Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Performance Recommendation

Smartly

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Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
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32 days ago
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Smartly (formerly Smartly.io) is a leading AI-powered advertising technology company that unifies creative production, media buying, and campaign intelligence into a single, automated platform

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Performance Recommendation

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will join the Ad Performance Recommendation team within the AI Platform organization to lead a multidisciplinary group of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers. You will be responsible for developing an innovative AI-powered system that utilizes marketing ad tech data and various sources to identify performance signals and generate actionable recommendations for digital advertisers. Your daily work involves providing technical direction, defining strategy for machine learning applications, and ensuring compliance with privacy and ethical standards. You will build and optimize AdTech-specific ML models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, and SQL. The role focuses on solving complex problems in the advertising technology space by creating predictive and simulation techniques to improve performance, efficiency, and scalability across the company’s media, creative, and intelligence suite of products.

What does a Engineering Manager earn?

Median $267050 from 138 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers for the Ad Performance Recommendation team.
  • Define the vision and strategy for machine learning and data science applications across the product suite.
  • Develop and optimize AdTech-specific ML models to improve performance, efficiency, and scalability.
  • Ensure all machine learning applications comply with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards.
  • Mentor and coach team members through 1:1s, code reviews, and career development plans.
  • Partner with leadership to shape the long-term AI strategy and architecture for the organization.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure AI features deliver measurable business impact and customer value.
  • Partner with recruiting to source and hire top talent to scale the engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience building services and products.
  • 5+ years of experience applying machine learning to real-life problems.
  • 3+ years of experience leading teams.
  • Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, and SQL.
  • Proven experience delivering scalable ML systems in production.
  • Ability to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers.
  • M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field such as Mathematics, CS, AI, or Physics.
  • Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.

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