Director of Technology, Ad Tech

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

The role of Director of Technology involves leading engineering execution across their platform. 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 themselves when necessary. Their leverage comes from judgment: the team produces options, and you ensure the right one ships.

What The Director of Technology Will Do:

• Partner with the Chief Technology & Product Officer (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.
• A 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 discussions with executive leadership and detailed technical reviews 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.