Engineering Manager, Data
Hybrid (New York City, NY)$180k - $225kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Engineering Manager, Data at Stepful to own the data function (infrastructure, analytics, and insights) across the company, lead a team of three data analysts/engineers, stay hands-on with code and models, and drive metrics and governance to support student outcomes and business decisions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three data analysts and engineers, setting the standard for rigor and craft
- Own Stepful's data platform end to end — pipelines, warehouse, transformation layer, and BI tooling — and its reliability and scalability
- Define and maintain the company's core metrics across the student journey (enrollment, engagement, completion, certification, placement) and business performance (CAC, LTV, retention)
- Build dashboards and self-serve analytics that put trustworthy data in every team's hands
- Partner with Growth and Product on experimentation — design, instrumentation, and analysis of A/B tests
- Deliver deep-dive analyses that shape strategic decisions, from program design to budget allocation
- Stay hands-on: write production SQL and Python, review your team's work, and take on the hardest technical problems yourself
- Establish data governance and quality practices that scale with the company
Qualifications
- 7+ years of data experience across analytics and data engineering, with at least 2+ years managing a team
- Proven success as a player-coach — you set direction and manage people while still shipping your own work
- Expert-level SQL and strong Python, with hands-on experience across the modern data stack (e.g., dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery, Airflow, Looker/Metabase)
- Strong product and business sense — you connect data work to outcomes, not just deliverables
- Experience designing and analyzing experiments in a high-growth environment
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to make complex findings clear to non-technical stakeholders
Skills
Required:SQLPythondbtSnowflake/BigQueryLooker/MetabaseData governanceLeadership/People management
Nice to have:Airflow
Benefits
- Meaningful Equity Stake
- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
- 401(k)
- FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
- Open vacation policy
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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