WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing engineering managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.
- Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the Activation product suite, aligning with product and business objectives to deliver best-in-class advertising solutions.
- Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle for your teams, from strategic planning and prioritization to execution, deployment, and maintenance, establishing and enforcing best practices along the way.
- Drive the architectural evolution of our activation platforms, including the successful integration and future development of the Semasio activation technology stack.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, and other cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into scalable, robust, and reliable technical designs and systems.
- Serve as a key technical voice in discussions with senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders, effectively communicating complex technical concepts, risks, and opportunities.
- Manage team resources, project timelines, and deliverables to ensure predictable and high-quality outcomes.
WHO YOU ARE
- Based in SF, with the ability to work in a hybrid model (3 days/week in the office) and maintain a flexible schedule to ensure overlap with Europe-based teams.
- 8-10+ years of overall software development experience, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, large-scale systems.
- At least 5 years of engineering management experience, with a proven track record of developing and managing other managers as well as ICs.
- Familiarity with fundamental concepts of the adtech ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with digital ad targeting, and familiarity with both ID-based and contextual advertising technologies and methodologies.
- Proficiency with cloud computing environments, preferable AWS and Google Cloud.
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining pipelines with large-scale ETL systems and data processing frameworks–preferably Spark or Databricks.
- Solid experience with API design, development, and maintenance, and a strong understanding of web application architecture.
- The proven ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies and support teams using them.
Desired Attributes
- Exceptional Leadership: An ability to inspire and develop technical talent, providing effective feedback and coaching to grow managers and leaders within your teams.
- Strategic Thinker: The capacity to generate and execute a long-term technical roadmap, making informed decisions about priority, scope, and trade-offs.
- Outstanding Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Data-Driven Mindset: Familiarity with foundational machine learning and AI concepts, such as lookalike modeling techniques and vector embeddings, and an understanding of their practical applications.
- Process-Oriented: A passion for establishing and refining software development best practices, including defining and introducing new tools, processes, and quality metrics to improve team velocity and product quality.
Top Skills
What We Do
Television remains a vibrant cultural influence and an essential source of entertainment and information worldwide. Tremendous growth in content choices, and viewing platforms that allow us to watch anything, anytime, on any screen, has actually made it harder for viewers to discover and keep up with all the great programming available. It’s also more competitive for content providers to keep your attention, and for marketers to make strong, measurable connections with their target consumers.
Technology that improves the viewing experience, enables content discovery, and addresses audience fragmentation across screens will strengthen television’s business model and relevance to consumers. Data is at the center of any solution to make TV better.
Samba TV's technology is built into Smart TVs and easily maps to smart phones and tablets. By recognizing what's on screen, Samba TV learns what viewers like and using machine learning algorithms, enables discovery of shows and actors in a whole new way. Likewise, our data and measurement products are transforming the way stakeholders across the media landscape are thinking about their business. Given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients.
