Manager, Data Engineering & Analytics

We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.Since launching in 2010, WP Engine has become the world’s leading WordPress technology company. Hundreds of thousands of customers across the world use our products every day to design, build, power, and manage their WordPress websites. We’re proud of the technology and service we offer our customers that move their businesses forward faster. At WP Engine, we strive to do the best work of our careers, and feel empowered to do what is right for our customers. We love investing in employee success and uncovering opportunities for you, the best, to get better. 99 percent of employees believe you’re made to feel welcome at WP Engine. Be you. Be here.What's cool about this job? We are searching for a Manager of Data Engineering and Analytics, to lead our team of talented data professionals. Our data platform powers both customer and business success and you will be managing the teams that drive that impact every day. You will empower our product and marketing teams to engage more effectively with our users so they can get more value from our products and services. You will manage the people who are responsible for delivering trusted, robust, and valuable data assets that are used across the business. We apply software engineering best practices to our data, leveraging dbt with CI/CD to build, test, and deploy changes to our data models.The analytics team is responsible for the core data models, our Unified Analytics Model, that allow us to understand and evolve our business. The team is also responsible for ensuring that all teams can create and access data sets in a way that is useful and consistent. Your team of data scientists are responsible for applying data science to the most challenging or strategically impactful questions that we have.Our culture is renowned; we believe it is meaningful to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you are great at solving problems, a hard worker with excellent interpersonal skills, and enjoy working across different time zones and cultures, you may be the person that we are looking for!The day to day.Hire, retain, and grow a talented group of data analysts and data scientists.Be accountable for the delivery of new data assets and for improving and evolving existing ones.Understand and communicate the teams' capacity and skills and align them to the roadmap.Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, product managers, and others to iterate on a data strategy that supports the needs of our rapidly growing business.Work closely with business stakeholders in Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance & Customer Experience to design and deliver valuable data and data science models to drive business results.Communicate the team's work and the value it creates.Cultivate a high performance mindset, setting high standards and clear expectations.Be an advocate for maintaining high quality and highly maintainable data assets through best practices and standards.Drive improvements in process, code quality, and delivery cadence across the team.Your skills and expertise.You are a servant leader. The team's success is your success. You have passion for leading others and helping them to grow.Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You will be communicating with senior leadership across the companyExperience leading a high performing data teamUnderstanding of modern software development practices and how they apply in the context of a data platformExperience with data tools and platforms; dbt and BigQuery a plusProficient in SQL; able to debug and optimize queriesExperience with Python tools for data scienceAbility to work effectively with a remote team across multiple time zonesUnderstanding of business strategy and metrics7+ years of experience in engineering or engineering leadership3+ years working in data: data engineering, data engineering, or data science. The perks and benefits.Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)Matched pension planVHI Healthcare & DentalThrive Pass - €100 to expense every month on anything that makes you happy!Employee Assistance ProgramGenerous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)One-time €465 Home Office StipendEmployee Resource Groups4 Company Wellness DaysWellness ProgramCalm App SubscriptionAt WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. ​