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Director of Technology, Ad Tech

Role overview

Summary

The role is for a Director of Technology at Adprime Media, responsible for leading engineering execution across the advertising technology platform. You will work closely with the CTPO to shape technical strategy and ensure the delivery of high-quality software through a distributed engineering team.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience building or operating advertising technology systems: bidders, exchanges or SSPs, ad servers, or real-time auction infrastructure.
  • Working knowledge of the programmatic ecosystem: OpenRTB, supply chain standards (ads.txt, sellers.json, schain), identity, and measurement.
  • Strong data engineering fluency: high-volume pipelines, data warehousing, and analytics infrastructure; AWS experience.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the CTPO on technology strategy and translate strategic direction into concrete architecture proposals and implementation plans
  • Review solution designs and architecture proposals from the engineering team; approve, reject with a clear alternative, or refine
  • Own delivery end to end: sprint planning, ticket definition, scope control, and accountability for committed timelines
  • Manage a distributed engineering team of nine engineers across backend, full stack, data, QA, and ML through an on-the-ground engineering lead

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Distributed Team Management
  • Communication
  • Leadership

About the company

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IBT Media

  • News & Publishing
  • SME
  • 201–500
Under the umbrella of IBT Media, IBTimes launched in 2005 to connect the dots around the world to fuel your passion for news and ability to make informed decisions. IBTimes has a vision to document the unfolding story of the global economy in ways radically different from other publishers at the time. While there were some publishers that covered business in various geographies, it was often done through the perspective of their home countries, missing nuance and important detail to make the coverage locally relevant. With constant innovation, we are ensuring that whether by website, app, newsletter or feed, you have access to global information that moves your world. Recognizing the incomplete narrative, IBT quickly launched foreign editions, not only to report news back to New York, but to become an indispensable tool to serve local economies and businesses as well. Now, under new management, IBT Media is upholding that philosophy and focused on engaging a new generation of readers with content that speaks to their interests, analysis that serve their businesses, and insight to make sense of a globally connected world.

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Job description

Newsweek is the global media organization that has earned audience time and trust for more than 90 years. Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia. 

Director of Technology, Ad Tech

Location: Argentina
Reports to: Chief Technology & Product Officer 

About Adprime 

Adprime Media is a vertically integrated advertising technology company headquartered in New York. Our platform spans a demand-side platform, a programmatic ad exchange, audience, data, and ad products, and campaign intelligence. We work with agencies, brands, and publishers across performance and healthcare verticals, and we are building an AI-first engineering and operations culture. 

The Role 

Adprime is hiring a Director of Technology to lead engineering execution across our platform. The Director of Technology will work directly with the CTPO to shape technical strategy, then own turning that strategy into delivered software through our distributed engineering team. 

This is not a process management role. The ideal candidate will need the technical depth to evaluate architecture proposals on their merits, reject weak designs with a better alternative in hand, and produce solution designs yourself when the situation calls for it. Their leverage comes from judgment: the team produces options, you make sure the right one ships. 

What The Director of Technology Will Do:

  • Partner with the CTPO on technology strategy and translate strategic direction into concrete architecture proposals and implementation plans 
  • Review solution designs and architecture proposals from the engineering team; approve, reject with a clear alternative, or refine 
  • Own delivery end to end: sprint planning, ticket definition, scope control, and accountability for committed timelines 
  • Manage a distributed engineering team of nine engineers across backend, full stack, data, QA, and ML through an on-the-ground engineering lead 
  • Establish measurable progress reporting so leadership always knows what is shipping, what is at risk, and why 
  • Raise the engineering bar: solution design quality, code review discipline, documentation, and testing standards 
  • Work with product management to turn requirements into scoped, sequenced engineering work 
  • Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team 

Requirements: 

  • 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams 
  • Hands-on experience building or operating advertising technology systems: bidders, exchanges or SSPs, ad servers, or real-time auction infrastructure 
  • Working knowledge of the programmatic ecosystem: OpenRTB, supply chain standards (ads.txt, sellers.json, schain), identity, and measurement 
  • Strong data engineering fluency: high-volume pipelines, data warehousing, and analytics infrastructure; AWS experience  
  • A track record of managing distributed or offshore teams and getting reliable output across timezones 
  • The ability to switch between strategic discussion with executive leadership and detailed technical review with engineers
  • Excellent written and spoken English

What Success Looks Like 

  • Within six months, the CTPO is out of the day-to-day engineering loop. Architecture decisions are made quickly and well, sprints ship what they commit to, and delivery timelines are trusted by the rest of the company. 

Newsweek is an equal opportunity employer. We seek employees of diverse backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace.

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