Engineering Manager (Data Engineering)

ABOUT QUINCE Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators who want to come together and challenge the status quo. Our mission is simple: make really high quality essentials for really low prices, fairly and sustainably. We deliver on that mission through a unique manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) model eliminating the layers of traditional retail that add cost and result in consumers paying more than they need to. We find, build relationships with, and work directly with the manufacturing partners behind some of the world’s finest products. From there, our teams design smart, efficient operational processes and build and deploy proprietary technology, AI, and analytics to help us scale fast. What began with a small assortment of elevated basics has quickly grown into a cross-category brand spanning apparel, accessories, home goods, and more. Today, tens of millions of people across a growing number of countries come – and return – to Quince because they trust us to deliver. OUR CULTURE Quince is a culture built for builders by builders. Our way of working starts with a blank sheet of paper. We question conventional thinking, use technology and data to uncover new opportunities, and move quickly to turn ideas into reality. We aren’t interested in replicating how others do retail. We’re building a better way – at a speed and scale unlike anything that’s been done before. • We dream big and chase the hard problems others shy away from. Rejecting long-held assumptions is part of our company's DNA. Where conventional wisdom says you have to choose – soft or durable, speed or rigor, quality or price – we ask why that trade-off has to exist in the first place. • Our pace is fast and the bar is high because our customers expect a lot from us and we refuse to let them down. We believe the best results come from challenging ourselves, learning from one another, and building on each other's strengths. • Here, responsibility is not determined by role, tenure, or seniority. Every team member - no matter their level - has the opportunity to drive our business and shape our trajectory. If you’re someone who likes to imagine new possibilities and build better systems rather than plug-in to outdated ones, Quince is the place for you. THE ROLE Engineering Manager (Data Engineering) We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Products team — the engineers who own the ETL pipelines and curated datasets behind Quince’s core business domains. This is a delivery- and ownership-heavy leadership role. You’ll own the datasets that the business runs on: how they’re modeled, how reliably they land, how well they’re documented, and how much they cost to produce. You’ll lead a team of data engineers embedded against business domains, set the modeling and quality bar across them, and act as the primary engineering partner to Analytics, Marketing, and Product. If you like turning messy upstream systems into trustworthy, well-modeled data products — and building the team and standards that keep them trustworthy — this role is for you. Responsibilities Team Leadership & Development • Lead, grow, and develop a team of data engineers owning domain-aligned data products, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career growth. • Build strong working relationships with engineers across the team, understand strengths and development areas, and establish clear growth plans. • Ensure operational efficiency and actively participate in organizational initiatives with the objective of ensuring the highest customer value. Data Products & Dataset Ownership • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of domain datasets: ingestion, transformation, modeling, publication, documentation, and deprecation. • Own delivery of the domain ETL roadmap, including prioritization, sequencing, commitments, and predictable execution across multiple business stakeholders. • Own freshness, accuracy, and availability SLAs for critical datasets, along with the on-call and incident response process that protects them. • Establish clear ownership and data contracts between the Data Products team, upstream service teams, and downstream consumers. Data Modeling & Engineering Standards • Set and enforce standards for data modeling, including dimensional and semantic layers, transformation patterns, testing, and code review across domains. • Drive data quality and observability practices through checks, alerting, lineage, and root-cause discipline so issues are caught before consumers find them. • Identify opportunities to improve reliability, freshness, modeling quality, delivery predictability, and cost. Data Platform & Technical Operations • Partner with the Data Platform team to translate domain needs into platform capabilities and drive adoption of self-serve tooling within the team. • Manage the compute and storage cost of domain pipelines and drive measurable efficiency improvements. • Understand upstream source systems and failure modes that impact downstream data. • Drive improvements across reliability, data quality, freshness, SLA adherence, cost, and query efficiency. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Partnership • Act as the trusted engineering counterpart for Analytics, Marketing, and Product leaders. • Develop strong working relationships with business and analytics stakeholders and establish clear support and intake processes. • Translate business requirements into scalable and reliable data products while balancing competing priorities. • Manage stakeholder expectations, communicate trade-offs clearly, and maintain predictable delivery. Organizational Impact • Establish and maintain a clear ownership model for domains and datasets, with named owners and defined interfaces. • Define and roll out modeling and transformation standards covering naming, layering, testing, documentation, and review expectations. • Establish a healthy execution rhythm across intake and triage for ad-hoc requests, sprint planning, design reviews, on-call rotation, and stakeholder reporting. • Drive adoption of self-serve ETL tooling within the team and feed real requirements back to the Data Platform team. • Set a longer-term domain roadmap that aligns business priorities with technical investment and retires legacy pipelines. Qualifications Required • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers. • Strong hands-on background with SQL, Python, and Spark, with production experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale. • Deep expertise in data modeling, including dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, incremental and idempotent transformation patterns, and designing datasets for analytical consumption. • Experience owning business-critical datasets end-to-end, with real accountability for freshness, correctness, and SLAs. • Hands-on experience with a modern cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar. • Experience with a workflow orchestrator such as Airflow or similar. • Track record of delivering a multi-quarter roadmap across several competing business stakeholders on predictable timelines. • Demonstrated ability to hire, retain, and grow strong engineers. • Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to say no, explain why, and maintain strong relationships. • Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you help define the right way. Preferred • Experience using dbt for transformations and modeling, and building a reusable modeling framework across domains. • Experience with data quality and observability tooling such as Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, or in-house equivalents. • Familiarity with data mesh / domain-ownership operating models and data contracts. • Experience with Spark for large-scale transformations and Kafka or CDC-based ingestion. • Familiarity with modern data stack concepts, including lakehouse architectures, columnar storage, and open table formats. • Experience with a BI/semantic layer such as Looker or similar and partnering closely with analytics teams. • Experience with AWS and managing pipeline cost at scale. WHY QUINCE? Joining Quince means being part of a mission-driven team reshaping retail. You will work alongside talented colleagues, tackle meaningful challenges, and contribute to building a more sustainable, accessible future for customers and partners alike. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & HIRING INTEGRITY Quince provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applications for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Quince is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application or to perform the essential functions of a role at Quince, please let us know by completing this accommodation form. We review all requests individually and will work with you to determine appropriate accommodations on a case-by-case basis. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. 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