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GOBankingRates.com is a leading destination for personal finance news and information.
Launched by Jeff Bartlett and Brett Rossmann in 2004, GOBankingRates (formerly ConsumerTrack) connects people with products and services that help them to lead a richer life.
We are a multi-media content platform covering all aspects of your personal finance journey. Our curated editorial content, videos and podcasts utilize expert insight to teach readers the six key principles of financial literacy: how to earn, save, invest, spend, borrow and protect money. We strive to give readers the confidence they need to feel empowered about making smart financial decisions today, tomorrow and into the future
At GOBankingRates.com, we are dedicated to developing innovative advertising solutions that empower our partners and enhance revenue growth. We are seeking a highly skilled Ad Product Engineering Manager to lead the Ad Product Squad in creating and maintaining both standard and custom ad products, optimizing advertiser offers, and ensuring technical excellence.
If you are passionate about building effective ad solutions and possess the leadership skills necessary to guide a team of engineers, this is an exciting opportunity to directly impact our advertising operations. As part of a dynamic, fast-paced team, you will work on diverse projects that shape the future of advertising at GOBankingRates.com.
Our tech stack includes AWS, PHP, Python, Node.js, Javascript, MySQL.
The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $190,000 annually, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location, with bonus opportunities.
WHAT YOU’LL TACKLE
- Ad Product Development: Lead the Ad Product Squad in creating and maintaining ad products that maximize sales and revenue, including standard and custom ad creatives and distribution methods (e.g., API feeds).
- Sales Solutions: Design and implement flexible ad features and payout types to expand business opportunities while ensuring technical feasibility.
- Data Solutions: Develop and maintain data solutions supporting advertiser operations, including ad data tracking and advertiser onboarding processes.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT
As the Ad Product Engineering Manager, you’ll mentor and manage a team of engineers, driving the design, development, and deployment of innovative ad solutions. You will be accountable for executing your team’s roadmap and delivering robust solutions that enhance advertising effectiveness. Specific initiatives you will oversee include:
- Native Solutions: Develop and implement innovative native ad solutions.
- Creative Ad Units: Enhance flexibility and performance of creative ad units.
- Flows and New Placements: Optimize user flows and introduce new ad placements to improve visibility and engagement.
- Next Generation Funnels: Manage the transition of existing systems to next-generation solutions.
You will also work closely with product managers to prioritize technical and resource challenges within your team, balancing the need for speed with the importance of quality and correctness in all deliverables. Instilling a culture of continuous improvement will be essential as you guide your team in enhancing code quality, architecture, and processes while mentoring good technologists.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Experience:
- 6-8+ years in software engineering, specifically in ad tech or digital advertising solutions, with at least 2 years in a leadership role with direct reports.
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in Python programming, with a strong understanding of Python libraries and frameworks relevant to data processing and web development (e.g., Flask, Django, Pandas).
- At least 2 years of professional engineering experience at a fast-paced company under 200 people.
- Experience with ad serving platforms and native advertising solutions.
- Familiarity with data pipeline development and ad performance tracking.
Skills:
- Proven ability to prioritize projects and deliver results on time, even in fast-paced environments.
- A passion for technical excellence while balancing time-to-market considerations.
- Solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to overcome obstacles efficiently.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, promoting collaboration and shared success within teams.
- Commitment to Agile processes and methodologies, with the ability to manage roadmaps, sprints, and deployments.
- Passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and mentoring other engineering community members, occasionally coding or evaluating code.
- History of instilling a culture of continuous improvement in a team’s code, architecture, and processes.
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
- Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
- Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
- Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
- Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
- Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
- 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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What We Do
GOBankingRates ia a leading personal finance destination educating our audience on their money in order to LiveRicher. Our expertise includes customer acquisition, education and awareness, audience targeting and expansion and distribution across our own properties as well as Comscore Top Financial publishing partners for Fortune 1000 brands and advertisers. GOBankingRates has been a growing and profitable digital business based in Los Angeles with offices in New York and Pennsylvania for almost a decade and a half.
GOBankingRates is unique as we build and scale our own consumer-facing websites with millions of monthly users as well as drive brand awareness and new customer acquisition for our Fortune 1000 advertisers.
We are a leading personal finance site that partners with most of the larger financial portals, including MSN.com, CNN, CNBC, BusinessInsider, Time/Money/Fortune and others to give our advertisers incredible reach across billions of monthly impressions for their ads, content, and video.
Our in-house Editorial and Design Teams create original content, articles, and tools daily for GOBankingRates.com and custom content for the brands that we work with.
Our intent-driven audience seeks out our award-winning personal finance content to educate themselves on their financial situation and how to take action to improve it, to save money when shopping, best opportunities for investing and loans as well as travel ideas and budgets.
Our Culture
The biggest asset we have is our Team. We promote an entrepreneurial, friendly, results-focused remote culture that applauds innovation and embraces change. Our smart, passionate and driven employees are constantly encouraged to reach higher and think outside of the box, while enjoying high levels of collaboration. Our core values are centered around The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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