Engineering Manager - Ads

The role

You will lead the Ads ML team within the Growth, Revenue and Commerce group. You will own the ML roadmap for ad delivery and manage a team of four backend and ML engineers.

What you will do

• Own the ML roadmap for ad delivery.
• Take personalised ad serving from experiment to production across markets.
• Own the production ML stack behind ad decisions.
• Build a rigorous experimentation practice for ML.
• Own the backend ad delivery services for iOS, Android and web.
• Partner with client engineers, data analysts and product on the roadmap.
• Grow the team's ML depth through hiring, mentorship and career development.
• Manage performance effectively.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• 5+ years as a backend software developer.
• Hands-on experience building and running ML systems in production.
• Solid grasp of applied ML for decision-making.
• Strong experiment design skills.
• Experience managing engineers, including coaching, feedback and performance development.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in ad tech, ad serving or large-scale experimentation on a large consumer platform.
• Contextual or multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning or uplift modelling in production.
• ML platform tooling: feature stores, model registries and workflow
• User LTV, churn or subscription-propensity modelling.
• Ad standards and integrations: VAST, programmatic demand (SSPs and DSPs), frequency capping.
• Audio or video advertising.
• Scala or another JVM language, and Python for ML work.

Benefits

• Creativity and Wellness benefit (gym membership, photography course or book)
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy with up to 35 days of PTO annually
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

About the company

SoundCloud is the world’s largest open audio platform. It is a multinational company with offices in the US, Germany, and the UK.