Engineering Manager, Competitive & Market Intelligence
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
CarGurus is seeking an Engineering Manager – Competitive & Market Intelligence to lead the development of innovative reporting and insights tools that empower auto dealers with a deeper understanding of their local markets and competitive landscape. This role will be pivotal in shaping the dealer experience by providing data-driven guidance that helps them make more informed business decisions.
In this role, you’ll manage a team of 5 and work closely with Product, Data Science, Product Data Analytics, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to deliver scalable, insightful, and intuitive market intelligence solutions. If you're a strategic thinker and executor who thrives on transforming complex data into impactful, easy-to-understand insights, we’d love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do
- Manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team
- Ensure your team writes clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
- Take generic tasks and break them into small, self-contained tasks.
- Accurately estimate and prioritize units of work and drive the incremental release of moderately sized projects
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving software
- Contribute to road mapping discussions by proposing new ideas for technical investment and providing estimates
- Advocate for new technology and new methodologies
- Continuously learn and expand your capabilities
- Have Fun!
What You’ll Bring
- Life long learning skills
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3 years of leadership/management experience
- Expertise with Java or Python
- General understanding of ML techniques and when to use them
- Understanding of AI tools and has hands on experience using them
- Experience building scalable data products and is capable of gathering insights from them
- Excellent Project management skills
- People focused technical leader with high Emotional Intelligence
CarGurus is seeking an Engineering Manager – Competitive & Market Intelligence to lead the development of innovative reporting and insights tools that empower auto dealers with a deeper understanding of their local markets and competitive landscape. This role will be pivotal in shaping the dealer experience by providing data-driven guidance that helps them make more informed business decisions.
In this role, you’ll manage a team of 5 and work closely with Product, Data Science, Product Data Analytics, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to deliver scalable, insightful, and intuitive market intelligence solutions. If you're a strategic thinker and executor who thrives on transforming complex data into impactful, easy-to-understand insights, we’d love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do
- Manage a team of talented engineers while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the broader team
- Ensure your team writes clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
- Take generic tasks and break them into small, self-contained tasks.
- Accurately estimate and prioritize units of work and drive the incremental release of moderately sized projects
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving software
- Contribute to road mapping discussions by proposing new ideas for technical investment and providing estimates
- Advocate for new technology and new methodologies
- Continuously learn and expand your capabilities
- Have Fun!
What You’ll Bring
- Life long learning skills
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3 years of leadership/management experience
- Expertise with Java or Python
- General understanding of ML techniques and when to use them
- Understanding of AI tools and has hands on experience using them
- Experience building scalable data products and is capable of gathering insights from them
- Excellent Project management skills
- People focused technical leader with high Emotional Intelligence
