VP, Engineering and Ad Technology

Fans demand access to content on their own terms on any device, anytime, anywhere. We are those fans. As a result the BAMTECH Media team helped pioneer live event streaming over the Internet in 2002 for Major League Baseball. The passion to improve that experience led to many impressive firsts: the first 720p or “HD Ready” stream, the consecutive record for concurrent streams and the first stream in 8K ultra HD. Today BAMTECH Media has a proven, scalable platform that powers direct-to-consumer applications for leading entertainment brands; and is now a major player in sports and eSports rights acquisition
BAMTECH Media is a place for the creative and the bold. We’re seeking talent across disciplines to join our team. Whether New York City, San Francisco, Manchester or Amsterdam we provide opportunities to elevate your career and transform an industry. Responsibilities

• Partner with management to identify business opportunities for any Ad Tech initiatives
• Leverage existing domain expertise and ensure adequate knowledge transfer amongst the Ad Tech engineering team
• Help guide roadmap, and align to team capacity
• Innovate and enhance overall Ad Tech functions include ad transcode, ad insertion and reporting
• Drive technical, architectural, and organizational decisions, ensuring BAMTECH will build a scalable, efficient, and maintainable infrastructure
• Optimize interactions and processes between internal digital advertising engineering resources and other engineering leads, as well as product management and other stakeholders
• Budget and plan team capacity with stakeholders, including finance. Own overall TCO for all Ad Tech services and infrastructure
• Manage / mentor software engineering resources on execution as well as growth
• Establish enterprise code deployments and code review processes

Basic Qualifications

• Deep experience working across Google's DFP and Freewheel’s MRM ad serving technologies, including third party ad networks
• Acute understanding of video streaming infrastructure, video streaming protocols, and ad serving
• Demonstrated ability to architect low-latency, high load systems that scale to millions of concurrent requests
• Deep understanding of utilizing on-prem and cloud resources for both scale and resiliency
• Has strong video adtech experience, and familiar with all industry trends and stands including VAST, VPAID and Header Bidding
• Experienced in code reviews, Dev Ops, and other continuous integration principles.
• Proven ability to develop and coach a strong team involved with product creation, implementation and vision
• 10+ years experience in leading an engineering team
• Proven ability to coach and lead a team that executes consistently, rapidly, and effectively

Company Overview BAMTECH is a streaming technology joint venture between The Walt Disney Company, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, and the National Hockey League. BAMTECH handles streaming for numerous partners, some of which include, HBO, MLB, NHL, Eurosport, ESPN, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
Fans demand access to content on their own terms on any device, anytime, anywhere. We are those fans. As a result, the BAMTECH Media team helped pioneer live event streaming over the Internet in 2002 for Major League Baseball. The passion to improve that experience led to many impressive firsts: the first 720p or “HD Ready” stream, the consecutive record for concurrent streams and the first stream in 8K ultra HD. Today, BAMTECH has a proven, scalable platform that powers direct-to-consumer applications for leading entertainment brands; and is now a major player in sports and eSports rights acquisition.