Engineering Manager, Ad Signal
£85-100k
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Video management tools
Job no longer available
Video management tools
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£85-100k
+ Share Options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
We fix the messy, expensive problems in video that everyone else ignores. Ad Signal helps content-led teams & businesses reduce cost and waste by cleaning up video libraries, streamline (AI) processing, and protect revenue by verifying when ads are aired.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
- In-depth technical experience in at least one of the core languages, frameworks, or technologies used by the team (Ruby, Python, C/C++/Rust)
- Understanding of software architecture principles
- Familiarity with the product & software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with other functional areas of your team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
- Flexible thinking, including the ability to pivot and try new approaches when faced with challenges
- Organizational, planning, and documentation skills
- Share our values of Honesty, Loyalty, Tenacity, Accountability
What the job involves
- The Engineering Manager's primary responsibility is achieving results through effective leadership
- This involves fostering a culture of growth mindset while upholding the company values of honesty, loyalty, tenacity and accountability as well as connected values such as integrity and respect
- They coach their team members towards autonomous leadership and align work assignments with individual career aspirations
- They will also be responsible for driving engineering excellence, ensuring that solutions fit the problems, and that developers are empowered and encouraged to ensure the software we create is secure, performant and reliable
- Key responsibilities include leading hiring processes, facilitating career progression, driving process improvement, promoting effective communication, and collaborating with technical and product leadership to plan, scope, and deliver products
- The Engineering Manager specialises in people management and considers their team to be their product
- While technically proficient, their focus is on team well-being, recruitment of top talent, and creating an environment for success
- They oversee the delivery of product commitments and constantly seek to enhance productivity
- Additionally, they coordinate cross-departmentally to achieve shared objectives
- The company offers potential for advancement into more senior roles
- You will report to the CTO, however the organisational structure is relatively flat, allowing access to all team members, including the CEO
- Line manage engineers
- Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
- Assist in authoring project plans
- Run agile project management processes
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas
- Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features
- Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
- Conduct interviews for candidates, focusing on team fit and culture, and train the development team to do technical interviews
- Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team, advocating for them where necessary
- Generate and implement process improvements
- Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team
- Give regular and clear feedback around the individuals performance
- Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
- Draft goals and Engineering KPIs
- Work with the CTO & product team to identify opportunities for team members to learn or grow skills
- Improve product quality, security, and performance
- Our normal working hours are 9am to 6pm, with core hours of 10am to 5pm
- Key relationships:
- Report to and work closely with the CTO
- Other members of the Ad Signal Executive team and Leadership team
- Engineering team members
- Internal product stakeholders across departments
Application process
- Phone screening with the CTO
- Technical pairing
- Final stage interview with CEO
Our take
With products focused on video, image, and audio content, Ad Signal is utilising AI to help businesses manage their content. Their solutions help content creators find assets quicker, saving them time, as well as identifying duplicates and removing them. They can also apply metadata to content, helping to organise libraries of content and archives.
With large clients such as Sky and Clearcast, it’s clear they are solving a problem in the TV advertising industry.
Ad Signal also has a sustainability angle, claiming to reduce companies' carbon footprint by reducing their need for large data storage centers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2025
$4.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $4.1m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday exc bank holidays
- Full remote company
- 3% employee pension
- Enhanced parental leave - 52 weeks paid including 6 weeks at full pay for both parents
- Flexible working
- Private health insurance through BUPA
- MacBook, monitor, keyboard and mouse provided
- £2,000 per year training budget
- Employee share options
- Meals for new parents - expense dinners for your first week of parenthood
Company values
- Honesty - We speak plainly and share the full picture, both internally and externally. That means telling the truth even when it’s uncomfortable, so that trust can be built on solid ground. Clients know we won’t oversell or overpromise. Colleagues know there’s no spin, no politics, and no fear in raising concerns.
- Loyalty - We back each other and our customers. That means stepping up when things get tough, not walking away. We act as true partners - not just vendors - and we take pride in shared wins.
- Tenacity - We go after the hard stuff and we don’t quit. Our own brand of agility means staying close to the challenge, adapting fast, and matching the tools or process to the task, not the other way around. It’s not about late nights or heroics. It’s about solving the unsolvable without compromise.
- Accountability - We take ownership of our work, our mistakes, and our improvements. There’s no blame culture here. When something goes wrong, we raise our hands, fix it fast, and share what we’ve learned. Problems don’t belong to individuals, they belong to the company, and we solve them together.
Company HQ
Fully remote
Articles
Leadership
Tom Dunning
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Developer in the broadcasters for many years. Founded Ad Signal to solve issues they had experienced in the industry.
Anson Kelly
(CTO)Anson has built and led multiple successful cross-functional teams, managing large, mission-critical datasets and applying his technical expertise to solve complex business challenges.
Mike Duffy
(Co-Founder)A highly experienced doer of technology, Mike brings 25 years of technology experience, including Media, Telecoms, Publishing and Industrial industries.
Colin Stonelake
(CFO)Colin has specialised in audit, finance, business transformation, and programme management throughout his 40-year career.
Sophie Bartlett
(COO)Sophie has 15+ years experience of optimising operations, building teams and the relevant processes that support sustainable growth and long-term success within a fast-paced environment.
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