TechnicalManager

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand. Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence. About the Creative Serving team The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in serving every ad across Liftoff’s product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. Creative Serving systems are deep, strategic integrations with our partner exchanges, and require impeccable uptime to drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal Vungle Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities. As a Technical Manager on the Creative Serving team, you will: Define, shape, and clearly communicate our long-term creative serving strategy, vision, and roadmap. Translate business goals into team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders. Work closely with ML and product stakeholders at Liftoff, ensuring our creative serving infrastructure meets their needs with a consistently high quality bar. Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring a steady stream of improvements as your team builds for the long term. Set the bar for our engineering culture, encouraging the development of best practices, holding individuals accountable for slippage, and improving processes. Provide deep technical feedback on key projects as necessary. Grow the next generation of engineers and leaders. Requirements: 5+ years of industry experience in