Engineering Manager, Planning

Madhive is the leading tech company engineered for modern TV advertising. Advertisers seamlessly customize and automate the OTT buying process into an operating system with our self-service platform. Powered by our industry-leading bidder and device graph that processes 260 billion available ad opportunities per day, we deliver precise, brand-safe, audience connections efficiently at scale.

Madhive is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Planning team. The team's core responsibility lies in organizing audience data and leveraging statistical methods to forecast ad campaign performance. The successful candidate will lead a small team of world-class cross-functional engineers, possessing a strong background in both technical leadership and data-driven forecasting methodologies. You will drive efficiencies in our processes, tools, and automation, taking a data-driven approach to measuring your team's success.

Our team strives to be motivated only by building the best software for our users. We seek to understand the "why" behind the "what." We regularly tackle problems, learn new technologies, or just share what we know with others. We test our code and invest in the health of our systems. We push each other, learn from each other, and strive to grow continually.

What you'll do:

• Lead and manage a team of cross-functional engineers responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of streaming data pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses in a collaborative & agile development environment.
• Apply deep expertise in SQL and statistical analysis to streamline data processes, ensuring the efficient management and pipelining of audience data for Planning purposes.
• Guide the team in utilizing advanced statistical and machine learning models to enhance Planning accuracy.
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies; facilitate communication between multiple initiatives.
• Effectively navigate the organization and partner with various functions, including (but not limited to) Product, Sales, Finance, and Customer Success, to gather requirements and ensure successful product development and implementation.
• Hire and nurture engineers through mentorship and career advocacy. Provide goals, career paths, promotion guidance, and motivation to your direct reports.
• Contribute to the adoption of robust software architecture, development of best practices, and new technologies.
• Be an advocate for the vision of our product team.
• Facilitate daily standups, resolve blocked tasks, assist with planning and estimation, and host retrospectives.
• Ensure a culture of operational excellence, managing and addressing on-call duties and responding to production incidents as they occur.
• Act as a point of escalation by actively measuring and reducing the operational burden of your teams, …