Director of Engineering, Place Exchange
+ Equity
Programmatic exchange for out-of-home media
Open for applications
Programmatic exchange for out-of-home media
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform the entire OOH channel to be truly programmatic for buyers and sellers.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires the leadership skills and vision to build and optimize engineering practices and manage and mentor a team of engineers, with an eye for scale and continuous improvement
- Additionally, this role requires excellence across the technical spectrum and the desire to contribute hands-on to building products, dive deep into advertising and the ad tech ecosystem, and creative thinking
- 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a track record of building and operating distributed systems at scale
- 4+ years of experience managing multiple teams and individuals
- Experience managing products and teams across multiple locations/timezones
- Experience working with offshore teams is a plus
- Strong capabilities of observation, analysis, synthesis
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience shepherding early-stage products through multiple iterations
- Passion and expertise in agile engineering practices and building DevOps culture
- Proven experience working with customers and stakeholders at the highest level
- Experience working with demand side platforms (DSP) and supply side platforms (SSP)
- BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields
What the job involves
- As a Senior Director of Engineering, you will join and lead a growing team focused on transforming the way out-of-home (OOH) advertising assets are connected with programmatic ad tech platforms across the broader digital advertising ecosystem
- You will be leading ~4 full-stack teams (full-time employees, and offshore) supporting growth across 2 business pillars
- You will be expected to span a number of different roles, with your time roughly focused on:
- 50% Product Delivery & Technical Implementation:
- Work with Product and executive stakeholders to build market-leading products
- Implement product features, driving technical and quality practices
- Implement and/or build tools to improve Testing, Deployment, Automation
- Develop and evangelize standards for coding, data, tooling, operations
- 25% Staff & Organizational Development:
- Recruit, retain, and grow outstanding engineering talent
- Proactively identify skill and experience needs, recruiting or developing staff to fill
- Work with each engineer, to provide continuous feedback, and support growth
- 25% Partner Management:
- Partner Evangelism, Integration, Testing, and Support
- Drive creation of appropriate technical documentation
- Drive processes for discovering, managing, and resolving issues and incidents
- Your first 30 days:
- Learn and understand Place Exchange’s corporate, departmental and team goals
- Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange career ladder and resources available for a manager
- Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap
- Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform
- Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues
- Meet the team and schedule 1:1s with direct reports
- Meet the stakeholders and schedule 1:1s with business counterparts
- Your first 60 days:
- Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange landscape
- Create/manage lightweight processes to help the teams function better
- Pair with team members on committed initiatives
- Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices
- Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives
- Your first 90 days:
- Provide technical leadership in the development team
- Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools
- Deliver projects on time and budget, ensuring quality standards are met
- Mentor and develop team members, provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams
- Baseline career status and trajectory for direct reports and start thinking about avenues of career growth
- Help define and enforce development practices, including unit tests and code reviews
- Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy
Application process
- 1 or 2 preliminary phone screens of 45 min each meeting:
- Hiring Manager / VP of Engineering
- Development team (to gauge problem solving skills)
- Virtual onsite that consists of 4-5 rounds (45 mins each) spread across 1 or 2 days meeting:
- Stakeholders (like Operations & Partnerships)
- Product Team
- Engineering Team (to gauge technical architectural skills)
- Hiring Manager / Director of Engineering
- Final Round:
- Executive Round (optional)
Our take
With marketing campaigns stretched across multiple channels, brands must ensure consistency in order to foster strong customer relationships. However, this can be difficult because digital out-of-home media, such as billboards, are usually controlled through different entities than online and mobile advertisements. Place Exchange’s supply-side platform allows companies to connect out-of-home media to other digital channels, creating a more unified marketing campaign.
Omnichannel marketing has already been well achieved in mobile and online advertisement, but Place Exchange’s patented technology delivers a way for businesses to also integrate digital out-of-home marketing and hence control entire campaigns from a single interface. The platform combines the workflows, reporting, and attribution of DOOH, mobile and online advertisements, and allows the same creatives to work cross-channel towards brand continuity.
Place Exchange has partnered with several digital out-of-home advertisement providers to expand the marketing options available through its platform. Investment in the company will be used to broaden its product offerings and expand into new markets.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $20m
Company benefits
- Startup culture, focused on developing innovative solutions at a fast pace
- Opportunity to own meaningful work streams and drive real impact for the business
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Commuter benefits
- 401k with match
- Equity incentives
- Generous time off: 20 PTO days, sick days, and Summer Fridays
- Monthly cell phone and quarterly work-from-home stipends
- Place Exchange Gives Back program with volunteer opportunities and charity donation matching
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Opportunity to grow, have fun and be part of a fast-growing company changing the face of an industry
- Direct access to work with and learn from an experienced management team, passionate about the business and the development of our employees
Company values
- Innovation: We get excited by tackling challenging problems, conceiving new ideas that can move the needle, and bringing them to life
- Collaboration: The only way we can win is together, by relying on, trusting, and supporting our fellow teammates and our external partners
- Agility: We embrace a growth mindset to stay ahead of the curve by being open and flexible, always learning and continuously improving our technology, our organization, and ourselves
- Impact: Our success is measured by the impact we generate for our partners, our industry, and our community
- Transparency: Our relationships with each other and our partners are founded on trust, which requires a shared foundation of information that is open and freely flowing
- Integrity: In our decisions and our actions, we always strive to do the right thing by our clients, our partners, and our team
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
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Leadership
Ari Buchalter
(CEO)Former CEO at Intersection Co, and former COO at MediaMath. Previously Senior Partner in Digital Media and Technology at Rosetta.
Jason Shao
(COO)Principal at Contingency2. Former Head of Engineering at Intersection. Previously VP of Engineering at Wyng and at PlaceIQ.
Dave Etherington
(CCO)Former Chief Strategy Officer at Intersection. Worked as Executive Vice President at Titan, and previously as Strategic Manager at Guardian News and Media.
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