VP Programmatic

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience with significant senior technical leadership experience in sell-side adtech, such as Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Engineering, or Head of Programmatic Engineering within a wrapper vendor, Supply-Side Platform (SSP), exchange, or Prebid ecosystem.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Prebid on both the client and server side, including the ability to understand live auction traces and the technical implications of auction configuration.
• Strong knowledge of OpenRTB 2.6 and the broader programmatic advertising ecosystem.
• Practical experience with Google Ad Manager in the context of header bidding, including line items, price granularity, and Open Bidding interactions.
• Strong understanding of modern sell-side programmatic topics, including client-side versus server-side trade-offs, TCF/GPP enforcement, Digital Services Act transparency, curation, Supply Path Optimization (SPO), Private Marketplaces (PMP), Programmatic Guaranteed (PG), dynamic floors, traffic shaping, and Demand-Side Platform (DSP) query-per-second limitations.
• Strong knowledge of publisher-side performance and Core Web Vitals, including Interaction to Next Paint (INP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), deferred auction initialization, code chunking, and third-party script isolation.
• Ability to read, review, and make architectural decisions across a polyglot technology environment including Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, PHP, and Python running on Kubernetes.
• Daily experience with AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools such as Claude Code or equivalent, together with the ability to distinguish where artificial intelligence accelerates development from where human technical judgment remains essential.
• Player-coach mindset, with enthusiasm for working closely with a compact engineering organization and personally engaging with complex technical problems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a data-driven approach to technical and commercial decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to engineering, product, commercial, and external stakeholders.
• Fluent English.
• French is considered a plus.
• Experience with large-scale Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) analytics and machine learning deployed within latency-sensitive bid paths is advantageous.
• A visible track record within Prebid open-source projects or IAB working groups is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of publisher-side privacy, consent-string quality, and browser-specific signal loss, particularly across Safari and Firefox, is advantageous.
• Experience with video advertising technologies such as VAST, Connected TV (CTV), or audio monetization is a plus.
• Commercial awareness, ownership, pragmatism, adaptability, and a strong focus on measurable results.

Benefits

• Senior leadership position with end-to-end ownership of a critical programmatic engineering domain.
• High level of autonomy and decision-making authority over architecture, roadmap, engineering priorities, and technical direction.
• Opportunity to work with large-scale programmatic infrastructure processing billions of bidding, bid-request, and analytics events.
• Exposure to a sophisticated in-house advertising technology ecosystem spanning header bidding, Supply-Side Platform technology, video, consent management, and analytics.
• Mostly remote working structure, with in-person presence for key meetings and onboarding activities.
• International environment with colleagues and teams across multiple countries.
• Close-knit, collaborative culture focused on ownership, innovation, transparency, and measurable impact.
• Professional development opportunities, including training, career check-ins, performance feedback, and potential internal mobility.
• Comprehensive health and pension benefits.
• Opportunities to attend industry conferences and participate in relevant advertising technology working groups and events.
• Opportunity to work in an AI-native engineering environment and help shape how artificial intelligence is integrated into modern software development.
• Direct exposure to senior strategic decision-making and the opportunity to influence the future direction of programmatic advertising technology.

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