Engineering Manager — AI-Powered Brand Data Platform

iSpot; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

iSpot in Bellevue, WA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Brands Team responsible for ingesting, processing, and organizing massive media data streams. You will own end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingestion to content catalog, with accountability for software quality, frontend, and the ad catalog.

You will translate platform strategy into well-scoped sprints, coach engineers, and Champion AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing high-performing engineering teams delivering production-grade, distributed software at scale.
• Deep domain expertise in big data architectures — high-throughput ingestion, media metadata systems, or comparable large-scale data platforms.
• Experience embedding AI/ML into production workflows for automated tagging, identification, or content classification.
• Architectural fluency across backend data systems and the frontend technologies used to build internal tools.
• Experience defining and enforcing quality gates (automated testing frameworks, release criteria) and driving RCA-based operational improvement.
• Strong sprint-planning discipline that balances feature velocity with infrastructure stability and data integrity.
• Experience building structured, multi-dimensional growth plans for engineers and reducing single-person coverage risk across a team.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with Product, Data Science, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for upgrading and refactoring ingestion and cataloging systems to improve throughput, latency, and reduce debt.
• Embed ML/AI into content cataloging to automate identification, metadata extraction, and fingerprinting at scale.
• Ensure accuracy and reliability of large ad datasets, collaborating to evolve platform capabilities for complex attribution modeling.
• Own onboarding and maintenance of large third-party data sources (ACR, set-top-box, streaming, panel signals).
• Own architecture and usability of internal-facing tools and dashboards for internal power users.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Big data architectures

AI/ML in production

Backend/frontend architecture

Quality gates & testing

Sprint planning

Cross-functional communication

Mentoring engineers

Job description

iSpot in Bellevue, WA is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Brands Team responsible for ingesting, processing, and organizing massive media data streams. You will own end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingestion to content catalog, with accountability for software quality, frontend, and the ad catalog.

You will translate platform strategy into well-scoped sprints, coach engineers, and Champion AI-assisted development.