Senior Technical Program Manager

criteo; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company at the forefront of advertising technology. In this role, you will tackle complex challenges in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with product, engineering, and operations teams to launch impactful products. Criteo offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and a diverse team, where your contributions will directly influence the future of digital advertising. With a strong emphasis on empowerment and mobility, you will thrive in a culture that encourages collaboration and personal growth. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

100% Healthcare premium coverage

Generous Vacation policy

Fidelity 401(k) with company matching

Snacks and Happy Hour

Monthly Massages

Ping-pong and Music Room

Cool Off-sites

Career advancement opportunities

Great office in Downtown Palo Alto

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software industry with a passion for technology.
• Experience managing end-to-end software development cycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage, launch, and evolve high-impact products.
• Drive complex cross-functional projects and resolve dependencies.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Project Management

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Software Development Lifecycle

E-commerce experience

Big Data

Machine Learning

Education

BS in Software Engineering

MS in Software Engineering

Job description

At Criteo we face some of the most challenging and interesting problems in the advertising software industry. We work at a scale of speed, performance and complexity that few others in the industry have. Our dataset is about 40 petabytes in Hadoop (more than 30 TB extra per day), we take less than 10ms to respond to an ad request and we deliver billions of ads per day.
To help us solve these challenges, Criteo in Palo Alto is looking for the best of the best for our geeky environment!

Opportunities for you:

• Work with the product, engineering and operations teams to manage, launch and evolve high-impact products.
• Own and drive complex cross-functional projects.
• Identify key dependencies and risks, and partner with other teams to get these resolved.

What You Bring to the Role:

• BS/MS in Software Engineering or related software product role.
• 4+ years of experience in software industry and a passion for technology.
• A keen sense of ownership and experience managing end-to-end SW development cycle.
• Technical Program Management experience with e-commerce, big data or online web services.
• Project Management experience balancing resources and competing priorities.
• Awesome problem-solving skills and extreme attention to detail.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills in English (French is a plus). Influence without authority. Able to interact with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Bonus Points:

• Previous experience as a tech lead in the software industry.
• Experience managing international projects and people.
• Experience with launching Internet services.
• Strong exposure to complex machine learning, scaling and system performance challenges.

Criteo R&D Culture:

• Empowerment - We believe in bottom-up development.
• Mobility & Variety – In our Voyager program, engineers choose any team with whom to work for 2-4 weeks, boosting collaboration, networking and maybe even leading to switching teams.
• Agility - We work in a fast-paced environment where we release stuff frequently for nimble response to the market.
• Multicultural – We have engineers from all over the world to interact and exchange ideas.

Learn More about Criteo R&D in Palo Alto:

Our blog: http://www.criteolabs.com

About Criteo [CRTO]:

Criteo (CRTO) delivers personalized performance marketing at an extensive scale. Measuring return on post-click sales, Criteo makes ROI transparent and easy to measure. Criteo has over 2,200 employees in 30 offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, serving 13,000 advertisers worldwide and with direct relationships with 17,500 publishers.

Our R&D team is building the next generation digital advertising technologies that allow us to manage billions of ad impressions every day. We're working in a very fast-paced release cycle and are adding new capabilities weekly and even daily.

A few figures:

• 15 datacenters (8 with computing capacity + 7 dedicated to network connectivity) across the globe.
• More than 15K servers, running a mix of Linux and Windows.
• One of the largest Hadoop clusters in Europe with close to 40PB of storage.
• 30B HTTP requests and close to 3B unique banners displayed per day.
• Close to 1M HTTP requests per second handled during peak times.

Other Reasons to Work with Us:

• Competitive Compensation
• 100% coverage of Healthcare premium
• Career advancement, global mobility encouraged
• Generous Vacation policy
• Fidelity 401(k) with company matching
• Great office in Downtown Palo Alto
• Fun Place to work – Snacks, Happy Hour, Monthly Massages, Ping-pong, Music Room, Cool Off-sites

To all recruitment agencies: Criteo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Criteo employees or any other company location. Criteo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Criteo is an Equal Opportunity Employer