Engineering Manager

1 big thing: Axios is a respected media company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format known as  Smart Brevity™. We’re hiring a remote Engineering Manager focused on Data to lead a team shaping how Axios collects, structures, and activates data across our business.

Why it matters: Data is at the core of Axios’ strategy. Our teams ensure that the data powering our journalism, products, and AI initiatives is clean, reliable, and actionable. From enabling personalization and audience growth to powering editorial tools and AI-driven innovation, we need thoughtful engineering leadership to help Axios use data as a true differentiator.

Responsibilities: In this role, you will make an impact at Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Directly supporting individual engineers through 1:1s, coaching, and feedback.
• Helping cross-functional teams (Product, Data Science, Data Analysts, Editorial, and Engineering) work productively, with effective prioritization and resourcing.
• Driving delivery of clean, reliable data pipelines that directly power personalization, editorial tooling, and AI applications.
• Partnering with product managers and analysts to integrate data into products that help Axios grow audiences and improve user experiences.
• Helping to hire and onboard a diverse team of data engineers, and actively fostering an inclusive environment.
• Creating processes and frameworks that help engineers focus, experiment, and deliver — without feeling impeded.
• Shaping Axios’ data strategy by building scalable platforms while ensuring transparency, documentation, and long-term resilience.
• Helping maintain a culture that balances healthy urgency with the need for downtime and recuperation.

Skills: Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for Axios’ mission, and preferably have many of the following skills:

• 3–7+ years of experience leading engineering teams, with a focus on data engineering or backend systems.
• Strong technical grounding in data platforms, pipelines, and modern cloud technologies.
• Experience building or supporting data systems that integrate into products, personalization, or AI workflows.
• A great understanding of how data systems succeed and fail, and a willingness to experiment with your teams to do more of the former.
• A track record of treating engineers as humans, not fungible resources.
• Excellent listening and communication skills that translate well to a remote work environment.

Starting salary for this role is in the range of $160,000 – $220,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation and benefits. Axios' compensation philosophy takes into account cost of labor differentials across the country. Because this is a remote-optional job posting, this salary range takes into account all possible locations within the United States, but candidates will only be eligible for the salary range for their location.

What Axios brings to the table besides salary:

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate 
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies 
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers 
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Axios is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Axios makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.