Engineering Manager, Ad Tech (100% Remote, Anywhere in USA)

GOBankingRates.com is a leading destination for personal finance news and information. 

Launched by Jeff Bartlett and Brett Rossmann in 2004, GOBankingRates (formerly ConsumerTrack) connects people with products and services that help them to lead a richer life.

We are a multi-media content platform covering all aspects of your personal finance journey. Our curated editorial content, videos and podcasts utilize expert insight to teach readers the six key principles of financial literacy: how to earn, save, invest, spend, borrow and protect money. We strive to give readers the confidence they need to feel empowered about making smart financial decisions today, tomorrow and into the future

At GOBankingRates.com, we're dedicated to delivering best-in-class content and experiences to millions of readers, empowering them with the financial knowledge to make informed decisions. As our digital presence grows, so does our need for robust, scalable ad server solutions to manage our advertising infrastructure efficiently. We are seeking a highly skilled Ad Tech Engineering Manager to manage and enhance our ad server capabilities, overseeing a talented squad of engineers and ensuring seamless integration across our ad platform.

If you're passionate about building scalable ad tech solutions and have the leadership skills to guide a team of engineers, this is an exciting opportunity to make a direct impact on our growth and the success of our advertising operations. As part of a fast-paced, innovative team, you'll gain valuable experience working across diverse ad tech projects and help shape the future of ad serving at GOBankingRates.com.

Our tech stack includes AWS, PHP, Python, Node.js, Javascript, MySQL.

The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $190,000 annually, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location, and has bonus opportunities.

WHAT YOU’LL TACKLE

• Ad Server Scalability: Enhance ad server features to improve scalability in ad trafficking, consolidating ad assets, organizing media placements, and developing effective ad management tools.
• Feature Development: Implement standard and custom templates, optimize ad management tools for bulk operations, targeting, scheduling, and ensure back-end tracking for ad performance metrics.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with internal stakeholders, including Sales, AdOps, Media Ops, and Data Science, to deliver solutions that meet their specific needs and operational goals.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

As the Ad Tech Engineering Manager, you’ll mentor, lead, and manage a growing team of engineers, setting goals and tracking progress while driving the design, development, and deployment of innovative ad solutions. You will be accountable for executing your team’s roadmap and ensuring the successful delivery of robust solutions that create powerful experiences for millions of readers seeking financial empowerment. Specific initiatives you will oversee include:

• Ad Asset & Media Placement Consolidation: Manage and streamline ad assets (offers and creatives) and organize media placements for better efficiency.
• Ad Management Tools: Enhance features and functionalities within the ad tool, improving ad management with bulk operations, advanced targeting, and scheduling capabilities.
• AdOps Dashboards: Develop basic dashboards to help AdOps teams track and manage their operations more effectively.
• Back-End Tracking: Ensure robust back-end tracking for ad performance and metrics.
• Potential Roadmap Projects:
• Ad CPM
• Ad Platform/Schema
• Trafficking Options
• Ad Event Logging
• Advanced Targeting Features

In addition to technical leadership, you will collaborate with digital product managers to create plans for prioritizing technical and resource challenges within your team. Quickly becoming an expert on product architecture, workflows, and business domains, you will balance the need for speed with the importance of correctness and quality in everything your team undertakes. You’ll instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Background

• 6-8+ years at ad agencies or in ad tech, with hands-on experience in ad workflows, campaign integrations, and trafficking, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in Python programming, with a strong understanding of Python libraries and frameworks relevant to data processing and web development (e.g., Flask, Django, Pandas).
• Demonstrated experience with ad server architectures, trafficking, ad asset management, and performance tracking.
• Strong skills in setting up and managing data tracking and analytics systems to measure ad performance.
• Experience in developing and managing API-based integrations across ad servers, data systems, and other related tools.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with teams such as AdOps, Sales, and Data Science to understand and deliver on operational and business requirements.

Skills

• Proven ability to prioritize projects and deliver results on time, even in fast-paced environments.
• A passion for technical excellence while balancing time-to-market considerations.
• Solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to overcome obstacles efficiently.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, promoting collaboration and shared success within teams.
• A commitment to Agile processes and methodologies, with the ability to manage roadmaps, sprints, and deployments.
• A passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and mentoring other engineering community members, occasionally coding or evaluating code.
• History of instilling a culture of continuous improvement in a team’s code, architecture, and processes.

Benefits

• 100% Remote 
• Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
• Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
• Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
• Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
• Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
• Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
• 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary

We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.