Engineering Manager, Data & Analytics

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Staffbase</strong></h3> <p>We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first <strong>AI-native Employee Experience Platform</strong>. Our<strong> industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels</strong> - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.</p> <p>Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers—reaching over 14 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.<br>We are proud to be a&nbsp;<strong data-stringify-type="bold">Unicorn</strong>&nbsp;company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.</p></div><p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Engineering Manager – Data &amp; Analytics</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As Engineering Manager for our Data &amp; Analytics team, you will lead a team of 4-5 engineers while staying meaningfully hands-on as a technical player-coach. This is not a traditional management role. You are someone with a strong and senior data engineering background who genuinely wants to step into management. You will own the team's delivery, drive stakeholder alignment, and bring the technical depth needed to develop your team and keep us on the right track.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You will work closely with the Director of Engineering and product stakeholders, on sequencing, prioritization, and roadmap negotiation — with enough technical grounding to make sound decisions and mentor engineers day to day.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our environment</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Data operates on two fronts: maintaining and evolving a self-service data platform, and delivering as a product team</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">While the overall architecture direction is established for the near term, you'll shape the details and influence the technical direction as the roadmap extends into 2027 and beyond.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You are the voice on data. Driving delivery and managing the interfaces with the broader staff engineering community available to support on high-level architectural input.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Data governance for AI agents is an emerging and fast-growing priority — a technically exciting area we're starting to build into</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">What you'll be doing</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lead and develop a team of 4-5 engineers: coaching, unblocking delivery, and building a product-minded data engineering culture</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Own the team's roadmap sequencing.&nbsp; Negotiating priorities with product stakeholders, pushing back where needed, and finding constructive compromises</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mediate between platform and product demands: the team operates across data platform and product delivery simultaneously, and you will balance both</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bring hands-on experience in Data streaming to guide the team through an active transition</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Raise the bar on data modeling across the team</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Drive the cultural and technical shift toward distributed data ownership, helping product teams progressively own their own data</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">With your extensive Data Engineering experience you will collaborate with the broader staff engineering community on cross-cutting architectural decisions where needed</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Build the foundations for AI data governance — as agentic analytics becomes customer-facing, you will need to think through guardrails, access control, and safety for AI agents interacting with data</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">What you need to be successful</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Proven experience at Staff Engineer level (or equivalent) in a data engineering context. You have been deep in the technical work and now want to lead people</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A genuine player-coach mindset</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strong stakeholder management skills.&nbsp; You thrive in negotiation, can push back confidently, and know how to reach workable compromises with product teams</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Solid data modeling skills and the credibility to make it a team-wide standard</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Experience managing or developing engineers.&nbsp; Coaching technical fundamentals and growing product thinking</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strong communication skills and the ability to drive a cultural shift toward distributed, self-service data ownership</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Comfort operating across both platform and product delivery contexts</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nice to have</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Experience with data governance for AI agents — guardrails, access control, and safety considerations for agentic analytics</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Familiarity with data lakes, semantic layers, and orchestration tooling at scale</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Experience in a product-led B2B SaaS environment</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hands-on streaming experience (e.g. Kafka or Flink)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you'll get</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><em>Competitive Compensation</em> - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Flexibility </em>- we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><em>Recharge</em> - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Support</em><strong> </strong>-<strong> </strong>we offer offering a company pension scheme</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Volunteers Day</em><strong> </strong>- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong><img src="https://imgur.com/a/kIbq0q5" alt="" style="max-width: 100%;"></strong></h3></div>

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