Data Product Engineering Manager

Zoro.com; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

Paid parental leave

Wellbeing resources

Tuition reimbursement

401K with employer match

Employee discounts

Office perks and skyline views

Job summary

Zoro.com is seeking an engineering manager to lead a data engineering team building streams, services, and data platforms. You will stay hands-on weekly, coach engineers, and partner with tech leads and product managers to set direction while supporting delivery and production readiness.

You will manage one to two data product teams, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, and help shape architecture, testing, and observability. This hybrid Chicago role offers onsite collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineers who build production backend services, APIs, internal platforms, or distributed apps.
• Experience leading engineers embedded in product teams without direct reporting lines.
• Technical depth to review designs and foresee production issues.
• Experience building a healthy on-call practice and integrating operations into engineering.
• Track record of growing engineers through promotions and expanded scope.
• Experience hiring, calibrating bars, and closing candidates.
• Familiarity with data systems: pipelines, analytical platforms, data modeling, or large-scale data movement.
• Practical use of AI in their own work with informed opinions on its reliability.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of software engineers across one to two data product teams.
• Partner with tech leads and product managers to set direction and enable sound technical decisions.
• Maintain engineering standards: design quality, interfaces, testing, observability, and production readiness.
• Own delivery predictability, on-call health, and platform operations for the team.
• Lead hiring, performance, compensation, and calibration for engineers.
• Develop per-engineer development plans aligned to the team's technical roadmap.
• Escalate and resolve priority conflicts when delivery capacity is strained.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering adoption and share learnings across data org.
• Participate in design reviews and stay close enough to systems to form informed opinions.
• Communicate team constraints clearly to stakeholders outside engineering.

Skills

People leadership

Influence without authority

Communication

Product partnership

Judgment

AI experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Zoro.com is seeking an engineering manager to lead a data engineering team building streams, services, and data platforms. You will stay hands-on weekly, coach engineers, and partner with tech leads and product managers to set direction while supporting delivery and production readiness.

You will manage one to two data product teams, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, and help shape architecture, testing, and observability. This hybrid Chicago role offers onsite collaboration and growth.