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.

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

• 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.

• 7+ years of experience in software development, including leading or managing cross‑functional teams.
• Deep experience with application development, building full‑stack web apps in modern frameworks (Python/Django, React, or similar).
• Experience with complex data pipelines, data warehouse infrastructure, and data transformation tools like dbt.
• Comfort working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and deploying containerized apps.
• A security‑by‑design mindset for architecture, development, and delivery practices.
• Strong project management and communication skills, and an ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders, including less technical users and senior management.
• Experience with agile software development processes, balancing engineering velocity with system resiliency and maintaining code quality.
• Experience supporting analytics, data science, and machine learning teams.
• Excitement to collaborate with others and to serve as an internal thought leader on new technologies.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t perfectly meet every listed qualification. Not all strong candidates will fulfill every qualification, and we encourage you not to disqualify yourself prematurely if you are excited about this work. We believe that a strong team requires a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.

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