Mixpanel
Technology
EngineeringManager,DataActivation
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“Engineering Manager, Data Activation at Mixpanel. Skills: Data Activation, AI-first product, Infrastructure. Lead engineering team. Grow team scope”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerate adoption; Improve retention; Ship with confidence; Turn insights into action; Power personalization; Power lifecycle marketing; Power ad targeting; Power AI agents
Industry & Context.
Reason from first principles; Challenge assumptions; Simple solutions to complex problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years engineering, 4+ years leading engineering teams, Experience building infrastructure, Experience building AI-powered products, Proven collaboration with product managers, Proven collaboration with designers, High level of ownership, High level of accountability, High level of product intuition
Nice to Have
Director candidates must have experience managing managers
What You'll Do.
Lead engineering team
Build exceptional team
Create culture of ownership
Create culture of pride
Turn big ideas into execution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering, product, design working side by side; Cross-functional teams; Direct access to customer feedback; Direct access to product data; Direct access to business metrics; Direct access to design context
Full Job Description
About Mixpanel Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more. About the Team Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Engineers here own problems end to end. You can move across the stack to ship impact without being blocked by silos or heavy process. Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility. The Infrastructure group focuses on high-scale customer data, operating as a force multiplier for the broader company as it moves toward an AI-first product. It comprises of four teams, Data Foundation, Query Engine, Data Storage and Data Activation. The Data Activation team owns how data moves out of Mixpanel and into the rest of a customer's stack. We build Cohort Syncs to marketing and ad platforms, Data Pipelines to warehouses, and Real-Time Event Streaming that lets customers act on behavioral signals the moment they happen. Our mission is to help customers turn insights into action, the behavioral data in Mixpanel is only as valuable as what teams can do with it, and we make it power personalization, lifecycle marketing, ad targeting, and increasingly, AI agents. In doing so, we're transforming Mixpanel from an analytics tool into critical data infrastructure that customers' products, campaigns, and workflows depend on every day. Together, these teams are driving foundational initiatives like elastic query compute, distributed file
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