VP, Engineering at iSpot

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Immigration / Work Authorization Notice:</strong></span><strong data-stringify-type="bold"> </strong></strong>Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.</p> <p>iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.</p></div><h2><strong>What You’ll Be Part Of:</strong></h2> <p>At iSpot, we are transforming how brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms measure advertising outcomes across linear, streaming, and digital ecosystems. Engineering is the engine behind that transformation — the systems that ingest, resolve, and measure billions of ad exposures every day.</p> <p>As Vice President of Engineering, you will own the execution, technical direction, and organizational health of engineering across iSpot's Creative, Audience, and Outcomes (CAO) product portfolio. Your mission is to build an engineering organization that ships predictably, operates reliably at scale, and turns product strategy into shipped, measurable customer value.</p> <p>This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that sits at the intersection of engineering, product, data science, and operations. You will partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Platform, and Go-to-Market teams to set roadmaps, resolve dependencies, and deliver on commitments across a complex, data-intensive measurement platform.</p> <p>This is a hands-on leadership role. While you will build and lead multiple engineering teams through managers and senior individual contributors, we expect our leaders to review architectures, dig into incidents, read code, evaluate emerging technologies, and work directly with teams to unblock delivery.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end engineering execution for the Creative, Audience, and Outcomes product lines — delivery, quality, reliability, and cost.</li> <li>Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering organization, including hiring, leveling, performance management, and succession planning for managers and senior engineers.</li> <li>Partner with Product Management to translate strategy into achievable roadmaps, realistic commitments, and clear delivery milestones.</li> <li>Set technical direction and architectural standards for scalable, secure, and maintainable systems across data pipelines, services, and customer-facing applications.</li> <li>Drive operational excellence: uptime, incident response, on-call health, observability, data quality, and continuous reduction of technical debt.</li> <li>Establish and improve the engineering operating model — planning cadence, SDLC practices, code review standards, testing strategy, and release management.</li> <li>Champion AI-assisted engineering practices to raise developer throughput and quality across the organization.</li> <li>Partner with Data Science to productionize methodology, models, and measurement logic at scale.</li> <li>Manage engineering budget, vendor relationships, cloud spend, and capacity planning against business priorities.</li> <li>Ensure security, privacy, data governance, and compliance requirements are embedded in how the organization builds and operates.</li> <li>Define and report the metrics that matter — delivery predictability, defect and incident rates, platform performance, unit economics, and team engagement.</li> <li>Represent engineering with executives, customers, and partners, communicating trade-offs and progress with clarity and credibility.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Qualifications and Education Requirements:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.</li> <li>15+ years of technology experience, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations through managers.</li> <li>Proven track record of shipping and operating large-scale, data-intensive SaaS products in production.</li> <li>Depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern data platforms and pipelines.</li> <li>Experience leading cross-functional delivery spanning engineering, product management, and data science.</li> <li>Strong technical depth with the ability and willingness to remain hands-on when necessary.</li> <li>Demonstrated success building engineering culture, raising the talent bar, and retaining strong teams.</li> <li>Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business outcomes.</li> <li>Demonstrated success operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments and driving organizational change.</li> <li>Strong understanding of enterprise security, privacy, and data governance.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Preferred Skills:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience within advertising technology, media measurement, marketing technology, or consumer insights platforms.</li> <li>Experience with large-scale data processing and analytics platforms (streaming ingestion, warehousing, identity resolution).</li> <li>Experience integrating AI and agentic capabilities into both products and the software development lifecycle.</li> <li>Familiarity with modern DevOps, SRE, and MLOps practices in cloud-native environments.</li> <li>Experience leading platform migrations, replatforming efforts, or post-acquisition technical integration.</li> <li>MS or advanced technical degree preferred.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Additional Notes:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>This role is focused on the execution engine behind iSpot's product portfolio — the people, systems, and practices that turn strategy into shipped, reliable, and measurable capabilities.</li> <li>Success in this role will be measured by delivery predictability, platform reliability and scale, engineering quality, and the strength and retention of the organization.</li> <li>We are looking for a builder and operator who combines organizational leadership with genuine technical depth and a bias for execution. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable presenting a delivery plan to executives and reviewing an architecture with engineers.<br><br></li> </ul> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class="s17"> <div> <p class="s18"><span class="s6">What You’ll Be Part Of:</span></p> <p class="s18"><span class="s11">At iSpot, we are transforming how brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms measure advertising outcomes across linear, streaming, and digital ecosystems. Artificial Intelligence is a critical part of our product strategy and future growth.</span></p> <p class="s18"><span class="s11">As Vice President of AI, you will lead the development and execution of AI-powered capabilities across<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">iSpot’s</span><span class="s11"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>customer-facing product portfolio, with responsibility spanning our Creative, Audience, and Outcomes (CAO) product lines. Your mission is to identify, build, and scale innovative AI solutions that create measurable business value, accelerate product differentiation, and unlock new revenue opportunities.</span></p> <p class="s18"><span class="s11">This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that sits at the intersection of technology, product, data science, and commercial strategy. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Data Science, and Go-to-Market teams to bring AI-driven experiences to market—from intelligent creative analysis and audience insights to next-generation outcome measurement, automation, and agentic workflows.</span></p> <p class="s18"><span class="s11">This is a hands-on leadership role. While you will build and lead a high-performing AI organization, we expect our leaders to actively prototype, experiment, review<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">architectures</span><span class="s11">, evaluate emerging technologies, and work directly with teams to turn ideas into customer value.