Sr. Director, Engineering (Ads)

Position Summary

Sr. Director, Engineering (Ads):
Location: Mountain View, CA

The Engineering Leaders at Samsung Ads are experts in their product and architecture. They consistently strive for excellence, focus on critical issues, and solve complex problems. They collaborate closely with technical architects and are dedicated to innovation and turning visions into reality. They maintain strong relationships with product managers and ensure that their teams understand the importance of their work. Additionally, they coordinate across multiple sites worldwide and continuously work to improve communication and productivity. If this sounds like you, please continue reading!

POSITION SUMMARY

In recent years, Samsung has focused on creating services across its devices to complement its leading hardware business while utilizing its strong global distribution network. These services and a vast partner network and proprietary data create significant opportunities for advertising-based monetization. After operating for six years, Samsung Ads has become a highly successful and rapidly growing business. Its ongoing success relies on the products, technologies, and tools the Global Ads & Data Product & Engineering team developed. With a substantial presence in four countries, this fast-paced and complex organization encompasses hundreds of employees working across various product and strategic domains.

Our team, Ad Experience, is dedicated to optimizing the user experience when displaying advertisements on Samsung TVs. We drive innovation through the development of diverse ad formats and features, strategically balancing exceptional user experience with maximized business outcomes. We actively leverage artificial intelligence to streamline workflows, enhance optimization efforts, and build cutting-edge tools that open new business streams.

As the leader for our Ad Experience, you will oversee multiple teams of software developers across multiple sites responsible for critical products for Samsung Ads. Your role will involve building the world class ads product to optimize ad experience, collaborating with other leads in the other sites, and partnering with senior product and engineering leadership to ensure an effective global product development process.

The ideal candidate possesses deep, hands-on knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem, a proven track record of setting and maintaining an extremely high-performance bar, and experience in the full cycle of talent acquisition from recruiting top-tier talent to mentoring and upleveling existing teams. This leader must thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced setting and demonstrate a history of implementing innovative solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

This position will report directly to the US Site Lead and will be based in the Mountain View, CA office, with both domestic and international travel.

Role and Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Drive the execution of the Product Solutions Roadmap with 95+% on time product release.
• Directly support the Ad Experience engineering team with 15 engineers in the US.
• Supports the Ad Experience engineering team with 13 engineers in Warsaw, Poland
• Cultivate a world-class engineering culture and best practices.
• Evolve our technology to meet the business's needs and industry standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to facilitate high-impact product delivery.
• Interact effectively with architects, site reliability engineers (SREs), and adjacent engineering and R&D teams to build and sustain high-quality and impactful platforms and products.
• Engage actively with partnering teams, including in Korea, in a highly complex environment to remove obstacles and pave the way toward successful outcomes.

NECESSARY SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES:

• Proven track record in successfully building and launching digital ad platforms and products.
• Demonstrated experience in leading large-scale engineering teams with a structured and deliberate mindset.
• Fast pacing and aggressively driving for outcome.
• 14+ years of experience in (and passion for) hiring, leading, and developing engineering teams within the Ads space or closely related sectors, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality products at scale.
• Computer Science/Engineering BS/MS/PhD or equivalent experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and quality; striving for continuous improvements.
• Ability to work strategically and tactically (hands-on) as needed, with relative fluidity, little direction, and ambiguity.
• General interest and awareness of industry trends and developments in related sectors.
• Embracing changes and passionate about driving innovation
• Deep advertising technology domain expertise such as SSP/DSP platforms, real-time bidding, ads measurement is required.

Skills and Qualifications

CULTURE FIT:

• Operational Excellence
  • Systematic problem solving
  • Structured & considered organizational design
  • Perpetual & continuous improvement
  • Seamless collaboration
• Individual Scale
  • Capacity to extend influence wide and deep at the same time
  • Intuitive ability to make tech choices while balancing short and long-term considerations
• Team Leadership
  • Set high standards leading by example
  • Transparent and accountable
  • Humble yet confident
  • Ambitious yet compassionate

CORE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• EXCELLENCE
  Drives action with humility, EQ, and an unwavering passion for performance and results
• CHANGE
  Embodies and encourages intelligent creativity
• CO PROSPERITY
  Navigates highly matrixed and complex organizations successfully as part of a team
• PEOPLE
  Builds and develops best-in-class teams built on trust, accountability and mutual respect and the organization
• INTEGRITY
  Inspires trust, confidence, and consensus across the organization by fostering relationships

Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Mountain View, CA is expected to be between $300,000 ~ $330,000 base. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.

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