Airtable

Manager,DataEngineering

$236–306k Austin, Texas, United States Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Manager, Data Engineering at Airtable. Skills: Data Engineering Management, Scalable Data Pipelines, AI Tooling Integration. Lead a team of data engineers. Coach and develop reports”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Solve ambiguous business questions

Eligibility Requirements

Open to coming into the office at least ~2-3 times/week

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years managing a data, analytics, or platform engineering team, 10+ years building scalable data pipelines, Proficient in Python, Highly effective with SQL, Experience with SQL tuning

Nice to Have

Airflow experience, Experience with Claude Code, Experience with LLM-assisted pipeline work, Experience with automated PR fixes, Experience with AI-powered discovery

What You'll Do.

Lead a team of data engineers

Coach and develop reports

Enforce pattern language

Manage incident response

Oversee code review standards

Anchor delivery around reliability goals

Establish AI patterns

Partner across business

Represent team to executives

Turn business questions into solutions

Translate engineering work into business outcomes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with company leaders on data strategy; Work with leaders across data science, growth, sales, marketing, product, and finance; Collaborate with product team

Communication Scope

Write with clarity and precision; Translate technical context for executives; Tell stories with data

Full Job Description

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. At Airtable, we're passionate about democratizing software creation, empowering anyone to build powerful and flexible tools without writing code. With our shift to an AI-native platform, customers can now generate full apps and deploy AI agents directly into their workflows. Data engineering plays a critical role in this evolution by delivering the insights our teams rely on to improve user experience, measure agent impact, and understand how the business is performing at scale. As the Data Engineering Manager at Airtable, you'll lead the GTM & Business Data Engineering team, the team that owns the datasets powering go-to-market and business operations across the company. Your team builds the business-critical pipelines and core tables that report AI usage metrics company-wide, maintains the data models that support RevOps, Marketing, and Finance stakeholders, and increasingly uses AI tools (Claude skills, AI context guidance, and emerging tooling) as a core part of how the team works every day. You'll set the technical bar, shape the team's AI craft, own team operations, and partner with company leaders on data strategy. One thing that makes this role unique: the platform you're measuring and building on is the same one your customers use every day. When Airtable ships a new AI agent capability, your team is among the first to instrument it, understand its adoption, and help shape what comes next. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are looking to hire candidates at this level that are based in San Francisco or New York City who are open to coming into the office at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration. What you'll do Lead a team o

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