Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Performance Recommendation

Smartly
Helsinki, Berlin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Coaching","Communication","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead and grow the Ad Performance Recommendation team building an AI-powered system that uses marketing ad-tech data to identify performance signals and deliver actionable recommendations. As part of the AI Platform organization, you’ll guide a multidisciplinary group across data science, ML engineering, and software engineering, drive scalable ML models to production, and ensure privacy, security, and ethical compliance while collaborating across teams to measure business impact.

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Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Performance Recommendation

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Job Summary

Lead and grow the Ad Performance Recommendation team building an AI-powered system that uses marketing ad-tech data to identify performance signals and deliver actionable recommendations. As part of the AI Platform organization, you’ll guide a multidisciplinary group across data science, ML engineering, and software engineering, drive scalable ML models to production, and ensure privacy, security, and ethical compliance while collaborating across teams to measure business impact.
Location: Helsinki, Berlin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow the Ad Performance Recommendation team with technical direction and hands-on leadership.
  • •Develop and optimize AdTech ML models (predictive/simulation techniques) for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
  • •Ensure privacy, security, and ethical compliance for ML applications using personal data.
  • •Mentor team members and remove obstacles; partner with recruiting and other AI Platform leaders to shape long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience building services and products.
  • •5+ years applying machine learning to real-life problems.
  • •3+ years leading teams.
  • •Strong ML stack proficiency, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, and SQL.
  • •M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics).
Experience:7+ yearsAd techAIMachine learningProduction systems
Education:Master's in Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCoachingCommunicationCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchTensorFlowPythonSQLStan

Company Brief

Smartly
Provides a cloud-based advertising automation platform that helps brands and agencies create, manage, and optimize scalable social and digital ad campaigns across channels with creative and measurement tools.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
Founded: 2013
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