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Manager, Data Operations

People Inc


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 190000 - 205000
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title

Manager Data Operations

Job Description

About The Position:

The Manager Data Operations leads the design reliability and day-to-day execution of the companys core data pipelines and analytics infrastructure while directly managing a team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management accountability ensuring that data systems are scalable trusted well-documented and aligned with business priorities. The role is responsible for setting technical direction prioritizing team work-streams developing talent and ensuring cross-functional alignment across Analytics Product and Technology. This is both a strategic leadership role and a hands-on operational steward for the companys data platform.

In-office Expectations: Hybrid NYC. This position is hybrid in-office with the ability to work remotely for up to 3 days per week.

About The Positions Contributions:

Accountabilities Actions and Expected Measurable Results

30%

Data Engineering & Pipeline Operations

Own the design reliability and scalability of ingestion transformation and storage pipelines

Ensure ELT/ETL processes run with high uptime and strong data quality

Guide orchestration monitoring and performance optimization

Reduce operational fragility by promoting shared patterns and automation

30%

Analytics Engineering & Data Modeling

Oversee development and maintenance of clean tested well-documented data models (e.g. dbt)

Define standards for modeling and semantic consistency

Ensure downstream BI and analytics consumers have trusted well-structured datasets

20%

Governance Quality & Trust

Establish clear metric definitions and semantic models

Partner with Governance and Security teams on lineage metadata and access controls

Reduce metric inconsistencies and reporting ambiguity

Ensure compliance with privacy and security standards

20%

Business Partnership & Communication

Serve as a data advisor to Analytics Product and business leadership

Translate business priorities into technical roadmaps

Communicate complex technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Prioritize investments based on measurable business impact

What Youll Do:

  • Manage and mentor a team of data engineers responsible for building and maintaining core data models dashboards and scalable data products.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs gather requirements and deliver high-quality data solutions that support reporting and decision-making.

  • Design implement and optimize performant well-documented data models that enable self-service analytics and strategic initiatives.

  • Define and champion engineering best practices around code quality documentation version control and testing within analytics workflows.

  • Lead or support ad-hoc data analyses to uncover insights and drive business strategy.

  • Stay up to date on industry trends and new technologies to continuously improve our data architecture tooling and processes.

What You Bring:

  • 7 years of experience building and optimizing data pipelines using Python or similar programming languages.

  • 5 years of advanced SQL experience working with relational and distributed data systems (e.g. Hive BigQuery).

  • Hands-on experience with dbt for data transformation and pipeline management.

  • 2 years of experience leading or mentoring a team of data or analytics engineers or owning end-to-end delivery of large-scale data products.

  • Strong leadership and talent-development skills

  • Excellent communication across technical and business audiences

  • Strong prioritization decision-making and documentation discipline

  • Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as BigQuery Snowflake or AWS/GCP.

  • Experience with data visualization tools such as Looker Tableau or similar is a plus.

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program please click here: Range

Salary: New York: $190000 - $205000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Incs total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives.In additionPeople Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits including medical dental vision prescription drug coverage unlimited paid time off (PTO) adoption or surrogate assistance donation matching tuition reimbursement basic life insurance basic accidental death & dismemberment supplemental life insurance supplemental accident insurance commuter benefits short term and long term disability health savings and flexible spending accounts family care benefits a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program 10-12 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance accident critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage life and disability insurance.

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Required Experience:

Manager


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People Inc. is owned by People Incorporated, formerly IAC. Learn more about IAC’s transition…

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