Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Performance Recommendation

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

Lead and grow the Ad Performance Recommendation team to build an AI-powered system that turns marketing ad tech and data signals into actionable recommendations for digital advertisers. As part of the AI Platform organization, you’ll guide a multidisciplinary group spanning Data Science, ML Engineering, and Software Engineering—driving scalable ML models, ensuring privacy/security/ethical compliance, and collaborating across product teams to deliver measurable 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 to build an AI-powered system that turns marketing ad tech and data signals into actionable recommendations for digital advertisers. As part of the AI Platform organization, you’ll guide a multidisciplinary group spanning Data Science, ML Engineering, and Software Engineering—driving scalable ML models, ensuring privacy/security/ethical compliance, and collaborating across product teams to deliver measurable business impact.
Location: 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, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
  • •Develop and optimize AdTech-focused ML models, including predictive and 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 through coaching and career development; remove obstacles and partner with recruiting to scale the team.

Pay and Benefits

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.
  • •Proficiency with key ML technologies including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, and SQL.
  • •M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
Experience:7+ yearsAIMachine learningAd techMarketing technologyProduction systems
Education:Master's in Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationCross-functional collaborationContinuous learning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchTensorFlowPythonSQLStanBayesian

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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