Vice President of Identity, Zeta Global
Engineering
$400-500k
+ Equity
The AI marketing cloud
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The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$400-500k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable brands to build repeatable and scalable programs that accelerate business growth, efficiently, and effectively, and drive higher ROI on their marketing investments.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of engineering leadership, including significant time leading large-scale identity or data platforms
- Deep domain expertise in identity resolution, identity graphs, and data enrichment—preferably with experience from a top competitor or parallel industry
- Understand applicability, pros & cons & effectiveness of data engineering design patterns & concepts such as Data Lakehouse, Data Table Format, Zero-Copy Data Sharing, Cleanroom, Real-Time vs Batch Data Processing, High throughput distributed system APIs
- Possess experience working on data technologies equivalent to:
- Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
- Iceberg, Hudi, Delta
- EMR, Airflow, Spark
- Aerospike, Scylla, DynamoDB
- Proven experience managing 50+ person organizations, including directors and senior engineering managers
- Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance, including global standards such as GDPR and CCPA
- Track record of innovation and driving measurable outcomes, including AI-driven or data-driven product capabilities
- Exceptional communication skills
What the job involves
- As the Head of Identity & Data Platform, you will own and evolve one of the most critical layers of Zeta’s platform—the systems that power identity resolution, data ingestion, enrichment, and activation
- You will lead a 50–60+ person engineering organization and define the long-term strategy for how identity and data power AI-native applications across the company
- This is a highly strategic and technical leadership role requiring deep domain expertise in identity management, strong organizational leadership, and the ability to operate at both architectural and executive levels
- You will directly report to the EVP & Head of Engineering
- Own and define the strategic roadmap for the Identity & Data Layer, covering the full lifecycle (ingest → resolve → enrich → activate), with clear accountability for scalability, accuracy, latency, and reliability SLAs
- Lead and inspire a team of ~50 engineers,
- Own the evolution of identity resolution and identity graph systems, advancing deterministic and probabilistic matching, cross-channel identity, and real-time enrichment as core competitive capabilities
- Drive the evolution
- Collaborate cross-functionally with AI, marketing, and product teams to ensure seamless integration of identity services across Zeta’s platform
- Establish the data layer as the context engine for Zeta’s AI-native platform, enabling real-time features, embeddings, and data access for models, agents, and downstream applications
- Benchmark against industry leaders and innovate ahead of the market in identity solutions
- Ensure compliance with privacy and data governance standards (e.g., CCPA, GDPR)
- Recruit, mentor, and develop top talent, while creating a strong succession plan for critical roles
- Partner with executive leadership on strategy, investment, and prioritization, aligning platform evolution with business outcomes and long-term scalability
- Collaborate with DevEx and AI Enablement teams to drive adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the data layer, improving developer productivity, code quality, and system evolution velocity
Our take
Zeta Global is a cloud-based AI marketing platform helping companies acquire, grow and retain customers more efficiently. Its flagship Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) combines identity resolution, consumer intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform. Using one of the industry's largest proprietary database and advanced AI, Zeta makes personalized marketing simple for enterprise brands worldwide.
Its platform is particularly valuable in today's privacy-first, data-driven marketing environment. It helps brands understand individual customers and deliver relevant experience across every channel, from email and SMS ot digital and social. Serving top advertisers and Fortune 500 companies, Zeta turns complex data into actionable insights, so markets have a deeper relationship with their customers and drive measurable results in a competitive landscape.
Recently, Zeta expanded its capabilities with acquisition of Marigold's enterprise software business, adding over 100 enterprise clients and new loyalty and engagement tools. This strenghten's Zeta's "One Zeta" model, creates cross-selling opportunities, and extends its footpirnt in EMEA and APAC. Also backed by strong AI investments, a massive proprietary identity graph, and consistent revenue growth, Zeta is in a good position to help brands deliver smarter, more personalized marketing at scale for years to come.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2017
$115m
SERIES F
Jul 2015
$125m
LATE VC
Total funding: $310m
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
David A Steinberg
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board)Prior to founding Zeta and CAIVIS, they founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004
John Sculley
(Co-Founder, Vice Chairman of ther Board & Investor)Former CEO of Apple Computer. They joined Apple in 1983 when the Company had $600 million in revenues; by the time they left, Apple's revenues exceeded $8 billion.
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