Tech Lead Manager, Data

Chime is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to help manage and guide the Data team to drive the company to build a scalable and self-serve data foundation. As a Tech Lead Manager in the Data team, you will lead the effort to enable Chime to democratize data with stronger governance.

• Drive the next generation of FinTech innovation by leading AI-driven, data-centric initiatives that accelerate business growth, improve decision-making, and advance Chime's data platform.
• Partner closely with Analytics, Product, Data Science, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality, trusted, and secure data products while serving as a strategic thought partner to the business.
• Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement by establishing a clear sense of urgency and direction, setting high expectations for both the team and individual contributors, and driving operational excellence.
• Collaborate across teams to prioritize work, resolve issues, and remove delivery obstacles, ensuring the team remains focused on delivering the highest business impact while maintaining engineering quality and velocity.

• 5+ years of experience leading Data Engineering teams.
• Proven experience building scalable, AI-ready data platforms, semantic models, and trusted data products.
• Strong partnership with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Marketing to deliver business outcomes.
• Experience driving engineering excellence, including data quality, governance, CI/CD, and operational reliability.
• Experience with Growth and Marketing data platforms, including attribution, funnels, and experimentation.
• Experience in supporting teams to deliver solutions on tech stack such as Spark, Snowflake, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Key-Value store, dbt.

Base salary offered for this role and level of experience: $199,000—$275,000 USD. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits.

Benefits include: backup child, elder, and pet care; subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees; comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits; generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off; 1% of your time off to support local community organizations; annual wellness stipend; up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents; access to family planning reimbursement.

In-office work policy: four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Fully remote program also available.

Apply via the provided Greenhouse link. For accommodation requests, contact accommodations@chime.com.