Director - Engineering, Video Ads - OpenX - Pasadena

Job description
As a senior member of the Video Ads team, you will be responsible for managing and executing critical Video Ads projects across multi-disciplinary teams. Working in a highly collaborative environment, you will lead innovation and be a self-starter within Engineering and Product teams to design, prototype, develop and deploy features and products in the rapidly growing Video Advertising space.
You will develop deep domain expertise in digital advertising and generate key insights that influence business decisions and technological solutions. In addition, you have a responsibility to recruit, manage, motivate and retain the best talent in a performance-driven organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Leadership and Ownership through a full development cycle from product inception, research, definition, prototyping to product development and release in production.
Measurably impact company performance by delivering high quality scalable video advertising products
Lead a team that will architect and build scalable, low latency, always on platforms that can handle billions of transactions per day.
Attract, hire, manage, and mentor engineering talent. Be a leader to a dynamic team, provide product context and business opportunity for the products to keep teams motivated and engaged.
Lead group meetings that offer the team visibility and opportunities. Proactively identify training and conference participation opportunities to increase team and personal skills.
Mentor and Develop Managers and Individual Contributors to build on key engineering qualities of technical excellence, ownership, accountability and adaptability.
Research and determine where MVP and “skunkworks” projects can be done to move an idea forward.
Collaborate with other component teams within engineering and other functions in the company like Business, Product, Finance and Exec Teams. Represent video team is executive review meetings and communicate status of the products.
Assist Launch Management Team in go-to market strategy and prioritize work and fixes in response to production support needs. Assist and be responsive to Sales and Support Engineering in dealing and anticipating customer issues.
Capable of breaking down project into manageable components and provide estimates and track the work with Project Management counterpart.
Skilled at recruiting, building a diverse team and ability to identify talent. Capable of sourcing with internal and external recruiters.

Desired Skills and Experience
REQUIREMENTS:

BS in Computer science or related field. Masters is preferred. 15+ years of experience with at least 6 years of hands on development experience.
Lead a team of 20+ engineers and shipped multiple complex, scalable, high priority / visibility products.
Designed and Developed and develop complex distributed systems. Solid Computer Science fundamentals and understands space / time complexity. Capable of discussing design and algorithms with architects and engineers.
Knowledge/exposure to big data processing and storage is a plus
Experience in Video Ad Technology platforms is a plus.
Hands-on experience working with Java, Video Advertising Development is highly preferred.

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