Vice President of Engineering, Yieldmo
Search
$225-290k
+ Employee stock option program
Programmatic advertising exchange
Be an early applicant
Programmatic advertising exchange
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-290k
+ Employee stock option program
101-200 employees
Company mission
To elevate the digital advertising experience for consumers, advertisers, and publishers.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a proven track record designing and building search solutions from the ground up, and is equally comfortable leading full-stack engineering teams across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and quality
- 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and leading engineering teams
- Experience designing and building general-purpose search or retrieval systems at scale
- Strong background in AI and modern search methodologies (LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, ranking/relevance systems, reinforcement learning, etc.)
- Deep understanding of search system architecture (indexing, query processing, ranking) and how to evaluate and improve relevance in production
- Proven ability to lead and grow teams while remaining technically credible and able to dive deep when needed
- Exposure to leading AI/search organizations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI, Google DeepMind, etc.) is a plus
- Experience with Python, SQL, Docker, microservices, and LLM function/tool calling
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior engineering leader to take full ownership of Yieldmo’s AI-powered search initiative end to end—from early architecture and prototyping through production launch and scale
- This is a rare opportunity to have an outsized impact on the industry by shaping a first-of-its-kind search product across major publishers
- Own the end-to-end strategy and delivery of Yieldmo’s AI-driven search engine, launching first with a major publisher partner and scaling into a general-purpose solution across multiple publishers
- Set the technical vision, architecture, and operating model for the Search platform—translating ambiguous goals into a clear roadmap, milestones, and measurable outcomes
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering organization across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and quality, with strong execution cadence and accountability
- Partner deeply with Product, Design, and stakeholders to align priorities, drive tradeoffs, and deliver impactful retrieval, ranking, and recommendation capabilities
- Drive measurable improvements in search quality, relevance, latency, reliability, and cost—establishing standards for observability, evaluation, testing, and operational readiness
- Build a culture of innovation and velocity, raising the bar for quality and execution while enabling teams to iterate quickly and ship consistently
- Hire and grow a high-performing team, including org design, leveling, and coaching—ensuring the right structure and talent are in place to scale delivery
Application process
- Select candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We will discuss the Hiring Process details at that time. The hiring process typically includes, but is not limited to:
- A 30 minute video interview with the Hiring Manager
- Candidates will be invited to join a remote on-site interview round, consisting of video interviews with various team members and leadership
- Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer
Our take
Yieldmo is an advertising technology company that has carved out a niche in the industry by operating a smarter version of an exchange. By utilizing cutting-edge machine learning and optimization techniques, the company curates ad inventory in real time, enabling advertisers to access the highest-performing options.
Yieldmo's system combines attention signals such as gestures, interest, and visibility, with environmental signals like situational and timing factors. From this data it can predict user engagement, and match buyers to the sellers that will maximise outcomes such as click-through and video completion rates - and hence conversion.
in 2023, Yieldmo announced its patented Smart Curation technology. This, along with its 22 previous patents, further establishes its position as an industry leader. This new product sets the company apart by curating and scoring impressions based on granular attributes, all without relying on cookies or unique user-lever identifiers, which puts it in a great position as third-party cookies begin to be phased out.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2020
$2m
SERIES C
Aug 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $43m
Company benefits
- Ongoing lectures and seminars, plus an annual educational stipend for every employee
- Flexible vacation policy & Summer Fridays
- Dog-friendly offices
- Fully remote workplace
- Employer contribution to Health Benefit premiums
- 401k match
- 1 Mental Escape (ME) day each quarter
- Allowance to help you upgrade your home office
Company HQ
Hudson, Nashua, NH
Leadership
Michael Yavonditte
(CEO)Previously served as the CEO of Quigo from "pre-revenue" until the sale of the company to AOL in 2007.
Rick Eaton
(CFO)Previously served as the CFO at Juno Online Services, Quigo, and Hashable.
Teddy Jawde
(CSO)Previously worked in various Product roles at Quigo, Yahoo!, and HotJobs. Also served as the Vice President of Product Management at Hashable.
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