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# Senior Manager, AI Software Engineering at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5223357007

## Job description

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

AI is part of how we work:

Human judgment, expertise, and creativity remain essential and are amplified by AI. We expect everyone in this role to use AI thoughtfully and proactively to accelerate their performance, improve the quality of their work, and explore new possibilities. We are looking for people who are curious, adaptable, and excited to help shape an AI-enabled culture that delivers better outcomes for our customers and our company.

Job brief:

The Senior Manager, AI Software Engineering is a pivotal leadership role responsible for guiding a high-performance team in the execution and deployment of cloud-native AI architectures. As a player-coach, you will balance strategic management with hands-on development, overseeing the full software lifecycle from requirements to deployment on AWS infrastructure. You will drive innovation by integrating emerging AI technologies—such as Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI—while ensuring operational excellence, effective resource allocation, and seamless collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders to advance enterprise AI adoption.

The impact you'll make:

- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers focused on AI execution, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Be a player/coach with 20% hands as part of your day to day responsibilities.
- Conduct regular performance reviews, provide feedback, and create development plans to support career growth and skill development in cloud-native AI architectures.
- Ensure effective resource allocation, team productivity, and project delivery within timelines and budget constraints.
- Oversee the entire software and AI development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design to implementation, testing, and deployment on Cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure the team adheres to best practices in coding, testing, and documentation, maintaining high standards of software quality, and operational excellence.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, and integrate them into the development process as appropriate.
- Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and other departments to define project requirements, scope, and objectives for cloud-based AI solutions.
- Communicate project status, issues, and risks to senior management and stakeholders, providing regular updates and reports on both model performance and cloud compute spend.
- Contribute to the development of the software engineering strategy, aligning it with the overall business objectives for enterprise AI adoption.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and innovation to enhance productivity and efficiency.
- Participate in long-term planning, including technology roadmaps and capacity planning to optimize AWS resource utilization for AI workloads.
- Foster strong collaboration between engineering teams, product management, and other departments to ensure alignment and effective communication.
- Act as a liaison between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, translating technical concepts into business terms.
- Other duties as assigned.

What you've accomplished:

- Must have: 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Strong proficiency in software development methodologies, full-stack engineering, and languages (e.g., NodeJS, TypeScript, concurrency, JSON, REST, AI - Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, nice to have).
- Demonstrated expertise in Fullstack development in a scalable NodeJS environment, Cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to motivate and inspire a diverse team of engineers.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities for evaluating trade-offs between design decisions.
- Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

Base Salary: $199,800 - $235,000

The base salary offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region of work premises, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

TWCo Benefits/Perks:

- Flexible Time Off program
- Hybrid work model
- Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
- Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
- Progressive family plan benefits
- An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
- Impactful work in a collaborative environment

## About The Weather Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Weather Company is a global leader in weather data, forecasting, and insights, providing scalable solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments through its portfolio of trusted brands and a robust API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of IBM)
- **Headquarters**: Brookhaven, Georgia, United States (also major hubs in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 1982 (as The Weather Channel)
- **Founders**: John Coleman (co-founder of The Weather Channel)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather Data & Forecasting, Technology, Media, Advertising, Aviation
- **Target customers**: B2B (Aviation, Media, Advertising, Government/Defense) and B2C (Consumers via The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Storm Radar)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To instill confidence, drive decisions, and propel the world by putting science and technology to work. The company aims to "drive better, faster decisions for the millions of consumers, clients, and partners who rely on us every day."

## Products & Services
- **[The Weather Channel App & Website]**: The flagship consumer brand and the most downloaded weather app, available on iOS and Android across 178 countries and 83 languages. Provides hyper-local forecasts, severe weather alerts, and lifestyle content.
- **[Weather Underground]**: A community-driven weather platform that provides hyper-local data and forecasts from a network of personal weather stations.
- **[Storm Radar]**: A dedicated severe weather tracking app providing real-time, interactive radar and storm path predictions.
- **[Weather Data API]**: A robust, enterprise-grade API platform that allows businesses to integrate weather data into their applications, business processes, or custom models. Guarantees 99.9% uptime SLA.
- **[Aviation Weather Solutions (Pilotbrief)]**: Provides preflight and in-flight weather briefings, safety tools, and performance optimization data for the aviation industry. Originally pioneered dial-up aviation weather briefings.
- **[Media Solutions]**: Provides enterprise-class production tools, visualizations, and advanced weather data to television stations and broadcasters to create personalized content and cross-platform experiences.
- **[Advertising Solutions]**: A privacy-forward, contextual advertising platform that leverages weather as a signal to deliver predictive insights and more relevant, precise campaigns for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held subsidiary of IBM). Estimated annual revenue of **$133.4M**.
- **Key Metric**: **~2.2 billion** weather forecasts produced each day for **2.2 billion** locations. The Weather Channel app has **3x more cumulative downloads** than its closest competitor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM (parent company). Key partners include hundreds of global broadcasters and thousands of enterprise customers across aviation, media, and government.
- **Growth Signals**: Named the **#1 most trusted brand in the U.S.** (Morning Consult, 2025) and the **world's most accurate forecaster** (ForecastWatch, 2021-2024). The company is investing heavily in AI to power predictive insights for advertising and consumer products. Employs 523 people (-1.6% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Accuracy & Trust**: Consistently ranked as the world's most accurate forecaster and a top 10 most trusted brand, creating a massive competitive moat in both consumer and enterprise markets.
- **Massive Data & Scale**: Processes data from billions of locations daily, with 89% of users opting in to share location data. This creates a unique, privacy-forward data asset for AI and advertising.
- **Patent Portfolio**: Holds dozens of patents for weather forecasting, data processing, and visualization technologies.
- **Deep Industry Integration**: Long-standing, mission-critical relationships in aviation (70% of air traffic delays are weather-related), media (the #1 reason people watch local news is weather), and government.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Leveraging AI to enhance forecast accuracy, deliver predictive advertising insights, and improve consumer experiences.
- **Expanding Enterprise Solutions**: Growing the B2B side of the business, particularly in Aviation, Media, and Advertising, by offering more integrated, data-rich solutions.
- **Consumer Engagement**: Maintaining and growing the massive consumer user base (50M+ daily users) through continuous app innovation and personalization.
- **Climate Adaptation**: Positioning the company as a critical partner for businesses and governments navigating an increasingly volatile climate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are driven by a purpose to help people and businesses make better decisions in the face of increasingly volatile weather. The culture is described as "curious, collaborative, and purpose-driven."
- **Strong Stability & Longevity**: Nearly half of employees have spent more than a decade at the company, indicating high retention and a stable work environment. Backed by IBM.
- **Flexibility & Perks**: Offers **partial remote work options** and a **Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy** with no limit on paid days off. Comprehensive benefits include $0 premium employee medical coverage, strong 401k match (no vesting), tuition reimbursement, and progressive family planning benefits (fertility treatments, adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, paid parental leave).
- **Cross-Functional Opportunities**: Roles span product design, technology, weather science, data & analytics, sales, marketing, and operations. Notable open roles include Senior Data Engineer, Staff Software Engineer (AI/Weather Science), and Cybersecurity Analyst.
- **Locations**: Major offices in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY.

## Sources
1. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/careers/)
2. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/)
3. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/)
4. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/leadership/)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weather-company)

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