Data Platform Engineering Manager (Hybrid NYC)

Equal Opportunity Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

401(k)

FSA/HSA

Vacation policy

Work-from-anywhere days

Public holidays observed

Job summary

Stepful, a workforce platform, seeks an Engineering Manager, Data in New York, NY. You will lead a small team of data analysts and engineers, own pipelines, warehouses, and BI tooling, and drive metrics across student outcomes and business performance.

This hands-on role blends leadership with coding and model-building to scale our data function as we grow beyond 40,000 students. You'll partner with Growth, Product, Operations, and Finance, and work in a hybrid NYC office (3 days/week).

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.

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.

Skills

Data analytics

Data engineering

Team leadership

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Communication

Tools

dbt

Snowflake/BigQuery

Airflow

Looker/Metabase

Job description

Stepful, a workforce platform, seeks an Engineering Manager, Data in New York, NY. You will lead a small team of data analysts and engineers, own pipelines, warehouses, and BI tooling, and drive metrics across student outcomes and business performance.

This hands-on role blends leadership with coding and model-building to scale our data function as we grow beyond 40,000 students. You'll partner with Growth, Product, Operations, and Finance, and work in a hybrid NYC office (3 days/week).