Engineering Manager, Data Platforms - Wirecutter

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The Data Platforms team is responsible for the governance, processes, architecture, storage, reliability, accuracy, monitoring, and infrastructure surrounding our internal data sets. The team has an organization-wide impact by capturing the data to inform the user experience, product, editorial, growth, and financial decisions at Wirecutter and the New York Times.  

The Engineering Manager for Data Platforms manages the data engineers on the team and is accountable for the team’s roadmap and results. You will be expected to delegate by default, collaborate with stakeholders and leadership to set direction, provide constraints, prioritize, and communicate progress, changes, and outcomes for the data team’s work. The Engineering Manager for Data Platforms is also expected to provide a best-in-class culture to support and grow their multiple direct reports through mentorship, coaching, and advocacy.  

This is a management-track position which will report directly to the Director of Platform Engineering.

 

Responsibilities:

• Performance management, professional development, and overall health of a diverse team of 4+ data engineers.

• Hiring and onboarding members to a diverse and inclusive team.

• Cultivation of an inclusive team culture with a respectful and collaborative environment

• Accountability and development of the roadmap, prioritization and re-prioritization decisions, celebrations, process, and end results of the data team.

• Defining success, setting constraints, highlighting potential trade-offs, and enabling the team to collaborate on cross team dependencies.

• Building strong cross-functional relationships by transparently communicating scope, trade-offs, timing, uncertainty, and prioritization decisions to stakeholders.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• You have 3+ years of experience in software or data engineering. 

• You have 3+ years of experience working on challenging problems with ETL processes, complex data queries, data architecture, and OLAP data modeling.

• You have 3+ years of experience advocating for technical needs, team members, and steering multiple stakeholders when needed.

• You have 2+ years of experience leading and facilitating decision making for technical teams.

• You have 2+ years of managing distributed, or hybrid, teams.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• You are excited to play a pivotal role in Wirecutter’s mission, innovation, and growth.

• You find immense value in the collective success of your team.

• You have experience managing data sets for business reporting tools.

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About Wirecutter

Wirecutter strives to be the most trusted product recommendation service on the internet. We obsessively test and report on thousands of items each year to recommend the best of everything. Our goal is to save you time and eliminate the stress of shopping, whether you’re looking for everyday gear or gifts for loved ones. We work with total editorial independence. That means nothing appears on the site as a recommendation unless our writers and editors have deemed it the best through our rigorous reporting and testing. Wirecutter was founded in September 2011 and acquired by The New York Times Company in October 2016. Wirecutter is mission-driven and reader-supported; learn more about us here.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$152,000—$180,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities