Senior Manager, Digital Partnerships & Integrations at AHEAD – Chicago, Illinois

AHEAD is seeking a strategic and technically adept Senior Manager of Digital Partnerships & Integrations to lead the team responsible for the automations and data pipelines that power our Hatch and Unity platforms. This team is the connective tissue between AHEAD and the outside world, pulling data from vendors, partners, and third-party systems and transforming it into the reliable, actionable information our customers depend on.

If you've ever worked with external data, you know the reality: it's messy, inconsistent, and constantly changing. Our integrations team tackles this challenge head-on, leveraging n8n for workflow automation and deploying AI agents to intelligently clean, normalize, and enrich incoming data. The final step brings that data into our Elixir-based platform where it surfaces in Hatch and Unity for customers and internal teams alike.

In this role, you'll manage a distributed team across the US and India, requiring strong communication skills and experience coordinating work across time zones. You'll balance hands-on technical guidance with people leadership, ensuring your team has clear priorities, the right tools, and the support they need to build robust, scalable integrations.

• Establish partnerships with our vendors and OEMs for API driven data access

• Own the strategy and execution for integrations that connect AHEAD to vendors, partners, and third-party data sources

• Lead and develop a geographically distributed team of developers and automation engineers

• Oversee the design and maintenance of automation workflows in n8n

• Guide the development and deployment of AI agents that clean, validate, and transform external data

• Partner with the Application Development and Foundry Development teams to ensure seamless data ingestion

• Establish standards for integration reliability, monitoring, error handling, and data quality

• Manage team capacity and prioritization across multiple concurrent integration projects

• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and invest in the growth of your team members

• Participate in hiring efforts to grow the team as integration demands expand

• Communicate status, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders across the business

• Continuously evaluate and improve the tools, patterns, and processes the team uses

• 5+ years of experience in leadership, including geographically distributed teams.

• Strong experience in logistics, and asset monitoring, and ITAM tools

• Experience in B2B, supply chain, or IT asset management environments

• Excellent communication skills with both employees and 3rd party vendors

• Strong understand of integrations, ETL, data pipelines, or automation engineering

• Familiarity with workflow automation tools (n8n, Boomi, or MuleSoft)

• Understanding of AI/LLM applications for data processing, validation, or transformation

• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects with multiple dependencies

• Comfortable working with messy, inconsistent data from external sources

• Understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, and common integration patterns

• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to building reliable systems

• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability for automated workflows

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