• Regular, on-time attendance
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to use office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone
• Ability to use office computer programs such as e-mail, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Constantly remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods
• Ability to manipulate office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone

More than a job:

Between now and 2050, global energy demand is forecasted to rise nearly 50%, which is a staggering number. With every step forward - AI, electrification, you name it - that bar may still get higher. RigUp is uniquely positioned to empower the biggest industry in the world to work smarter - and move faster - in the race to rise to this challenge. The world depends on it.

We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters your growth. We use data to drive our decisions and improve the experience of the workers and clients we serve. With mutual respect for each other, we continually collaborate to find the best solution.

We support you with:

For eligible roles:

• Flexible paid time off for full-time employees
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Telehealth 
• 401(k) with company matching contribution
• Flexible remote work support where applicable
• WFH Contribution 
• Wellness allowance
• Calm App
• Learning opportunities 
• Financial planning support
• Parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• Opportunity to earn bonus, commission, and/or equity
• Onsite Gym

RigUp is committed to providing an environment where all people feel belonging, mutual respect, and the freedom to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, educational background, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team.

Who we are:

What began as a workforce management platform for Oil & Gas has since grown to serve the biggest companies in energy across both workforce and vendor management, absorbing much of the supply chain complexity these energy companies face and making it easier, faster, and safer to get work done. To date, RigUp has raised over $750M in funding from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Brookfield, and Baillie Gifford, along with others, and will continue to use these investments for strategic growth. 

We’d love to share more through the interview process and look forward to learning more about your journey.