Manager of Data Science & Engineering

Who you are

• Leadership Experience: 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years managing data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams with a focus on coaching senior ICs, career development, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture
• Working Style & Values: An adaptable, self-motivated leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, humility, empathy, and a passion for the outdoors
• Platform & Governance: Hands-on experience managing GCP data infrastructure, enforcing data governance, and maintaining production-grade data access patterns, storage, caching, and optimization standards
• Modern Data Stack: Extensive proficiency in transforming high-volume datasets in columnar SQL warehouses (BigQuery preferred, or Snowflake) using ELT tools (Dataform, dbt) and orchestrators like Apache Airflow
• Pipeline & Processing: Proven expertise designing complex SQL/Python pipelines using parallelized processing frameworks (Dataflow, Spark, or similar) and core data modeling techniques (dimensional, star schema)
• DevOps & SDLC: Deep familiarity with software engineering best practices, including Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), code reviews, and monthly on-call rotation
• Applied AI/ML: Track record of guiding teams through the full ML lifecycle (MLOps) to support applied use cases like recommendation, ranking, personalization, and classification engines
• Cross-Functional Ownership: Skilled at leading across both platform foundations and applied data products, with the business judgment to prioritize competing stakeholder needs
• End-to-End Delivery: Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs, collaborating effectively with stakeholders to own projects from inception to completion
• Experience working with geospatial data, maps, tiling, graph databases, and/or routing
• Experience working in a multi-cloud environment (GCP + AWS)
• Experience working at a B2C company
• Skilled at managing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)

What the job involves

• Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Maps & Data, this role will lead the AllTrails’ Data Science & Engineering team, a small and centralized engineering function that cross-functionally supports the business across product pods and partner teams including: data analytics, finance, and marketing
• The team’s scope spans scalable data infrastructure, data governance, reliability, compliance, and the development and productionization of machine learning, AI, and algorithmic solutions that power internal operations and member-facing product experiences
• Team Leadership & People Management
• Manage & Grow the Team: Lead, hire, and coach a team of data engineers and applied data scientists while fostering team health, professional development, and high performance through active coaching and performance management
• Strategic Business Partnership & AI Strategy
• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical requirements, prioritize initiatives, and balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery goals
• Domain & AI Innovation: Serve as a key thought partner on leveraging data, AI, and automation to enhance AllTrails' internal productivity, trail content, map quality, and member personalization experiences
• Data Platform & Engineering Execution
• Pipeline & ML Architecture: Drive the architecture and delivery of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, while scaling the productionization of ML models and algorithmic systems into dependable engineering solutions
• System Operations & Reliability: Oversee orchestration, transformation, alerting, and data flow across the organization—troubleshooting complex performance bottlenecks and system failures to ensure high system uptime
• Data Governance, Democratization & Platform Operations
• Governance & Self-Service: Champion data reliability, quality, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency while building tools for data cataloging, documentation, and self-service to democratize data assets
• Velocity & Continuous Improvement: Create organizational leverage by improving time-to-insight, debugging speed, and deployment velocity, while continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to elevate data capabilities

The application process

• Due to high candidate volume and to ensure our hiring team has sufficient time to give every application the attention it deserves, we have set a closing date of August 20th for this position

Benefits

• Competitive pay + equity: We offer both to every full time employee, so you have a real stake in our success.
• Unlimited time off + monthly trail day: We offer unlimited PTO in addition to company holidays. And we provide dedicated time once a month to test and improve our product through company-wide no-meeting days.
• Free medical coverage: You read that right. We don’t just offer excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance. We also pay 100% medical premiums for you and your family.
• Paid parental leave: We offer fully paid leave to birthing and non-birthing parents.
• Remote-first culture: Our team is distributed by design, not necessity. We provide a home workspace stipend, get-together budgets, and lots of ways to connect virtually for work and fun.
• 401(k) + match: The future is bright — and we’re here to help you build that nest egg. We’ll match your contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 4%.
• Internet and education stipends: We believe in investing in our people. That’s why we give an annual learning & development budget, plus a monthly reimbursement for phone and wifi.
• 100% donation matching: Passionate about a cause? We’re with you. AllTrails will match your one-time or recurring donations to thousands of nonprofit organizations.