Choreograph is WPP's global data products and technology company. We're on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation.
We work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. We deliver this through the Open Media Studio, an AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.
We're a Product & Engineering team within Choreograph that's focused on optimizing the impact that advertising has for audiences and the brands that we work with. We do this by optimizing media buying and employing dynamic creative, to deliver impactful and relevant messages.
This role will work primarily on our Creative Optimization product, an omnichannel dynamic content optimisation (DCO) platform. We utilize AI to optimize for the best performing content, helping advertisers to tell the right story at the right time, and audiences to see messages that matter.
Our culture is based on mutual trust, sharing, building, and learning together. We value simplicity, maintainability, automation, and metrics.
As our Engineering Director for Ad Serving, you will work side by side with Product, Support, Services, platform partners, and your Ad Serving engineering team to design, build, deliver and operate our ad server. As a leader in our Optimization Engineering practice, you'll work with Product, Operations, other Engineering Directors and principal engineers, and our VP Software Engineering, to shape our practice. Lead our Adserving engineering team, overseeing and participating in all stages of development, delivery and operations.
Manage our ad server as a product, devising and maintain our strategy, develop and drive execution of our roadmap.
Employ and champion modern pragmatic engineering principles, practices, and tooling.
Take a leadership role in driving ongoing improvements to our engineering principles, practices, and tooling.
Develop and maintain a contemporary understanding of AdTech developments, industry standards, partner and competitor platform developments, and commercial models.
AdTech leadership experience across both software engineering leadership and ad serving / ad operations leadership roles.
Proven experience designing simple / scalable / reliable architectures and building concurrent, distributed systems.
Proven experience and a passion for developing and operating concurrent distributed systems leveraging k8s, and AWS or GCP.
Proven experience in modern software development and testing practices.
Strong English, excellent influencing and communication skills, and excellent documentation skills.
Choreograph is the beating heart of data inside WPP's media investment group, GroupM. GroupM and all its affiliates embrace and celebrate diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity.
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