[Hiring] Senior Manager, Data Engineering @Carrot

Role Description

Carrot is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to lead our Business Intelligence data engineering function as it scales to meet, and anticipate, the needs of the organization and its clients. This is a senior player/coach role with a strong emphasis on strategic leadership, technical excellence, and organizational impact. You will lead and grow a high-impact team while remaining deeply hands-on in architecting and building Carrot's data infrastructure.

• Own the technical vision and roadmap for BI data engineering, aligning it with company strategy and analytics needs.
• Design, build, and review scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and workflow orchestration systems, contributing hands-on production code in Python and SQL.
• Architect and optimize data warehouse models that support advanced analytics, self-service BI, and operational reporting.
• Establish and enforce standards for reliability, observability, testing, and performance across all data systems.
• Drive improvements in data quality, lineage, and governance, including documentation and metadata practices.
• Partner with backend product engineering teams to co-design production database schemas and event models with analytics and reporting in mind.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Own team-level planning and execution, including capacity planning, prioritization, and delivery across concurrent workstreams.
• Translate ambiguous business and analytics needs into a clear, prioritized engineering roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Security, and Legal to align on priorities, ensure compliance, and remove cross-functional blockers.
• Evaluate and influence build vs. buy decisions, vendor selection, and tool adoption across data platforms, ingestion, and transformation.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in data engineering or a closely related field, including 3-5+ years leading and managing data or software engineers.
• 5+ years of advanced SQL and 5+ years of Python development experience in production environments, including unit and integration testing.
• Strong, hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines in production.
• Proficiency with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS) and modern ingestion, transformation, and orchestration tools (e.g., Fivetran, dbt, Prefect, Airflow).
• Strong understanding of relational modeling and warehouse design principles, plus version control (Git preferred) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and standards while remaining capable of direct technical execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong knowledge of data governance, security best practices, and compliance protocols.

Requirements

• Direct experience with Carrot's current tech stack: Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Prefect, and AWS.
• Experience with enterprise BI platforms and enabling self-service analytics.
• Experience integrating batch and event-streaming or real-time ingestion systems.
• Prior experience leading data engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment, ideally including managing other leads or senior-level ICs.
• Healthcare industry experience, including familiarity with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and privacy regulations (HIPAA, GDPR).

Benefits

• A mission-driven company focused on expanding access to fertility and family-forming care globally.
• A high-growth environment where leaders are empowered to shape strategy and drive impact.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
• Flexible Time Off and a culture that actively encourages employees to recharge.
• Comprehensive parental leave and family-forming benefits.
• A collaborative, inclusive, and values-driven culture.
• The opportunity to work alongside passionate, thoughtful teammates committed to improving healthcare outcomes worldwide.

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen — 30 minutes
• Hiring Manager Interview — 30–45 minutes
• Cross-Functional Panel Interviews — 45 minutes
• Executive Leadership Conversation — 30 minutes
• Hiring Manager Wrap-Up — 15 minutes