Senior Manager, Analytics Engineering
$160,000–$187,000 year
HybridLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the data squad supporting FOX Sports by prioritizing, executing, and delivering analytics engineering and instrumentation work. Partner with data leadership to modernize standards, processes, platform capabilities, and AI implementations while serving as a trusted partner to FOX Sports and FOX One stakeholders. Translate business goals into clear technical requirements, data definitions, implementation plans, and scalable data products for large-scale initiatives requiring cross-functional alignment. Establish standards for tracking, data quality, governance, and reusable instrumentation practices to support accurate, scalable data collection and reporting. Manage and mentor team members through coaching, feedback, and prioritization guidance while staying current with developments in analytics engineering, AI, and data governance.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience leading analytics engineering functions, including analytics instrumentation, data collection, standardized reporting, and modern data platform initiatives
- Proven experience leading high-impact, cross-functional programs and teams in complex, stakeholder-driven environments, with the ability to influence strategy and execution across product, engineering, analytics, and business organizations
- Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into scalable data products, analytics solutions, technical requirements, data definitions, reporting frameworks, and implementation roadmaps
- Strong technical foundation spanning analytics engineering, data engineering, and business intelligence, with the ability to balance hands-on technical understanding and strategic leadership
- Advanced SQL expertise with strong experience designing scalable data models, transformation pipelines, and analytics-ready datasets
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms and big data technologies, including Databricks, Apache Spark, AWS, Delta Lake, Airflow, Tableau and cloud-based data warehousing solutions
- Experience with enterprise analytics and customer data platforms such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Segment or similar technologies
- Strong understanding of how analytics engineering decisions impact downstream data platforms, reporting, experimentation, machine learning, and business decision-making
- Experience establishing analytics engineering standards, governance, documentation, and best practices that improve data quality, consistency, and scalability across the organization
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for executive, technical, and non-technical audiences
- Proven people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, organizational planning, and building high-performing engineering teams
- Experience leading organizations through data modernization and transformation initiatives, with the ability to navigate evolving technologies, processes, and operating models while driving adoption and continuous improvement
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting sports, media, streaming, or direct-to-consumer digital products
- Experience with live event, video, subscription, or consumer-facing digital data products
- Experience supporting data governance, data quality, or platform migration initiatives
- Experience with experimentation, optimization, personalization, customer journey analytics, or audience data activation
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