Senior Program Manager

The Weather Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Medical insurance options

401K match

Job summary

The Weather Company is seeking a Technical Program Manager who will oversee the instrumentation of consumer data collection. This role involves leading data quality initiatives and ensuring the integrity of collected data.

Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience in related fields and a strong understanding of various data systems and frameworks. This position offers a flexible time-off program, comprehensive medical benefits, and the chance to work in a leading technology environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• 3+ years of managing consumer data from digital applications.
• Understanding of data privacy regulations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define analytics requirements.
• Implement data tracking solutions across systems.
• Ensure data quality and integrity.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Communication skills

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Google Analytics

AWS S3

Job description

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job Brief

As a Technical Program Manager for Consumer Data at The Weather Company, you will guide the instrumentation of consumer data collection that supports reporting, analytics, and machine learning use cases. You will lead our consumer data quality initiatives across our digital ecosystem, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and accessibility of consumer data collected from our applications and websites. You will also bridge the gap between business analytics needs & technical data infrastructure while collaborating closely with front‑end development teams to implement robust data tracking solutions.

Impact You'll Make

• Collaborate with stakeholders, such as product, marketing, and content managers, to understand business analytics requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Work with enterprise data architects to define data plans, tracking requirements, and specifications for downstream consumer behavior analytics.
• Partner with front‑end application developers to implement comprehensive event tracking systems.
• Review and approve tracking implementation to ensure data consistency and accuracy.
• Guide data quality analysts to investigate potential or existing data issues and work cross‑functionally to resolve them.
• Work with data scientists, data and BI engineers, and business analytics teams to ensure data accessibility and usability.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive data quality standards and governance frameworks for consumer data.
• Design and implement data validation processes to ensure accuracy and completeness of consumer behavioral data.
• Develop automated data quality checks and alerting systems, such as data quality dashboards.
• Establish best practices for data instrumentation across web and mobile applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of consumer data collection frameworks.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for data infrastructure and processes.
• Ensure data lineage documentation and metadata management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, software engineering, or related technical roles.
• 3+ years of experience managing consumer data from digital applications and websites.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Experience with event tracking frameworks and integrating tracking among multiple partners to collect data across systems.
• Understanding of web and mobile analytics implementations (Amplitude, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel).
• Understanding of data privacy regulations and their impact on data collection practices.
• Understanding of A/B testing frameworks and experimentation platforms.
• Experience with cloud‑based data lake solutions (AWS S3/Glue/Athena, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage/BigQuery).
• Proven experience leading technical teams and cross‑functional projects.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Project management experience with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off program.
• Variety of medical insurance options, including a $0 cost premium employee coverage.
• Benefits effective on day 1 of employment, including a competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans.
• Progressive family plan benefits.
• An opportunity to work for a global and industry‑leading technology company.
• Impactful work in a collaborative environment.

As set forth in The Weather Company’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.