Join us in shaping a future of Automotive Commerce. Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.
Our Data and AI Platform team is embarking on a transformational journey, building innovative and integrated services that redefine how we deliver value to our customers and consumers alike. This is a rare opportunity to join a data-first company at a genuine inflection point — with strong leadership, a clear vision, and an enormous amount of meaningful work to be done. For a data professional who wants to build, create, and make a real impact — this is the place and the moment.
As a ‘BI Analyst - Semantic Layer’ you will play the role of a Semantic Layer Engineer on our BI (Business Intelligence)Team. You will work daily with Enterprise Analytics, domain business stakeholders across multiple platforms (Marketplace - cars.com and Dealer Inspire), and the Data Engineering team who owns the infrastructure your definitions run on. This is a small but high-visibility team where the definitions you certify will be used company-wide almost immediately. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of our platforms and drive meaningful change at scale, making a lasting impact within the automotive industry.
We’re on a mission to build something truly foundational at Cars Commerce. This isn’t a maintenance role — this is a build-from-the-ground-up, make-your-mark opportunity! We are standing up Cars Commerce’s first governed semantic/metrics layer and activating Atlan, its data catalog. The Semantic Layer Engineer owns the business content that lives on top of that platform: what every metric, dimension, and glossary term actually means, who’s accountable for it, and making sure that meaning stays consistent everywhere it shows up — in the semantic layer, in our enterprise reporting tool, and in Atlan’s glossary. The Data Engineering team owns the infrastructure these tools run on; you own the definitions, the governance process, and the relationships with the business that make those definitions trustworthy.
This is a hands-on technical role, not a policy-writing role. You will personally author and maintain metric and dimension definitions as code in whichever semantic layer — not hand specifications to someone else to implement. At the same time, you will be spending time with business stakeholders: defining what “active dealer” or a given KPI actually means, reconciling competing definitions across departments, and building the literacy so people trust and use the governed numbers instead of rebuilding their own version in a spreadsheet.
Cars Commerce also has meaningful unmanaged taxonomy debt in core product data. You’ll apply the same definition and hierarchy discipline you bring to metrics to help establish canonical taxonomy content for this kind of categorical data, partnering with the teams who own execution and productionization outside the semantic layer itself. Real ownership. Real impact.
Why You’ll Be Excited About This Role