Engineering Manager (Data Team)

• Scale the team: Lead hiring and onboarding as we grow from a small, tight-knit team to a high-performing engineering organization. • Scale the team: • Drive execution excellence: Ensure the team delivers with high velocity, quality, and reliability—while maintaining strong cross-functional alignment. Implement and evolve processes, tools, and metrics to support scalable and repeatable delivery. • Drive execution excellence: • Lead and mentor: Support and grow individual contributors through coaching and feedback—helping them become the best version of themselves and ensuring alignment with what the team needs to succeed. • Lead and mentor: • Own engineering culture: Champion a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, ownership, and collaboration. • Own engineering culture: • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product, design, and business leads to define the team roadmap and business goals. • Collaborate cross-functionally: • Make technical contributions: Contribute in code reviews and establish processes that keep pushing the bar on engineering excellence. While you might not code every day, you should be capable of engaging deeply on architecture, technical decisions, and trade-offs. • Make technical contributions: • Ensure platform reliability: Set up guardrails, monitoring, and alerting with the team, and drive incident response to uphold operational excellence and deliver the best possible experience for our enterprise customers. • Ensure platform reliability: • Continuously improve: Identify and address bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments—always looking for ways to raise the bar. • Continuously improve: • Have experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in multiple organizations. • Have strong product acumen and a deep sense of customer empathy. You act as a sparring partner—challenging the team and product to build solutions customers truly love. • Have a track record of delivering complex, high-quality software in a product-focused environment. • Are fluent in modern development practices—CI/CD, cloud platforms (ideally AWS), infrastructure automation, testing, and system reliability. • Have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You can influence cross-functionally and empower teams to make decisions that align with both technical and business needs. • Lead with humility, clarity, and high standards. You’re as comfortable rolling up your sleeves when teams need it as you are empowering others by setting clear expectations and upholding the bar without micromanagement. • Have previous experience in a startup environment and thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous situations. You know how to operate without much structure—and enjoy building it. • Bluefish believes that AI represents the next major chapter of the internet – and that consumers will increasingly use AI to consume information and media online. On this new AI internet, brands will need new tools and technologies to tell their stories to consumers online – and a new marketing ecosystem will be created around AI. Bluefish is building the platform that helps brands engage consumers on this new AI channel, with powerful enterprise tools to manage AI brand safety and engage consumers with thoughtful and personalized AI marketing experiences. • The Bluefish team is a tight-knit group of mar-tech industry veterans who previously helped build foundational ad-tech platforms now owned by Meta and Microsoft. Bluefish, the leading AI marketing platform for the Fortune 500, recently announced a $20M Series A funding round led by NEA, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. Additional investors include Crane Venture Partners, Swift Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta.