Engineering Director

Teads is a global and premium Ad Tech platform at scale and has an **engineering team that brings together 230+** talented individuals in 3 main locations (Montpellier, Paris, and Bucharest). We are organized in agile and autonomous **feature teams and share** technical knowledge within several communities of practice.To innovate, we promote diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.Our organization offers the opportunity for hybrid work, allowing for two days in the office and the option to work remotely for the remainder of the week. Additionally, we provide relocation packages for those who prefer to relocate to one of our engineering offices. We are looking for an **Engineering Director** to scale to the next level and join a team of passionate engineers who build premium solutions at scale. Every day we tackle ambiguous and stimulating challenges. We build and operate large scale distributed data-systems that handle GBs/second of data, real-time optimization systems leveraging AI, and rich UX solutions for our expert users.The Director role at Teads is a manager of managers plus ICs, reporting to a VP. They are responsible for growing their team culture, ensuring sound engineering decisions, working closely with Product and other engineering teams, and above all building a culture of excellence.**More about our Supply Team** The Supply Team are responsible for building products to delight our premium publishers with a current 99%+ retention rate by: - Building a self serve interface (Teads For Publisher) that help our publishers to monetize their premium content with the most premium demand and develop backend tooling to onboard and manage our premium inventory - Building tools to manage minimum revenue guarantee contract at scale while developing monetization algorithm and forecasting tools - Develop omnichannel (web, mobile, connected TV ) technologies to connect more than 1.3 trillions ad requests per quarter over 3 data centers We operate in a lean and experienced organization of 3 managers and 16 IC with plans to grow the team. **What will you do?**: As an **Engineering Director for our Supply Team**, your missions will be to: - Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment - Drive prioritization and be accountable for the execution of a large scope - Ensure company business objectives are well understood and implemented - Set up your teams for growth in a self-sustainable manner through effective processes - Define and communicate the strategy and vision to the teams - Regularly interacts with senior management in and outside innovation on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers - Influences technical decision making to maintain a healthy and coherent tech stack - Operates at both a tactical and a strategic level - Generates solutions and innovative ideas to complex people problems - Executes leadership with little direction from VP **What will you bring to the team?**: - Proven experience as a technical leader managing team lead and engineering managers - Prior experience in performance based advertising or in connected TV is a big plus - Innovative thinking, collaboration skills, and comfortable solving ambiguous problems - Ability to manage technical teams, providing regular feedback, mentorship or coaching - Team-oriented management style with the ability to recruit and develop technical talent and to inspire and motivate multiple engineering teams to work together as a cohesive and highly productive unit - Sound experience with designing, developing and extending large and complex systems - Pride in, initiative, leadership and collaboration - You embrace change and are enthusiast to learn in order to bring projects to proper completion - Excellent organization, prioritization, and communication skills in English for multiple audiences (Engineering, Product, Stakeholders,...) **Why work at Teads?** At Teads, Product and Engineering work hand in hand and are aligned towards the same goal: to **scale our business** while continuing to create **new and exciting products**. - We value **team spirit, pragmatism, listening** and we encourage **initiatives**: - We promote **end-to-end development**: "You build it, you run it, you monitor it" - We **share knowledge** and support with each other beyond any organizational boundary - We fix issues during a **blameless **postmortem and learn from it so that it doesn't happen twice - We are working together to create **great engineering**, but we are also supportive to promote a great **work-life** **balance** **We care about you**: - **Security & Savings**: Attractive package providing financial peace of mind, including competitive compensation, profit-sharing, daily meal vouchers (Swile), family health insurance (Alan), and a personalized relocation package (if needed). - **Career Deve