Engineering Manager

Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. We have more than 350 team members in six countries and thirteen offices — Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, D.C., London, Los Angeles, New York, Oslo, San Francisco, and Zürich. We apply our unique expertise across strategic communications, public affairs, research, and digital marketing to create sophisticated and customized strategies that make change possible for both American and European clients.

The Impact You Will Make

As the Engineering Manager, you’ll lead our Labs engineering team, building the software that powers BPI campaigns across advertising, strategic communications, and research. Our tools and products make it possible for companies and organizations to understand the audiences that are most important to them, identify the most effective message to persuade them, reach them wherever they are (from their TVs to their newsfeed to the billboard by their house), and measure what’s actually shaping peoples’ views. You’ll steer the team that designs and scales these systems, from data pipelines to full-stack web apps, used every day by analysts, strategists, and creatives across the organization. This role is part builder, part mentor, part systems thinker. You’ll shape how our products evolve and how our engineering team grows into a stronger, more unified, and higher-velocity organization.

• Salary range: $165,000 - $185,000
• Location: Expectation to work from an office (NY, Chi, DC or SF) at least 3x a week

What the Day-to-Day Looks Like

• Lead the engineering team as a player-coach: contribute code, set technical direction, and ensure the team’s systems and people keep improving.
• Build and maintain production web applications that handle complex data and power internal and client-facing tools.
• Design thoughtful, maintainable architectures for our growing platform of microservices and shared components.
• Balance new feature development with managing technical debt and keeping systems secure, observable, and performant.
• Collaborate closely with product and data science peers to turn ideas into shippable, reliable software.
• Develop the rituals, processes, and documentation that help a maturing team scale smoothly by mentoring engineers, improving review practices, and strengthening delivery discipline.
• Work with leadership to develop our engineering roadmap.
• Set the internal strategy for developer tools and frameworks, including how to deploy AI to best accelerate our work.