Manager III, Software Development - Content Data Platform

ABOUT onX

We’re a team of builders, adventurers, and risk takers using technology to help people confidently explore the outdoors. Driven by our mission to awaken the adventurer inside everyone, we build products that optimize every outdoor experience and inspire confidence to get out and go further.

We’re a high-growth tech company. The pace is fast, the work takes grit, and ambiguity is part of the job. As the world changes around us, we adapt - continuously evolving how we build, prioritize, and deliver.

Our business moves quickly, and there’s real opportunity to shape what we build next. Each of our verticals - Hunt, Offroad, Backcountry, and Fish - is at a different stage of maturity, which means the challenges you encounter and the impact you have will vary depending on where you sit and what the business needs most.

We operate with an experimentation mindset, continually iterating and improving how we solve problems. We expect our people to use the latest tooling, including AI, thoughtfully and responsibly, pairing human judgment with technology to increase quality, speed, and impact.

Our impact comes to life through the products we build, in the stories of our customers, and in our growing commitment to land stewardship and recreational access.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

onX is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Content Data Platform team -- the engineering team responsible for the data infrastructure that puts accurate, current, and complete content on onX's maps. You'll lead a cross-functional team of data engineers and geospatial analysts who own the full map content data lifecycle: ingesting authoritative data from hundreds of sources, conflating multi-source inputs into a canonical truth with per-fact provenance, and delivering consistent outputs to every downstream consumer. This is a high-impact role at the center of onX's content strategy, operating within the Content Engineering organization and reporting to the Director of Engineering.

As an onX Software Development Manager, your day to day responsibilities would look like:

(Essential Job Duties)

Make great engineers better. You'll support your teammates with individual goal-setting, professional development, and mentoring. You'll coach engineers through structured growth plans and partner with senior/staff-level ICs to set technical direction for the team.

Deliver the platform. Collaborating with the Data Engineering team, you'll 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. You'll work closely with your peers to hire smart, creative, and kind engineers. You'll be responsible for building and sustaining a healthy team culture where ownership and collaboration are the norm. You’ll 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. You'll 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. You'll 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. You’ll 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. You hold the bar for data quality and governance high and don’t let it slip under delivery pressure.

Translate and communicate. You'll translate business strategy and content team priorities into clear engineering direction, helping your team understand why their work matters. You'll articulate the value of platform investments to stakeholders who care about outcomes like fresher trail data or more accurate land ownership boundaries -- not pipeline architecture. You're effective in a matrixed environment where your ability to influence without authority matters as much as your ability to execute

Collaborate. You'll serve as the engineering interface for vertical product teams (Hunt, Offroad, Fish, Backcountry), data delivery, and the geospatial editing team. You'll manage dependencies, push back on one-off pipeline requests in favor of durable platform capabilities, and maintain high cross-functional alignment.

LOCATION

onX has created a thriving distributed workforce community across several US locations. This position can be performed from an onX corporate office, “Basecamp,” or “Connection Hub.”

Corporate Offices : onX was founded in Montana with offices in Missoula and Bozeman. If you prefer to work in an office at least part of the time this is a great option.

Basecamps : Basecamps are established virtual workforce communities where a sizable number of distributed team members group for work, volunteering, socializing, and adventure.

Our current Basecamps are located within a 90-mile radius of the following: Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Kalispell, MT; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Salt Lake City, UT; and Seattle, WA.

Connection Hubs : Connection Hub locations are smaller, emerging communities of distributed team members.

Our current Connection Hubs are located within a 60-mile radius of the following: Boise, ID; Charleston, SC; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Richmond, VA; Spokane, WA; and Vermont.

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 -- not just BI or analytics, but the pipelines, storage layers, and operational systems that produce data other teams depend on.

Experience leading a team through migration off a legacy system to modern infrastructure, including sequencing work without breaking production and maintaining velocity across the transition.

Proven track record of breaking down large, long-horizon projects into milestones that deliver incremental business value -- you don't let platform work disappear into a multi-year black box.

You've managed or closely partnered with cross-functional teams that aren't organized along traditional engineering/analytics lines, and you know how to build systems that serve domain experts as primary operators.

You have strong hiring and team development instincts. You know how to identify and recruit strong data engineers, how to evaluate domain-specific expertise, and how to develop engineers into modern data platform patterns.

You can engage substantively on architectural decisions and are comfortable challenging existing assumptions -- ELT patterns, schema evolution, change data capture, data contracts, compute engine trade-offs -- and help your team resolve open questions rather than escalate them.

You communicate well with executives and non-technical stakeholders, and can build organizational buy-in for long-horizon infrastructure investments while pushing the team for incremental delivery.

You're comfortable using AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity and can help your team adopt them effectively.

A shared passion for and ability to demonstrate onX's Company Values.

Permanent US work authorization is a condition of employment with onX.

Ability to travel for multiple days to a