Liftoff

Technical Manager - Creative Serving

Liftoff$176K — $255K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing teams.
  • Proven ability in building and scaling engineering systems.
  • Strong technical judgment to analyze complex code and provide insightful feedback.
  • Solid engineering and coding skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration capabilities.
  • Familiarity with Go, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus.
  • Experience in the ad tech sector is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate the long-term strategy and vision for creative serving.
  • Translate business objectives into actionable team goals.
  • Collaborate with ML and product stakeholders to enhance infrastructure quality.
  • Ensure a balance between immediate improvements and long-term development.
  • Set and promote engineering culture through best practices and accountability.
  • Provide technical feedback on significant projects when necessary.
  • Mentor and develop future engineers and leaders.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote work eligibility in multiple states.
  • Opportunities for quarterly in-person gatherings and team-building events.
  • Equity options included in compensation package.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits.
  • Supportive and innovative work environment focusing on employee growth.
Full Job Description
About the Creative Serving team
The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in serving every ad across Liftoff's product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. Creative Serving systems are deep, strategic integrations with our partner exchanges, and require impeccable uptime to drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal Vungle Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities.

As a Technical Manager on the Creative Serving team, you will:
  • Define, shape, and clearly communicate our long-term creative serving strategy, vision, and roadmap.
  • Translate business goals into team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders.
  • Work closely with ML and product stakeholders at Liftoff, ensuring our creative serving infrastructure meets their needs with a consistently high quality bar.
  • Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring a steady stream of improvements as your team builds for the long term.
  • Set the bar for our engineering culture, encouraging the development of best practices, holding individuals accountable for slippage, and improving processes.
  • Provide deep technical feedback on key projects as necessary.
  • Grow the next generation of engineers and leaders.

Requirements:
  • 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering; 2+ managing engineers.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling engineering systems, including design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
  • Excellent technical judgment; able to dive deep, review designs, navigate complex code bases, and give substantive feedback.
  • Solid engineering and coding skills.
  • Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience with Go and HTML/CSS/JS is a plus.
  • Experience with ad tech is a solid plus.

Location:

This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Travel Expectations:

We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
  • SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, Seattle, NYC:: $205,000 - $255,000
  • Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $188,000 - $234,000
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $176,000 - $219,000


Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We're shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem-join us and help accelerate what's next.

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.

About Liftoff

Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform that uses post-install user data to run true CPA-optimized mobile app install campaigns. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Liftoff's technology helps app marketers target and convert users who are most likely to engage with their apps, thereby driving engagement and revenue growth. The company has won several awards for its innovative technology and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine.
Learn more about Liftoff
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
+50%
Revenue
$100 million

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