Synup is looking for a Director of Engineering to join our rapidly growing product organisation

In this role, you’ll lead a strong engineering team with embedded product managers contributing to forward research and product development. You will own product strategy and delivery, engineering, metrics and data, customer experience. You will be expected to establish a vision and key priorities for the program, make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Defining and driving overall product strategies and roadmaps by working backward from the customer
• Owning the long-term technology and product research and development roadmap
• Delivering engineering infrastructure and product launches of significant complexity that have broad cross-organizational, customer impact
• Influence senior leaders – proactively communicate program vision, customer impact, progress and plans
• Provide leadership for a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, managers
• Consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. You will assess risk, drive clarity, and create the correct sense of urgency for delivery
• Enabling your managers and technical contributors to execute with high independence through scalable audit mechanisms. For yourself, you will maintain the technical understanding and customer experience fidelity to actively contribute to engineering and product decision making
• Hire, manage and develop senior product and technical leaders in the organization
• You will have a broad scope. The role is ideal for an outstanding engineering and product leader with vision and passion for developing highly scalable customer-facing products and working backward from the customer experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 14+ years of work experience
• Has taken software products from inception to customer delivery
• 6+ years Product/Program/Engineering Management experience in digital advertising, search, e-Commerce or web technology-related industry - Preferred From Product companies
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• A demonstrated track record of leading a medium to large-scale ‘program’, demonstrating multi-functional skills to make it successful
• Analytical and able to create sound business arguments backed up by data
• Ability to lead and influence across different organizations and align diverse teams to a common goal
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities: must effectively communicate with technical and non-technical people
• Demonstrated ability for being detail-oriented, self-motivated and driving follow-through
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary
• Experience in big data systems, distributed systems, high scale databases, and fast look-up services
• Experience with data science products and their research and development, particularly in the advertising

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital advertising and strong familiarity with advertising technology
• MBA or MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Experience in Data Science, Machine Learning and Optimization