Senior Data Analyst - Foundation

About Placer.ai

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

Summary

The Foundation Entities Group at Placer.ai is responsible for building and maintaining the core Places database — the backbone of Placer’s data platform. We model, validate, and enrich millions of POIs and chains across the U.S. and beyond.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst to help ensure the quality, completeness, and integrity of our foundational data. You’ll work closely with data engineers, product managers, and operations teams to monitor pipelines, evaluate new data sources, design performance metrics, and derive insights that improve our entity models and customer outputs.

This role is ideal for a highly analytical and independent thinker who enjoys working with complex data ecosystems and translating messy real-world data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Data Quality & Metrics
• Define and maintain KPIs and quality metrics for POI and chain data accuracy, coverage, and freshness.
• Monitor large-scale ingestion and enrichment pipelines, identifying anomalies, data drifts, or source inconsistencies.
• Operational Analytics
• Design dashboards and tools to track data health, system performance, and SLA compliance.
• Provide visibility into the performance of automated systems and manual processes across the Foundation domain.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with engineers to validate and optimize merge, enrichment, and geocoding logic.
• Partner with product and operations to assess the impact of data changes on downstream systems and customer-facing products.
• Exploration & Research
• Evaluate new data providers, test hypotheses about data behaviors, and contribute to decision-making for third-party integrations.
• Develop data-driven recommendations to improve POI modeling and chain linkage accuracy.
  

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics, preferably with large-scale or geospatial datasets
• Proven ability to translate data into operational and business insights
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL workflows, and how data transformations impact outputs
• High data literacy and critical thinking: you understand how “data reflects reality”
• Excellent communication skills in English (Hebrew a plus)
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple teams
  
  

• Proficiency in Python (pandas, numpy, seaborn/plotly, etc.)
• Experience querying BigQuery, PostgreSQL, or similar analytical databases
• Experience with BI visualization tools (Looker, Data Studio, Tableau, etc.)
• Understanding of geo-data concepts (geohash, polygons, clustering)
  
  

• Familiarity with Spark, Airflow, or other large-scale data processing tools
• Experience working with data quality frameworks or monitoring systems
• Familiarity with Placer-like domains — mobility, location intelligence, or geospatial analytics
• Exposure to cloud environments (GCP preferred)
  
  

• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
  
  

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