
Lightdash is an open source BI alternative to Looker, built for analysts on top of the modern data tools they already use and love. Lightdash brings your visual layer together with your data modelling and transformation layer, creating a single source of truth for data metrics for teams.

Lightdash is an open source BI alternative to Looker, built for analysts on top of the modern data tools they already use and love. Lightdash brings your visual layer together with your data modelling and transformation layer, creating a single source of truth for data metrics for teams.
What they do: Open-source, dbt-native BI platform with self-serve analytics and a developer-friendly semantic layer
Business model: Community (self-hosted) edition plus managed Lightdash Cloud
Founders: Hamzah Chaudhary and Oliver Laslett
Recent funding: $11M Series A led by Accel (Oct 2024); prior seed led by Accel (~$8.4M, 2022)
Employees: Approximately 27
Business intelligence and analytics for modern data stacks (dbt-centric metric consistency and self-serve reporting).
Software Development
$8.4M
Seed round reported Oct 6, 2022
$11M
Series A announced Oct 2024
“Accel led both seed and Series A; other investors include Y Combinator, Moonfire Ventures, Shopify Ventures, and Operator Partners”
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About Lightdash Lightdash is an open source BI tool that instantly turns your dbt project into a full-stack BI platform.
We’re building the best BI tool for analytics engineers by letting them manage everything as code, from the comfort of their text editor and command line. Once the data team has written the metrics, then Lightdash enables self-serve for the entire business, so your data is accessible for the whole team.
We’re helping data teams build data-driven companies so they can make better decisions, faster.
How we work at Lightdash
About The Role At Lightdash, we’re obsessed with the success of our users. Our fast and technical analytics support is one of our superpowers today. It covers everything from building dashboards and writing SQL to analytics engineering best practice. If you have a passion for helping teams win with data, we’re looking for an Analytics Engineering Advocate to join the Lightdash team.
Our users’ experience of Lightdash goes beyond our product features and includes every touchpoint and interaction they have with the community and team. In this role, you’ll be the voice for our community and responsible for our users’ questions related to Lightdash, best practice in BI and analytics engineering.
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Requirements:
KPIs owned by the role (WIP):
💜 We believe that to build a product that works for a diverse group of people, we need a diverse team. So, we strongly encourage candidates of all different perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and identities to apply. We’re committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability. And once you join us, we’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
Compensation Range: £65K - £100K