Engineering Director (Adserving)

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Description

Position at Choreograph

WHO WE ARE

Choreograph is WPP's global data products and technology company. We're on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation.

We work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. We deliver this through the Open Media Studio, an AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.

We're endlessly curious. Our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 1,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world.

ABOUT CHOREOGRAPH OPTIMIZATION

We're a Product & Engineering team within Choreograph that's focused on optimizing the impact that advertising has for audiences and the brands that we work with. We do this by optimizing media buying and employing dynamic creative, to deliver impactful and relevant messages.

This role will work primarily on our Creative Optimization product, an omnichannel dynamic content optimisation (DCO) platform. We utilize AI to optimize for the best performing content, helping advertisers to tell the right story at the right time, and audiences to see messages that matter.

Our culture is based on mutual trust, sharing, building, and learning together. We value simplicity, maintainability, automation, and metrics.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As our Engineering Director for Ad Serving, you will work side by side with Product, Support, Services, platform partners, and your Ad Serving engineering team to design, build, deliver and operate our ad server. The role is a hands-on player/coach role, involving people leadership, operational management, hands-on development and technical duties, including operational management of the tech behind our global, 24x7 ad serving operation.

As a leader in our Optimization Engineering practice, you'll work with Product, Operations, other Engineering Directors and principal engineers, and our VP Software Engineering, to shape our practice. Additionally, you'll coach and support junior engineers and contribute to the evolution of the team's principles, practices, and tools.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead our Adserving engineering team, overseeing and participating in all stages of development, delivery and operations.
• Manage our ad server as a product, devising and maintain our strategy, develop and drive execution of our roadmap.
• Architect solutions that are simple, scalable, reliable, secure, maintainable, and make a measurable impact.
• Develop and deliver new features, maintain our product, and drive growth to hit team KPIs.
• Employ and champion modern pragmatic engineering principles, practices, and tooling.
• Take a leadership role in driving ongoing improvements to our engineering principles, practices, and tooling.
• Develop and maintain a contemporary understanding of AdTech developments, industry standards, partner and competitor platform developments, and commercial models.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• AdTech leadership experience across both software engineering leadership and ad serving / ad operations leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing simple / scalable / reliable architectures and building concurrent, distributed systems.
• Proven experience and a passion for developing and operating concurrent distributed systems leveraging k8s, and AWS or GCP.
• Proven experience contributing to product strategy development with Product Management teams.
• Proven experience in modern software development and testing practices.
• A focus on continuous learning and improving, both technically and professionally.
• Demonstrated resilience, with experience working in ambiguous situations.
• Strong English, excellent influencing and communication skills, and excellent documentation skills.

If you are ready to be at the forefront of the AdTech industry, we encourage you to apply and join our team.

Choreograph is the beating heart of data inside WPP's media investment group, GroupM. Discover more about Choreograph at www.choreograph.com

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