Antenna is the leading provider of data and analytics for subscription media services in the U.S. Antenna's standardized metrics, competitive benchmarks, syndicated insights, and market intelligence are trusted by some of the most recognized and respected brands across media and entertainment sectors. Using a proprietary AI-powered approach, Antenna connects subscription activities with real consumer viewership to provide services, studios, and creators with an unmatched, market-wide view of subscriber behaviors to better understand acquisition, retention, and engagement.
We're looking for a VP, Engineering to lead our data and software engineering efforts. This role demands a leader who bridges the gap between product vision and technical execution. You will translate complex requirements into a reliable, performant data platform that powers our analytics products. You must balance immediate product velocity with long-term architectural health.
You will report to Rameez Tase, Co-Founder & President. Antenna is a remote-first company, and we are looking for candidates who can work during US business hours. Preferably, you should be based in a US time zone (Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific).
What You’ll Do- Deliver our Product Roadmap: Translate product vision into a technical strategy with clear sequencing (now/next/later). Execute the roadmap through a highly accountable team, balancing immediate product velocity with the management of technical debt to ensure our ability to scale long-term.
- Cultivate Talent, Partnerships, and Communication: Lead a high-performance team of Engineers in deep partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and Data Operations.
- Facilitate an Engineering and Data Science partnership that turns R&D, such as ML models, into production features. Do this with speed to minimize the lag between innovation and deployment.
- Support internal analytics users such that they can configure, query, and QA our data efficiently, so we can release best-in-class analytics products.
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both subject matter experts and non-technical generalists to align stakeholders and manage incentives across the organization.
- Architect our data platform for both today and the future: Guarantee our data infrastructure is reliable, performant, and solves specific business questions.
- Ensure we are managing the tradeoffs between short-term and long-term technical strategy decisions.
- Focus both on the data infrastructure that allows us to deliver customer value as well as the specific insights & analytics we provide on top of that infrastructure.
- Lead AI Initiatives: Direct Antenna’s AI strategy. Implement AI technologies to enhance internal productivity, scale data collection & cleansing, and improve customer interfaces.
- Expert understanding of modern data stacks, including cloud data warehouses, ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming, and analytics layers.
- Experience designing warehouses and pipeline architectures including handling migrations and able to articulate the trade-offs of different design choices clearly.
- Expert skills in SQL, Python, GCP/BigQuery, ML Ops, Databricks/Snowflake, and dbt. Understands distributed data processing (Spark), software engineering design, and data modeling concepts.
- Experience scaling early-stage technical organizations; ability to zoom into a specific technical problem and zoom out to define long-term strategy within the same day.
- Have worked closely with Data Science teams to productionize R&D. Have direct experience with analytics products, and a deep passion not only for the architecture but also the business logic.
- Managed remote and nearshore teams effectively while maintaining a unified "one team" culture across different geographies.
- Built products that utilize data enrichment and privacy frameworks, such as clean rooms and data sharing compliance.
- Experience in maximizing team output by structuring and resourcing teams across parallel priorities (i.e. squads).
- Experience maintaining productive relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and founders and executives.
- Strong point of view on how to best leverage AI technologies to accelerate development velocity while maintaining high product quality.
Total annual earnings range from $250,000 - $300,000. In addition, our incoming VP, Engineering is eligible for company equity. The final compensation will be determined after evaluating a candidate’s experience, skills, etc.
Antenna's Benefits- Work from anywhere in the US
- Competitive base salary
- Meaningful stock options
- Full healthcare benefits
- Unlimited PTO + closed last week of December
- 401k plan with no waiting period
- Home Office Set Up reimbursement
- Monthly co-working reimbursement
- Monthly Health & Wellness reimbursement
- Parental Leave policy
- And more!
Antenna is the leading provider of data and analytics for the U.S. Subscription Economy. Our standardized metrics, competitive benchmarks, syndicated insights, and market intelligence are used by some of the most trusted brands across media and entertainment sectors to better understand subscriber behavior and successfully navigate the rapidly changing consumer subscription landscape.
Founded in 2019 by Jonathan Carson, a successful serial entrepreneur with deep roots in data and analytics, and Rameez Tase, a seasoned executive in media and analytics, Antenna’s mission is supported by top investors with global expertise in media and technology: Raine Ventures, BDMI, UTA Ventures, and many more. Antenna is powered by a dedicated group of individuals who are intellectually curious, passionate about service, and committed to supporting the needs of Antenna clients and each other every day. As a small remote-first team, Antenna team members have the opportunity to work alongside senior leaders and professionally grow with an early-stage team.
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The Subscription Economy has grown dramatically in the past decade, and is anticipated to almost triple again - from $635B to $1.5T - by 2025 [UBS].
But this growth is not just important economically. It is also dramatically changing the way that brands engage with consumers. The Subscription Economy enables brands to untether themselves from the established distribution channels and they have historically been stuck in, and to transcend transactional business models. The opportunity: deep, direct relationships with their customers, based on a long-term allegiance. And for consumers, this translates to much more choice, a dramatically better product experience, and a deeper connection with the brands they love.
The fuel for this new world is data. Brands need to deeply understand consumer behavior to survive and thrive in the Subscription Economy. Enter Antenna.
