Engineering Manager, The Athletic
Apps Platform
$176-193k
Subscription-based sports content publisher
Job no longer available
Subscription-based sports content publisher
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$176-193k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To produce smarter coverage for die-hard fans and redefine the way fans get access to sports content by flipping the normal model for sports journalism.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years leading one or more native app engineering teams
- Deep understanding of the mobile domain and its unique complexities
- Ability to communicate highly technical concepts to non-technical partners and stakeholders
- Proven experience managing high-performing teams with senior engineers
- You value the learning and growth of your team
- You have a passion for The Athletic’s mission and desire to help us shape the future of digital journalism
What the job involves
- Manage a team of iOS and Android engineers responsible for evolving the foundational platforms that power native app development
- Consult with Product Teams to ensure high quality and consistent architectures across our native stacks
- Provide detailed technical evaluations of plans, architecture, and practices developed by your teams
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and your Engineering Team to define strategy and execute on your roadmap
- Partner with Product Managers and your Engineering Team to prioritize, plan and schedule work
- Coordinate and deliver product releases across web, and mobile apps, as well as deployment of services to support our products
- Ensure your team and stakeholders have visibility around the whole development lifecycle and key progress indicators
- Partner with Staff Engineers to develop, socialize, and implement mobile engineering practices to support quality, reliability, scalability, working with Mobile Engineers across all of engineering, including those embedded on Product Teams
- Invest in research and development to ensure we are leveraging modern and optimal technologies to meet our enterprise needs
- Make technology and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale
- Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within the team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals
- Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process
Our take
The Athletic provides authentic, in-depth coverage written by journalists who know the teams they write about inside out. Its model bucks the trend of traditional sports journalism outfits by asking for a subscription rather than relying on ad-revenue.
Despite initial doubts that users would be willing to pay for sports journalistic content, The Athletic has found significant success and was acquired by the New York Times in 2022. Despite it operating at a loss directly after the takeover, it was clear that the New York Times perceived this as a long-term investment.
In 2025, it was reported that The Athletic was now profitable, which aligns well with its parent's prediction of profitability within 4 years. This has been aided by accelerated customer growth alongside the rising trend of subscription-based sports news.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES D
May 2019
$21.8m
SERIES C
Total funding: $139.7m
Company benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401 (k)
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Free Subscription
- Competitive Health Care
- HSA & FSA
- Commuter Benefits
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adam Hansmann
(President & Co-Founder)Previously a McKinsey Business Analyst and then Associate at Calera Capital.
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