</span></p> <p class="s18"><span class="s6">Responsibilities:</span></p> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Define and execute<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">iSpot’s</span><span class="s11">&nbsp; AI</span><span class="s11"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>product strategy across the Creative, Audience, and Outcomes (CAO) product portfolio.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Identify high-value opportunities to apply generative AI, agentic systems, machine learning, and advanced analytics to deliver differentiated customer experiences and measurable business outcomes.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Lead the incubation, prototyping, and commercialization of AI-powered products and features across creative intelligence, audience measurement, and outcome attribution solutions.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to embed AI capabilities into existing products and future roadmaps.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Establish technical direction and architectural patterns for scalable, secure, and responsible AI systems.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Build and lead a high-performing team of AI engineers, scientists, and product specialists focused on customer-facing innovation.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Drive experimentation frameworks that enable rapid validation of new AI concepts while maintaining strong execution discipline.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Collaborate directly with customers, partners, and commercial teams to understand market needs and translate them into differentiated AI capabilities.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Evaluate emerging AI technologies, vendors, and platforms to accelerate time-to-market and maximize business impact.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Ensure responsible AI practices, governance, security, privacy, and compliance considerations are embedded into all customer-facing solutions.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Define success metrics and business outcomes for AI initiatives, including customer adoption, revenue impact, operational efficiency, and product differentiation.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Represent iSpot externally as a thought leader on AI innovation within advertising, media measurement, audience intelligence, and marketing technology.</span></div> <p class="s18"><span class="s6">Qualifications and Education Requirements:</span></p> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science</span><span class="s11">, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">15+ years of technology leadership experience, including significant experience building AI, machine learning, or data-driven products.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Proven track record of delivering customer-facing AI products that have created measurable business impact.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Deep understanding of modern AI technologies, including large language models, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, machine learning platforms, and generative AI applications.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Experience leading cross-functional organizations spanning engineering, product management, and data science.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Strong technical depth with the ability and willingness to remain hands-on when necessary.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Demonstrated success operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments and driving organizational change.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, data governance, privacy, and enterprise security.</span></div> <p class="s18"><span class="s6">Preferred Skills:</span></p> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Experience within advertising technology, media measurement, marketing technology, or consumer insights platforms.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Experience building and deploying agentic AI systems and autonomous workflows in production environments.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Familiarity with modern<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">MLOps</span><span class="s11"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>practices and cloud-native AI platforms.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Track record of creating new products or revenue streams through AI-enabled capabilities.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Experience working directly with enterprise customers to shape product strategy and innovation priorities.</span></div> <div class="s20"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">MS or advanced technical degree preferred.</span></div> <p class="s18"><span class="s6">Additional Notes:</span></p> <div class="s21"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">This role is focused on accelerating<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">iSpot’s</span><span class="s11"><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>customer-facing AI innovation agenda and delivering differentiated capabilities across our Creative, Audience, and Outcomes product portfolio.</span></div> <div class="s21"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">Success in this role will be measured by the ability to translate emerging AI technologies into meaningful customer value, strengthen our competitive position, and drive measurable business outcomes.</span></div> <div class="s21"><span class="s19">•<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="s11">We are looking for a builder, operator, and hands-on technical leader who combines strategic vision with a bias for execution, experimentation, and rapid learning. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable discussing long-term AI strategy with executives and working alongside engineers to bring innovative ideas to life.</span></div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="s22">&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Target cash compensation range:&nbsp;<span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">$226,300 - $296,450</span> USD Annually</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information on total rewards package, go</span></em><a href="https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">HERE</span></em></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Hybrid &amp; Flexible Workplace Policy</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">iSpot supports a hybrid and flexible workplace. Depending on location and work responsibilities, employees may be designated as full-time or part-time office-based or a fully remote employee. A hybrid work schedule indicates that you work in the office some days and work from home other days. The best hybrid workplaces allow for flexibility while also encouraging consistency.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those local or living in surrounding areas to one of our offices (Bellevue, WA or New York, NY) will work a hybrid schedule, coming into their local office 1-3 days a week. While those in a role, not office-based and located further away from our offices, will work a fully remote schedule. If you have questions regarding exact details of our hybrid &amp; flexible workplace policy, please let your recruiter know and they will discuss with you further.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">#LI-Hybrid</span></em></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>If you don't feel you met every single requirement for the role, don't rule yourself out. Please apply anyway!</p> <p>iSpot is an equal opportunity employer. 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