Manager III, Software Development - Content Data Platform

About the role

onX is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Content Data Platform team. This role is central to onX's content strategy, operating within the Content Engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Make great engineers better. Support individual goal-setting, professional development, and mentoring. Coach engineers through structured growth plans and partner with senior/staff-level ICs to set technical direction for the team.
• Deliver the platform. Collaborate with the Data Engineering team to drive delivery of the Content Foundation roadmap, extending our unified data ingestion platform to all content types, proving fact-level provenance on land ownership data at a national scale, and establishing versioned data contracts with downstream consumers.
• Build great teams. Hire smart, creative, and kind engineers. Build and sustain a healthy team culture where ownership and collaboration are the norm. Mentor across disciplinary lines: geospatial domain experts are your partners, and you’ll raise the bar on data quality craft and engineering best practices across that boundary, not just within your direct team.
• Drive cross-team convergence. Partner with the Data & Analytics EM to converge on shared Lakehouse infrastructure, a shared metadata and lineage platform, a unified analytics infrastructure, and consistent environment patterns across teams.
• Own operational excellence. Establish and maintain production reliability practices, including SLO definition, monitoring, and alerting, incident management, on-call sustainability, and postmortem culture for a platform that directly affects the accuracy of maps used by millions of hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts.
• Embed quality as a platform constraint. Drive a shift-left approach to data quality: schema contracts enforced at ingestion, registration with metadata store, automated validation gates before data reaches downstream consumers, and SLOs tied to data freshness and completeness, not just platform uptime. Hold the bar for data quality and governance high and don’t let it slip under delivery pressure.
• Translate and communicate. Translate business strategy and content team priorities into clear engineering direction, helping your team understand why their work matters. Communicate the value of platform investments to stakeholders who care about outcomes like fresher trail data or more accurate land ownership boundaries, not pipeline architecture. Be effective in a matrixed environment where your ability to influence without authority matters as much as your ability to execute.
• Collaborate. Serve as the engineering interface for vertical product teams (Hunt, Offroad, Fish, Backcountry), data delivery, and the geospatial editing team. Manage dependencies, push back on one-off pipeline requests in favor of durable platform capabilities, and maintain high cross-functional alignment.

Location

The position can be performed from an onX corporate office, “Basecamp,” or “Connection Hub.”

What you’ll bring

• At least five (5) years of experience directly managing software engineers.
• Proven experience leading teams building data platform or data infrastructure systems.
• Experience leading a team through migration off a legacy system to modern infrastructure.
• Proven track record of breaking down large, long-horizon projects into milestones that deliver incremental business value.
• You’ve managed or closely partnered with cross-functional teams that aren't organized along traditional engineering/analytics lines.
• You have strong hiring and team development instincts.
• You can engage substantively on architectural decisions and help your team resolve open questions.
• You communicate well with executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• You're comfortable using AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity.

Compensation

onX is committed to compensating all employees fairly and equitably for their contributions. For this position, applicants can expect to make between $150,000 to $188,000 upon hire. The pay range will vary based on experience, skills, certifications, and education among other factors as required in the job description. In addition, full-time onX employees are eligible for a grant of common share options with a vesting schedule and a potential annual bonus of 10% based on company performance.