Hiring: AI Data Readiness Lead Company: Deepgram Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:21:13 Target Skills & Keywords : Cloudflare, Iceberg, LLM, SQL, Twilio, dbt About the job Experience: •000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram. •5+ years in analytics, analytics engineering, or a closely related field Required Skills: •Analytics is only as trustworthy as the definitions underneath it. As more reporting and decision-making moves to AI agents, the cost of ambiguous or conflicting metric definitions compounds, an agent applies the wrong rule confidently, at scale, and nobody catches it. •This role exists to prevent that. You will own what our numbers mean, make those definitions enforceable in the systems that serve them, and verify that both people and agents are using them. •This is a governance-first role with real technical depth. You will spend your time defining, implementing, and validating, building pipelines and developing agentic reporting are secondary. •Establish canonical definitions for the metrics the business runs on. Where competing versions exist, convene the owners, document the disagreement, and drive to a decision. Publish changes with a clear statement of what moves and why. •Implement agreed definitions in the semantic layer and data catalog so they are applied by the system rather than described in a document. Retire superseded versions. •Audit the reporting estate, retire assets with no audience, and establish ownership for what remains. •Build data quality checks/agents. •Freshness, uniqueness, referential integrity, and cross-system reconciliation — with failures routed to named owners/agents who act on them. Qualifications: •Strong SQL, including comfort reverse-engineering undocumented transformation logic written by others •Direct ownership of a semantic or metrics layer in production — dbt, Cube, LookML, or equivalent. Not just usage: responsibility for what went into it and why •Demonstrated ability to resolve conflicting metric definitions across functions and land a decision •Clear written communication. Most of your output is documentation others must trust without re-deriving it •Comfort deprecating and removing work that others built •Exposure to audit readiness, SOX, or financial controls environments •Consumption or usage-based business models, where committed, consumed, invoiced, and recognised revenue are genuinely different numbers •Having joined a function early, before process existed •: We're aware of individuals impersonating Deepgram recruiters. All legitimate Deepgram recruiting communication comes from an @ •Email address. If you've received a message claiming to be Deepgram, please forward it to careers@deepgram.com. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!