Senior Director of Engineering, Zeta Global
AI Acquisition Solutions
$300-400k
+ Equity
The AI marketing cloud
Job no longer available
The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$300-400k
+ 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
- This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, has a passion for building AI-first applications, and wants to shape the future of media intelligence
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Proven success building and delivering data-driven or AI-powered applications at scale
- Demonstrated passion and experience using AI tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code generation, intelligent QA, and dev automation tools) to improve development velocity, code quality, and team productivity
- Experience working in or adjacent to ad tech, marketing tech, or data platforms is strongly preferred
- Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, data modeling, and event-driven architectures
- Hands-on technical depth in backend systems, APIs, AI/ML pipelines, or full-stack development
- Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive, fast-moving, and unafraid to operate outside job boundaries to get things done. Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, set clear goals, and inspire teams to execute
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on, entrepreneurial VP of Engineering to lead the development of next-generation AI-powered applications
- This leader will thrive on building and owning a full stack solution and play a pivotal role in platforming agencies and acquisition buyers, combining advanced modeling, intelligent automation, and real-time data pipelines to transform how marketing decisions are made and optimized
- You will work across the stack - building UI experiences, defining new APIs, integrating AI agents, refining GenUI components, and extending platform capabilities like new MCP endpoints
- You’ll lead engineering efforts across a portfolio of solutions, including:
- AI-powered, forecasted marketing intelligence tools that guide strategic decision-making
- Robust connections to the programmatic ecosystem to enable precise, audience-based activation and measurement
- Connected tools/workflows that plan, bid, and optimize media plans against digital KPIs and real-world outcomes
- Comprehensive attribution and measurement capabilities across the entire marketing landscape
- Intelligent apps that use modeling pipelines and proprietary Data Cloud insights to drive new customer acquisition at scale
- Intuitive workflows and cross-app connections that improve the user journey, ensuring users can move effortlessly between discovery, planning, activation, and measurement
- Lead and scale a team of 8-12 engineers to deliver high-quality, production-grade applications
- Be a hands-on contributor - from architecture to code reviews, setting technical direction and building prototypes when needed
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and GTM teams to align roadmap with strategic business outcomes
- Integrate AI/ML models into applications, working closely with platform and modeling teams to operationalize intelligence
- Define and implement best practices in performance, observability, and cost-efficient design
- Foster a culture of innovation, velocity, and ownership within your team
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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