PubMatic is the leading marketing automation software company for publishers. Through real-time analytics, yield management, and workflow automation, PubMatic enables publishers to make smarter inventory decisions and improve revenue performance. Focused on serving the needs of premium publishers, PubMatic inspires buyer confidence by providing flexibility in audience discovery and planning media campaigns through its Media Buyer Console and APIs. The company's marketing automation software platform provides a global roster of comScore publishers with a single view into their advertiser relationships across every screen, every channel and every format. PubMatic was ranked by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing companies in the US for the fourth consecutive year in 2015. The company has offices worldwide, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Engineering, the Director of Engineering will work closely with other functional leaders in the company such as business, support, product management, marketing and others. They will be responsible product development activities.

Responsibilities:

• Provide vision and leadership for existing and emerging product and application technologies through an understanding of customer and business needs
• Manage a team of 30-40 engineers
• Cultivate sustained innovation to deliver exceptional products to customers
• Provide project management, technical direction and guidance for all product development
• Ensure the optimal application of current technology, engineering resources, outsourced design services and project contractors to meet product development and/or customer requirements
• Ensure product requirements are properly documented and understood by all stake holders early in the development
• Ensure timely and top quality product delivery
• Ensure that the end product is fully and correctly defined and documented
• Ensure implementation/continuous improvement of formal processes to support product development activities
• Drive the architecture/design decisions needed to achieve cost-effective and high performance results
• Provide guidance to the team for technical escalations for escalations that come to the engineering
• Oversee, coordinate and manage multiple product development projects
• Foster engineering’s “best practices” for the development of high-quality products
• Recruit, motivate and empower employees, assign and direct their activities.

• Should have been working at a startup as VP/Director of Engineering/ Manager for the past 1-6 years
• The willingness and experience to work hands-on is most important for this role
• Candidates who have worked on at least one of the following domains as his main job for a continuous period of 2 years in the past 4 years – online advertising, data analytics, e-commerce, Web 2.0, Web Services, Scalability/performance, etc.
• Candidates should have experience in working on one or more of the following – scalable web applications, high performance applications, ad-optimization and auctioning, Web 2.0, algorithms and Web Services.
• Experience in handling engineering escalations from customers will be preferred
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and innovate, excellent team building and leadership skills
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels
• Strong operational and project management skills in a product development environment
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Engineering

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.