Requirements

• This role requires the leadership skills and vision to build and optimize engineering practices and manage and mentor a team of engineers, with an eye for scale and continuous improvement
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• Additionally, this role requires excellence across the technical spectrum and the desire to contribute hands-on to building products, dive deep into advertising and the ad tech ecosystem, and creative thinking
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• 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a track record of building and operating distributed systems at scale
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• 4+ years of experience managing multiple teams and individuals
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• Experience managing products and teams across multiple locations/timezones
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• Experience working with offshore teams is a plus
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• Strong capabilities of observation, analysis, synthesis
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• Excellent written and oral communication skills
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• Experience shepherding early-stage products through multiple iterations
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• Passion and expertise in agile engineering practices and building DevOps culture
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• Proven experience working with customers and stakeholders at the highest level
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• Experience working with demand side platforms (DSP) and supply side platforms (SSP)
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• BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields

What the job involves

• As a Senior Director of Engineering, you will join and lead a growing team focused on transforming the way out-of-home (OOH) advertising assets are connected with programmatic ad tech platforms across the broader digital advertising ecosystem
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• You will be leading ~4 full-stack teams (full-time employees, and offshore) supporting growth across 2 business pillars
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• You will be expected to span a number of different roles, with your time roughly focused on:
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• 50% Product Delivery & Technical Implementation:
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• Work with Product and executive stakeholders to build market-leading products
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• Implement product features, driving technical and quality practices
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• Implement and/or build tools to improve Testing, Deployment, Automation
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• Develop and evangelize standards for coding, data, tooling, operations
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• 25% Staff & Organizational Development:
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• Recruit, retain, and grow outstanding engineering talent
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• Proactively identify skill and experience needs, recruiting or developing staff to fill
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• Work with each engineer, to provide continuous feedback, and support growth
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• 25% Partner Management:
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• Partner Evangelism, Integration, Testing, and Support
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• Drive creation of appropriate technical documentation
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• Drive processes for discovering, managing, and resolving issues and incidents
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• Your first 30 days:
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• Learn and understand Place Exchange’s corporate, departmental and team goals
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• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange career ladder and resources available for a manager
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• Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap
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• Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform
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• Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues
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• Meet the team and schedule 1:1s with direct reports
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• Meet the stakeholders and schedule 1:1s with business counterparts
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• Your first 60 days:
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• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange landscape
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• Create/manage lightweight processes to help the teams function better
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• Pair with team members on committed initiatives
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• Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices
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• Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives
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• Your first 90 days:
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• Provide technical leadership in the development team
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• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools
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• Deliver projects on time and budget, ensuring quality standards are met
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• Mentor and develop team members, provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams
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• Baseline career status and trajectory for direct reports and start thinking about avenues of career growth
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• Help define and enforce development practices, including unit tests and code reviews
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• Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy

• Startup culture, focused on developing innovative solutions at a fast pace
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• Opportunity to own meaningful work streams and drive real impact for the business
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• Comprehensive health benefits
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• Commuter benefits
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• 401k with match
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• Equity incentives
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• Generous time off: 20 PTO days, sick days, and Summer Fridays
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• Monthly cell phone and quarterly work-from-home stipends
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• Place Exchange Gives Back program with volunteer opportunities and charity donation matching
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• Flexible hybrid work environment
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• Opportunity to grow, have fun and be part of a fast-growing company changing the face of an industry
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• Direct access to work with and learn from an experienced management team, passionate about the business and the development of our employees