Roku
TV streaming platform
SeniorSoftwareEngineeringManager,AdsAuction&MarketplaceOptimization
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“Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Auction & Marketplace Optimization at Roku. Skills: Ads Auction and Marketplace optimization, Yield optimization, Gross profit optimization, Real-time multi-objective optimization, Team leadership, Roadmap development, Experimentation design and execution. Build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace. Optimize yield, gross profit”
What You'll Achieve.
Optimize yield; Optimize gross profit; Connect consumers to content; Enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences; Provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers; Delight millions of TV streamers
Industry & Context.
Solve a large set of complex problems; Problem-solvers
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience leading teams that apply auction theory, quantitative optimization, advanced statistical methods to large, sophisticated datasets, 5+ years experience of leading engineering teams from design to implementation, ensuring scalability and reliability, Deep mathematical understanding of auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization and statistics, Hands-on experience with Python and Java in a production environment, BS or higher in CS, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
Nice to Have
Experience in the Advertising domain, 5+ years of experience applying auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization, advanced statistical methods to large, sophisticated datasets, MS or PhD in CS, Economics, Math or a related quantitative field
What You'll Do.
Build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace
Perform real-time multi-objective optimization across various short and long term objectives
Build control and simulation systems
Design and run experiments
Extend the experimentation framework
Define the vision and strategy for your group
Build and deliver the roadmap
and evolution of real-time ads auction and marketplace systems
Build and enhance core auction capabilities including ad pod construction
pacing and budget enforcement
Design auction logic that balances viewer experience with advertiser performance
platform revenue and gross profit
Drive yield and gross profit optimization through auction design
and pricing experiments
Lead experimentation using A testing
offline replay frameworks
and make data-driven decisions based on performance metrics and statistical rigor
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with other Engineering, Inventory and Product teams; Collaborate with teams across geographic locations and time zones; Work in a collaborative environment
Process & Methodology
Building and delivering roadmaps, Ensuring scalability and reliability
Full Job Description
Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. About the team The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers, Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span across different disciplines and technologies to perform realtime multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale and low latencies. We use Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning, Experimentation and Inference Platform that powers the entire landscape which we continuously evolve over time. About the role In this role you will build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace to optimize yield, gross profit, perform realtime multi-objective optimization across various short and long term objectives, build control and simulation systems, design and run experiments and extend the experimentation framework. You will partner closely with other Engineering, Inventory and Product teams to define the vision and strategy for your group and to build and deliver the roadmap. For California Only - The estimated annual salary for
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