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Salary: USD 226,300 - 296,450 / annual
iSpot.tv is transforming how brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms measure advertising outcomes across linear, streaming, and digital ecosystems. As VP of Engineering, you will own the execution, technical direction, and organizational health of engineering across iSpot's Creative, Audience, and Outcomes (CAO) product portfolio.
You will build and lead multiple engineering teams through managers and senior individual contributors, with responsibility for delivery, quality, reliability, and cost. This is a hands-on leadership role—you will review architectures, dig into incidents, read code, evaluate emerging technologies, and work directly with teams to unblock delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end engineering execution for the CAO product lines
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering organization through hiring, leveling, performance management, and succession planning
- Partner with Product Management to translate strategy into achievable roadmaps and realistic commitments
- Set technical direction and architectural standards for scalable, secure, and maintainable systems across data pipelines, services, and customer-facing applications
- Drive operational excellence: uptime, incident response, on-call health, observability, data quality, and technical debt reduction
- Establish and improve the engineering operating model—planning cadence, SDLC practices, code review standards, testing strategy, and release management
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices to raise developer throughput and quality
- Partner with Data Science to productionize methodology, models, and measurement logic at scale
- Manage engineering budget, vendor relationships, cloud spend, and capacity planning
- Ensure security, privacy, data governance, and compliance are embedded in how the organization builds and operates
- Define and report metrics that matter—delivery predictability, defect and incident rates, platform performance, unit economics, and team engagement
- Represent engineering with executives, customers, and partners
This is a highly cross-functional leadership role at the intersection of engineering, product, data science, and operations. You will partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Platform, and Go-to-Market teams to set roadmaps, resolve dependencies, and deliver on commitments across a complex, data-intensive measurement platform.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred
- 15+ years of technology experience, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations through managers
- Proven track record of shipping and operating large-scale, data-intensive SaaS products in production
- Depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern data platforms and pipelines
- Experience leading cross-functional delivery spanning engineering, product management, and data science
- Strong technical depth with the ability and willingness to remain hands-on when necessary
- Demonstrated success building engineering culture, raising the talent bar, and retaining strong teams
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business outcomes
- Demonstrated success operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments and driving organizational change
- Strong understanding of enterprise security, privacy, and data governance
PREFERRED:
- Experience within advertising technology, media measurement, marketing technology, or consumer insights platforms
- Experience with large-scale data processing and analytics platforms (streaming ingestion, warehousing, identity resolution)
- Experience integrating AI and agentic capabilities into both products and the software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with modern DevOps, SRE, and MLOps practices in cloud-native environments
- Experience leading platform migrations, replatforming efforts, or post-acquisition technical integration
- MS or advanced technical degree
