Director of Data Ingestion and Platform

Who We Are

Measured provides the only media optimization platform powered by incrementality intelligence so consumer brands can validate, plan, test and optimize advertising spend to drive business outcomes. Our proven methodology combines each brand’s own performance data with results from years of continuous testing, across all channels and tactics, to reveal the true contribution of advertising spend to incremental sales. Leading consumer brands trust insights from Measured to make ongoing media investment decisions through automated solutions for incrementality-based attribution, in-market testing, benchmarking, and scenario planning. Measured is a 100% remote-first company with employees located all around the world.

Summary

As a Director of Data Ingestion and Platform at Measured, you are an experienced manager who can still be a hands-on technical lead. You will play a key role in designing and developing the company's next generation web-based Marketing Analytics applications. Your team will build will build and deliver user-centric products that are fault tolerant, efficient, and designed based on modern experiences. You will work closely with the product, design, front end engineers and data scientists to translate requirements into technical designs and implement it in close collaboration with other engineering teams. You are comfortable in rolling up sleeves to support customer escalations alongside with customer success and support teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire and coach team of engineers, providing mentorship with a focus on growth, as well as support through non-performance.

• Provide technical vision, solid foundation in software design, technical roadmap, and ability to weigh tradeoffs to balance short-term and long-term investments.

• Work in close partnership with product, design and other engineering teams to plan, build and deliver best-in-class experiences for our users.

• Be accountable for the timely delivery, overall technical excellence, quality of the software deliverables, enhancing existing architecture through optimization, or refactoring.

• Support customer escalations, work with customer success and support teams to ensure customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive engineering experience with 7+ years in managing engineering teams of size 7-10 team members in product / technology / startup organizations.

• Advanced degree in software engineering or computer science is a plus.

• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Previous working experience in building SaaS platform, real-time, scalable and high available production systems.

• Demonstrable experience in architecting software products/solutions; deep familiarity with modern technologies, design principles, and patterns.

• Strong familiarity with the SaaS Software development cycle and agile environment is preferred.

• Experience with Cloud platforms, preferably AWS. Understanding of cloud services like ECS, Lambda, EKS, SecretsManager, RDS or their equivalents.

• Experience with multiple back end frameworks.

• Understanding of microservices / serverless stacks with containerized deployments.