Head of Product Engineering
On-siteBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end technical and product roadmap for the UA DSP, unifying Data Science, Data Engineering, Analytics, BI, and backend engineering into a single, coherent product function. Lead and mentor a team of roughly 20 across engineering and data disciplines while driving the long-term transition from managed-service to self-service tooling. Partner closely with Go-to-Market and Sales leadership to translate market opportunities into technical feasibility assessments and defend product strategy in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment. This hands-on leadership role sits above the Data Science function to set direction for the demand-side platform powering fair, efficient in-app programmatic advertising.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- demonstrated hands-on experience having built and scaled a DSP or comparable real-time bidding platform
- 5+ years in a senior engineering or product engineering leadership role
- managing teams of 15–20+ across multiple disciplines
- Strong working knowledge of machine learning and data science concepts
- Solid grounding in data engineering, analytics, and BI
- ability to operate fluently across all of them
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- ability to operate with significant ambiguity in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment
- Advanced Business English, particularly in writing and speaking
- Willingness to relocate to Barcelona
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience at a full-stack ad tech company (exchange + mediation + DSP)
- Experience building or scaling machine learning-driven bidding/prediction systems specifically in mobile UA or programmatic advertising
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