Engineering Manager, Data Platform & Products

Summary

Join ActBlue, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing progressive causes, as the Engineering Manager for the Data Platform team. You will oversee a team responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting ActBlue's analytics and machine learning platform, ensuring reliable data infrastructure and seamless data flows. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, leadership, and stakeholder engagement, as you will work closely with Data Science, Analytics, and other teams to ensure the platform supports high-quality data products, robust data models, centralized dashboards, and reliable ML Ops. You will also lead and coach continual process improvement in the Data Platform team, mentor and support team members in their professional goals, and work collaboratively within the department and across ActBlue to help achieve organizational goals.

Requirements

• At least 5-7 years of experience in data engineering or related roles
• Technical experience managing an ML platform, including proactively identifying how to grow the platform to support organizational needs, particularly in areas of governance
• Experience deploying machine learning models into production, preferably using AWS SageMaker
• Familiarity with Agile development processes
• Proficiency in SQL and working with cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Redshift, PostgreSQL)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
• Motivated to find and implement pragmatic solutions for stakeholders, leveraging strong problem-solving skills
• Experience setting goals and key results (OKRs) to measure team success
• Dependability in delivering on commitments and driving projects to completion
• Experience with security, reliability, scaling, monitoring, and other aspects of production platforms; you should be able to describe, to technical detail, the flow of data into and outside of a production environment
• An inclusive, generous working style: You like to mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers

Responsibilities

• Serve as a leader in the Data Department, providing input on strategy and goals
• Own and maintain the data platform, ensuring it supports high-quality data products, robust data models, centralized dashboards, and reliable ML Ops
• Oversee the deployment of data and ML models into a production environment
• Collaborate with a variety of platform users across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Data Science, Analytics and Customer Support
• Lead and coach continual process improvement in the Data Platform team; evangelize the data platform to other teams outside of Data
• Mentor and support team members in their professional goals while maintaining an environment of psychological safety
• Coordinate with ActBlue leadership to establish measurable goals and consistent metrics
• Work collaboratively within the department and across ActBlue to help achieve organizational goals; navigating sometimes conflicting stakeholder data needs
• Assess knowledge gaps in ActBlue’s workforce and strategize filling data needs that will further institutional knowledge and information sharing
• Direct project management and delegate large, complex projects as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 3 years of staff management experience is preferred
• Experience in progressive politics or fundraising analytics
• Conceptual understanding of Customer Support systems (not a strict requirement)

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times