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Sr. Manager – Ad Engineering Lead

Sr. Manager – Ad Engineering Lead

CompanyYahoo
LocationUnited States
Salary$143625 – $299375
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 7+ years experience in ad engineering, with a minimum of 3 years managing an engineering team at a digital publisher or creative agency.
  • Expertise in digital display advertising, including standard IAB units, proprietary ad formats, native and video.
  • Deep understanding of tools, apps and systems including Javascript, React, GraphQL, Webpack, Node, NextJS, and CI/CD workflows.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership on high impact, high visibility, high revenue projects.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment – well organized, excellent attention to detail, meet tasks on short deadlines, and know how to prioritize towards revenue.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small, high performing team that focuses on frontend engineering and interactive development for ad and content experiences for advertisers.
  • Ability to oversee and influence across the full stack of solutions.
  • Collaborate with our creative tooling partner to optimize ad creation workflows, enhance tracking, introduce responsive ads, and integrate additional ad components.
  • Create, maintain, and enhance interactive ad components such as galleries, countdown timers, mini-games, scratch-off effects, and other high-impact ad features.
  • Maintain and enhance the ACE CLI framework, which supports all Yahoo Creative-produced ads globally, ensuring consistent performance and scalability.
  • Build, maintain, and enhance key platforms such as Ad Showcase, Ad Specs, and supporting tools that power Yahoo Creative’s ad solutions.
  • Build and maintain ad templates that serve as boilerplates for various ad sizes and execution types, transitioning towards Smartform development for internal and external users.
  • Concept and develop new ad formats in collaboration with Yahoo Publishers, Monetization, and Sales teams.
  • Interface with clients to resolve technical issues and develop solutions for complex ad creative concepts that require custom builds and execution.
  • Create, maintain and update process documentation, best practices, and FAQs for use by cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.