Technical Manager - Creative Serving

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.

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