Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
About the Creative Serving team
The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in serving every ad across Liftoff’s product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. Creative Serving systems are deep, strategic integrations with our partner exchanges, and require impeccable uptime to drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal Vungle Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities.
As a Technical Manager on the Creative Serving team, you will:
- Define, shape, and clearly communicate our long-term creative serving strategy, vision, and roadmap.
- Translate business goals into team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders.
- Work closely with ML and product stakeholders at Liftoff, ensuring our creative serving infrastructure meets their needs with a consistently high quality bar.
- Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring a steady stream of improvements as your team builds for the long term.
- Set the bar for our engineering culture, encouraging the development of best practices, holding individuals accountable for slippage, and improving processes.
- Provide deep technical feedback on key projects as necessary.
- Grow the next generation of engineers and leaders.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering; 2+ managing engineers.
- Proven track record of building and scaling engineering systems, including design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
- Excellent technical judgment; able to dive deep, review designs, navigate complex code bases, and give substantive feedback.
- Solid engineering and coding skills.
- Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Go and HTML/CSS/JS is a plus.
- Experience with ad tech is a solid plus.
Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.
We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.
Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.
The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, Seattle, NYC:: $205,000 - $255,000
- Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $188,000 - $234,000
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $176,000 - $219,000
Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next.
Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.
Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering
- 2+ years managing engineers
- Proven track record of building and scaling engineering systems (design, implementation, testing, maintenance)
- Excellent technical judgment; able to dive deep, review designs, navigate complex code bases, and give substantive feedback
- Solid engineering and coding skills
- Excellent team communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with Go
- Experience with HTML/CSS/JS
- Experience with ad tech
What the Team is Saying
Liftoff Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes employer-provided medical, dental, and vision with plan choices, plus mental health support and FSA options.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes fertility and adoption assistance, childcare benefits, a Family Planning Stipend up to $15,000, and a post‑parental leave return‑to‑work program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes unlimited/flexible PTO, paid sick days, bereavement leave, paid volunteer time, and a global year‑end office closure.
Liftoff Insights
What We Do
Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand. Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence. Come join the rocket ship! 🚀
Why Work With Us
Join Liftoff, where innovation meets impact in a fast-changing global market. We’re a remote-first, hybrid-optional company driven by our values—Growth Mindset, Data-Driven, Agency & Urgency, and Togetherness. Our R&D and GTM teams solve complex technical challenges at scale, while our G&A pros keep us moving fast and supported.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a remote first company with Hubs located around the world. These Hubs are a place for employees and teams to gather for purposeful, collaborative and productive work and to host events throughout the year.
