Vice President of Engineering, Sovrn
Advertising
Office located in Boulder, CO
Advertising tools & services for content creators
Job no longer available
Advertising tools & services for content creators
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Boulder, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower independent content creators and publishers to grow their businesses and achieve the attention they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive on demonstrating value through increased revenue, reduced costs, smoother operations, and high on-time delivery rates
- You are an empathetic leader, skilled communicator, and adept at managing competing priorities
- You enjoy innovating in collaboration with others and building relationships across diverse teams
- You possess strong technical skills in high transactional and distributed systems
- You have experience in programmatic advertising and cloud operations, particularly with GCP and/or AWS
- You excel in coaching and mentoring team members
- Bonus points for experience with Java or other JVM languages, Kafka, NoSQL data stores, and a desire to be an industry thought leader
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 7+ years of adtech-specific development experience, ideally in an SSP/Exchange role
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including teams of 10 or more
- Proficiency in programmatic advertising technologies (e.g., Prebid.js, oRTB)
- Experience with Kanban, Scrum, and Agile development processes
- Demonstrated success in driving operational maturity and incident management workflows
What the job involves
- As the VP of Engineering for Sovrn's Advertising Exchange, you will lead a team of skilled engineers in both technical expertise and team management
- Your primary focus will be on prioritizing short and long-term development goals, optimizing technical operations for efficiency, and driving the evolution of our exchange platform
- Embracing a DevOps philosophy, you will oversee a cross-functional team responsible for development, coding, and infrastructure operations
- Collaboration with the VP of Exchange Product is crucial to ensure alignment between product and engineering teams, transparent communication, and on-time delivery of key initiatives
- Lead and manage in-house and outsourced engineering teams
- Recruit, onboard, and mentor a diverse group of engineers
- Provide strategic input based on your deep understanding of the ad-tech market to influence prioritization and seize market opportunities
- Collaborate with product leadership to shape the product roadmap tactically and strategically
- Monitor and enhance key engineering metrics
- Foster a culture of strong engineering design, delivery, and quality
- Identify and prioritize technical debt for retirement
- Stay informed about emerging technologies and trends in ad-tech
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to enhance overall development processes
Our take
The monetization of online content creation can be very lucrative but requires time, resources and expertise outside of writing. Passionate writers who focus on storytelling and creating inspiring content may waste valuable time attempting to develop their business, and hiring somebody to do this is often too expensive for independent writers.
Sovrn tackles this in a smart way by providing writers with simple-to-use tools that take the stress out of monetization. It works with publishers and advertisers to provide opportunities to passionate writers, allowing them to focus on excelling at their job rather than dealing with distribution, monetization and operations - all of which Sovrn is able to handle.
The startup claims to be able to drive higher revenues and scale a publishing business, at the same time as allowing writers to focus on what they do best. It has seen significant investment that will enable it to pursue acquisitions and support the further expansion of its platform with more capabilities to be added in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$35.6m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$36m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.6m
Company benefits
- Work at a company that values your strengths. See the results of your actions. There are no barriers at Sovrn
- First-class health benefits, wellness options, and a host of life-improvement perks that help you be the best you
- Retirement benefits, 401k matching, and stock options show we’re equally dedicated to financial health
- In-house barista, catered lunches and breakfasts
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation and a focus on mental and physical health mean you’ll have time for life outside the office
- Learn new skills. Pursue great ideas. Take on new opportunities and thrive in a workplace that rewards your efforts
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Walter Knapp
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Colorado, they worked as a Partner at Cambridge Technology, and Novell Ventures for a combined 6 years. They worked as SuSE Linux at Novel, COO of Lijit Networks, and COO of Federated Media Publishing before leaving in January 2014 to found Sovrn.
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