For 20 years, our mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural and organic products to encourage healthier and more vibrant living. By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform, web, and mobile products. At the core of our work lies a passion to create a culture of sustainable health & wellness.

What you will do.

The SPINS Product and Technology teams include product development for internal and client-facing applications, data operations, data sourcing, master data, data science, custom reporting, design, engineering, data content quality and compliance. The position of Manager for Data & Software Quality reports to the SVP of Technology and will work across all of the Product and Technology teams to build a sustainable culture of quality in data and software.

The Manager of the Data & Software Quality team will drive a transition from ensuring the successful deployment of software changes to measuring the successful delivery of the data we ingest & enhance, the data science models that move into production, and the fitness & use of our data & insights as clients use our software platforms.  This will require collecting, measuring and improving of data quality as well as the team’s performance.  Collaboration across engineering, operations, data science, data governance, customer support and product management is essential for success in this role.

What You Bring

 While your talent and experience matters most, we have to mention these qualifications matter to us:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technology, statistics or science
• Experience in organizations where data & insights are what we sell to clients
• 5+ years as a manager of a technical team including performance reviews and OKRs (objectives & key results)
• Ability to understand both aggregated and disaggregated data with statistical measures
• Competence in tools such as SQL, Unix, Selenium
• Prior experience balancing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team through significant change of skills & responsibilities
• Effective verbal and written communication with co-workers
• Excellent time management and attention to detail

 We’re even more impressed if you bring along your:

• Exposure to XP or other Agile engineering teams
• Experience with the integration of AI and ML models into production operations
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (or AWS or Azure)

Why SPINS?

When we began working from home in March, we were committed to keeping the healthy and active SPINS culture for our employees. Keeping the culture is high priority to us as we have continued to hire and onboard new employees even while we worked remotely. We listen to employee feedback as we plan when and how we will return to the office in the future. While we can’t have some of our favorite in-office perks (plenty of snacks, onsite gym, and bike storage), we’ve continued to find ways to stay true to SPINS:

• Virtual yoga, HIIT, and Kinstretch classes each week
• Each employee is allotted 8 hours to use to volunteer with an organization of their choice.
• Stay connected with other SPINS employees for a weekly PELETON ride together

 The SPINS Way

• Direct – We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
• Determined – We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
• Passionate – We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
• Collaborative – We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.