Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Summary

Join ecobee, a rapidly growing global tech company, as a Senior Engineering Manager in Data Science. Lead a cross-functional team building innovative machine learning services for smart homes. You will be responsible for large-scale solutions integrating products and services across the ecosystem. Your expertise will shape future strategy, drive system architecture, and establish best practices. The role involves fostering a positive work environment, hiring and developing a team, building scalable services, and managing the ML development lifecycle. Ecobee offers competitive salaries, health benefits, a progressive parental top-up program, flexible work arrangements, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• A well established history of building efficient and scalable systems and services for machine learning products
• Experience managing a team of engineers
• Expertise in building low latency, high performance services
• Experience with implementing end-to-end scalable solutions in the cloud
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
• Experience with agile and other program management methodologies

Responsibilities

• Foster a positive, supportive and inclusive work environment
• Hire and develop a team of software engineers and machine learning engineers—providing coaching, mentoring, motivation, and technical guidance
• Build high-quality, efficient and scalable services powered by our machine learning products
• Integrate data science services with products and systems across our ecosystem
• Lead system architecture design that reduces complexity and enables extendibility and reusability
• Manage the full ML development life cycle and tooling – from problem framing, data wrangling, and model development, to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
• Continuously improve engineering practices—balancing speed, quality, and business impact
• Build effective agile practices that deliver robust solutions on time and on budget
• Lead execution of project plans, delivery commitments and risk mitigation
• Help evaluate the feasibility of initiatives through quick prototyping with respect to performance, quality, time and cost
• Build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams and contribute to deliver unique customer experiences

Preferred Qualifications

• You proactively identify upcoming risks, issues and bottlenecks within your team and across departmental boundaries
• You thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and high-stakes environment
• You are a smart, curious, and analytical person with a bias for action

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Health benefits
• Progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off)
• Flexible hours
• Office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work environment
• Professional learning budget