Tubi is a global entertainment company and the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S. and Canada. Dedicated to providing all people access to all the world’s stories, Tubi offers the largest collection of on-demand content, including over 250,000 premium movies and TV episodes and over 300 exclusive originals. With a passionate fanbase and over 80 million monthly active viewers, the company is committed to putting viewers first with free, accessible entertainment for all.
Role Overview:
The SVP of Engineering will lead Tubi's engineering efforts across Discovery & AI. You will drive innovation in personalized recommendations, search, and content intelligence, providing viewers with seamless, intuitive ways to discover and watch the content they love. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with product, data science, design, and engineering leaders, and oversee multiple engineering teams focused on improving user personalization and content discovery.
This leadership position is pivotal to delivering best-in-class personalization and driving engagement through machine learning-powered user experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and scale engineering teams focused on personalized content recommendations, AI/ML-driven discovery experiences, and search functionality.
- Drive the technical strategy for Tubi, partnering with cross-functional leaders in product, data science, and design to deliver engaging, user-friendly experiences.
- Oversee the engineering function across multiple areas, including:
- New User Personalization: Leverage AI/ML to quickly learn and serve content tailored to first-time users.
- Returning User Personalization: Enhance recommendations for repeat users through advanced deep learning methods.
- Content Understanding: Analyze and categorize content to effectively match it with the right audiences.
- Search: Develop a best-in-class search engine optimized for video entertainment.
- Discovery Experiences: Reduce decision friction and improve content discovery to enhance viewer retention.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within engineering teams, ensuring a high level of execution and technical expertise.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to align engineering priorities with strategic goals and long-term vision.
- Define and track key performance metrics to measure the success of personalization, search, and discovery initiatives.
- Advocate for modern engineering practices and champion the adoption of AI/ML-driven technologies that enhance user experience.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 8 years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams within high-growth tech environments, particularly in AI/ML or personalization technology.
- Expertise in AI/ML technologies, including deep learning, recommendation systems, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience delivering personalized content discovery solutions, search functionality, or related machine learning systems for consumer-facing digital platforms.
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, data science, and design.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a focus on driving alignment across engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) and modern engineering tools and practices.
- Passion for innovation and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences through technology.
What We Offer:
- The opportunity to lead the technical strategy and execution for the biggest free streaming platform in the industry with the largest catalog of content with AI at the core of its strategy.
- A dynamic, collaborative work environment that encourages creativity, innovation, and a customer-first approach.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and equity packages.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development in a cutting-edge technology organization.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
California and Seattle, WA Compensation
$550,000 to $600,000 / year + Bonus + Long-Term Incentive Plan + Benefits
Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:
- For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
- For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
- For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of the birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
- For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.
Tubi is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company.
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What We Do
Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 40,000 movies and TV shows in the U.S., including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 145+ local and live news, sports and entertainment channels, and 400+ entertainment partners, featuring content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives fans of film, television, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is completely free.
Tubi is available in the U.S. on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, LG TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.
