Engineering Manager, Search & Consumer AI

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Location: New York, NY, United States Workplace Type: RemoteFull-TimeManager
Salary$190,000 — $237,500 USD
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Job Details

Experience
1-3+ years managing a software engineering team, or significant tech-lead experience with people-leadership responsibilities
Required Skills
AWSJavaKafkaSalesforceNLP

Requirements

  • Have 1-3+ years managing a software engineering team, or significant tech-lead experience with people-leadership responsibilities.
  • Have experience delivering complex, high-scale systems.
  • Have experience in a Java and AWS ecosystem.
  • Have experience shipping consumer-facing AI/ML or NLP features to production.
  • Have experience integrating LLMs and building pipelines and evaluation practices to keep them reliable.
  • Have a strong understanding of search, discovery, or relevance systems, including traditional search and LLM-based approaches.
  • Demonstrate strong technical judgment and clear communication with engineers, Product partners, and leadership.
  • Have the ability to mentor engineers and build a healthy, high-performing team.
  • Be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building.
  • AWS Bedrock or equivalent managed AI services experience is preferred.
  • Experience with customer support AI or embedded consumer AI experiences is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Airflow, dbt, OpenSearch, Kotlin, and Salesforce is preferred.
  • Experience building shared platforms consumed by multiple product teams is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery across Search and Consumer AI, including scope, sequencing, blocker removal, and risk management.
  • Set reliability, performance, and relevance quality standards, with observability for AI and search services.
  • Ensure the team's work meets data governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI standards.
  • Own on-call, incident response, and operational health for the team's systems.
  • Partner with Product and engineering leadership to shape planning and roadmaps.
  • Work with product teams across the ecosystem to embed AI experiences and agree on shared ownership, interfaces, and quality bars.
  • Guide how LLMs and ML models are evaluated, integrated, and rolled out in production.
  • Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers, providing timely feedback and supporting career growth.
  • Build team processes for planning, reviews, retrospectives, and experimentation.
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