Engineering Manager, Analytics Data Products

The New York Times•New York, NY

13h•$160,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analytics Data Products (ADP) team is an enablement team within the Data Platform mission. It supports Product Engineering teams across The New York Times in creating, operating, and stewarding data products through onboarding workflows, developer experience, modeling expertise, and data-lifecycle standards. The team also builds shared behavioral data products, including Pageviews, Sessions, and client-side Interactions, to ensure core reader behaviors are measured consistently across missions and standalone experiences. Mission teams remain accountable for their domain data, while ADP works alongside them as a forward-deployed team to help them onboard and publish. The Engineering Manager will lead the team, own its developer experience and tooling, oversee roadmap execution and technical decisions, and manage budgets and cloud cost attribution. The role reports to the Senior Director of Data Platform and is based in the New York City headquarters in a hybrid arrangement, with an expectation to come into the office at least three days per week.

Requirements

At least 1 year of formal people management experience.
At least 4 years building and supporting production data pipelines.
Demonstrated experience managing or leading technical teams with diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
Experience enabling successful collaboration across engineering teams and bringing engineers together to achieve shared goals.
Ability to assist technically with code reviews, design discussions, and analysis as needed.
Experience using SQL to transform data and working knowledge of at least one of Python, Java, or Go.
Knowledge of relational, columnar, and key-value storage technologies, as well as data modeling for analytics.
Passion for The New York Times' mission and desire to contribute to its journalism.

Nice To Haves

Experience building developer tooling, onboarding workflows, or internal platforms adopted by other engineering teams.
Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and event instrumentation.
Experience leading migrations or retiring legacy systems.

Responsibilities

Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and high productivity.
Own developer experience and tooling, including onboarding, CLI, templates, validation, and automation, and define and track success metrics such as producer adoption and data reliability.
Oversee roadmap execution, provide architectural guidance, and make technical decisions.
Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, and a cost attribution model for the team's cloud solutions.
Partner with product managers and stakeholders to define requirements and manage change while systematically retiring legacy systems.
Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to The New York Times' mission.