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We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to own the engineering for AI/ML and Core data platforms for VTS products. This role will drive new AI initiatives to increase data quality and usage around our most critical datasets. You’ll also be responsible for simplifying how data comes into VTS. You’ll be leading a motivated, results-oriented team through the next phase of our business while driving efficient engineering processes and coaching team members.

** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **

What Makes This Job Awesome?

• Lead delivery of a high-impact, technically complex product roadmap in close partnership with product and business stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership on the practical application of GenAI, LLMs, and emerging ML/NLP technologies to solve real-world product and engineering challenges.
• Define and uphold AI governance standards, ensuring fairness, transparency, privacy compliance, and responsible development practices.
• Translate advanced AI/ML concepts into actionable strategies that influence product direction and create business value.
• Provide leadership on a high-performing Data platform team
• Mentor manager(s) and staff-level engineers, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
  Champion DevOps excellence through strong observability, reliability, and continuous improvement practices.
• Drive data literacy and scalable data management patterns across engineering.
• Evaluate, pilot, and scale emerging technologies—including AI agents, multimodal interfaces, and rapid prototyping environments—to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
• Develop and track product success and operational excellence metrics to inform decisions and drive outcomes.
  
  

What Makes You a Great Fit? To succeed in this role: 

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and mentoring high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful AI solutions that solve complex business challenges and create strategic value.
• Deep technical expertise in GenAI, LLMs, and modern AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), with hands-on experience integrating LLMs and designing prompt-based applications.
• Strong contributor to technical strategy and product direction—balancing innovation, ethical AI governance, and business alignment.
• Skilled at evaluating AI/ML trade-offs, mitigating risks, and aligning technical investments with customer needs and product goals.
• High degree of creativity and passion for responsible AI, with experience driving ethical standards and compliance in AI product development.
• Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative, inclusive team cultures that build and scale high-quality, AI-augmented products.
• Effective communicator and storyteller—able to distill complex AI/ML topics to align and influence stakeholders across product, sales, marketing, and customer success.
• Experienced in recruiting, developing, and promoting emerging talent, with a strong focus on coaching, mentorship, and technical growth.
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced startup environments, with strong strategic thinking, adaptability, and a bias toward action.

ABOUT OUR TEAM:

• The VTS Product-Engineering-Design-QA organization is about ~120 plus people
• We work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, product designers, engineers and QA
• We value continuous learning in our everyday work
• We deploy daily and rely heavily on automated testing, and CI, and feature flags
• We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
• Our stack: AWS, Spark, Airflow, Python,  Scala
• Learn more about us on our engineering blog

What VTS Values & How We Show It

• Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees! 
• Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - quarterly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches! 
• Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees! 
• Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration. 
• Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages. 
• Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!

ABOUT VTS

VTS is the industry's only technology platform that unifies owners, operators, brokers, and their customers across the commercial and residential real estate ecosystems. In 2013, VTS revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, the VTS Platform is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by real estate professionals across the globe.

With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE. 

VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco. 

To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.

Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $216,819 and $265,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.

EEO Guidelines
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. For more information about what we collect and how we use it, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Statement.  

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