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Polaris supports client and integration management, normalized marketing data, reporting, measurement, forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, and client insights through internal and client-facing products.\nThis leader is accountable for engineering strategy, people, architecture, delivery, quality, reliability, security, and financial stewardship. The role sits on the Product Development Leadership team and partners closely with Product, UX, Data Science, Security, Finance, agency leaders, clients, and technology vendors. It requires executive judgment and strong technical depth. The VP must be able to lead through managers and senior engineers while remaining capable of stepping into architecture decisions, critical incidents, and unfamiliar technical problems when the business needs it.\nYou will scale the engineering organization, its leadership structure, and its development practices as Polaris grows in scope and complexity, as well as continue to push adoption of AI across software development and build the shared platform capabilities, tooling, and infrastructure that allow teams to ship faster while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and security.\nYou Will Be\nLeading, coaching, and holding accountable engineering managers and individual contributors across our application stack, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform.\nBuild technical leaders that reduces single points of failure and allows the organization to scale without depending on individual heroics.\nSet and reinforce a high bar for technical judgment, delivery ownership, collaboration, documentation, operational discipline, and customer impact.\nOwn engineering capacity planning, staffing allocations, and the engineering operating budget. Manage cloud, data, AI, tooling, and software vendor spend.\nPartner with Product, UX, Data Science, and the Chief Product Officer to shape the Polaris roadmap, sequence investments, expose dependencies, and make clear tradeoffs among customer value, speed, reliability, cost, and technical health.\nTranslate agency, client, and market needs into a coherent technology strategy across Polaris IQ, shared data products, and measurement applications.\nMaintain an actionable architecture roadmap that supports product growth while retiring fragile systems, duplicated capabilities, and unnecessary operational cost.\nDefine and manage an engineering scorecard that tracks delivery speed and quality. Continue moving delivery toward more frequent deployments through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release automation, and fast feedback loops.\nSet and execute the engineering AI strategy. Evaluate coding agents, model providers, agent runtimes, and automation opportunities based on measurable value, security, reliability, usability, and total cost.\nOwn the end-to-end technical architecture across Python and Django services, React applications, PostgreSQL, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions.\nEnsure data pipelines and systems deliver accurate, timely, and observable data across advertising, analytics, commerce, and client data sources.\nOwn service-level objectives, incident management, corrective actions, capacity planning, and risk reduction for application, platform, and data workloads.\nAct as the final engineering escalation for critical incidents and high-risk architecture decisions, while ensuring durable runbooks, monitoring, and delegated ownership exist afterward.\nPartner with Security and Legal on secure architecture, identity and access management, secrets, vendor risk, data governance, incident response, client assurance, and compliance obligations.\nYou Must Have\n12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.\nA record of building healthy teams, developing leaders, raising accountability, and delivering complex products in close partnership with Product, UX, Data Science, Security, and business stakeholders.\nDeep architectural judgment across modern SaaS applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and security. Direct experience with GCP and the Polaris stack is valuable, but equivalent depth in comparable technologies is acceptable.\nExperience improving developer productivity and delivery performance through platform capabilities, automation, testing, operational standards, and reporting on DevEx KPIs.\nPractical experience adopting AI-assisted development or agentic workflows, with the judgment to balance speed against security, quality, cost, and maintainability.\nDemonstrated ownership of cloud and software budgets, vendor relationships, capacity planning, and technical contract decisions.\nCalm, decisive leadership and the ability to move between executive communication and hands-on technical investigation when necessary.\nClear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining risk, architecture, cost, or tradeoffs to clients and non-technical leaders.\nA bias toward durable systems, explicit ownership, and delegation. This role must solve urgent problems without allowing the organization to remain dependent on a single person.\nNice to Have\nDigital marketing, advertising technology, agency technology, or high-volume data and analytics integrations.\nCustomer-facing, multi-tenant enterprise products that share data, services, or platform capabilities.\nData ingestion and transformation at scale, including heterogeneous APIs, normalized data models, orchestration, warehouse design, and data quality controls.\nProduction support for data science and measurement applications such as marketing mix modeling, forecasting, experimentation, optimization, or anomaly detection.\nSOC 2 or similar control environments, enterprise identity and access management, and client security reviews.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6108,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Advertising","Search Engine Optimization (SEO)","Digital Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T23:01:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.604,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":20,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wpromote-vp-of-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wpromote-vp-of-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T14:01:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25832,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5789},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5789"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwpromote-vp-of-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwpromote-vp-of-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwpromote-vp-of-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wpromote-vp-of-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwpromote-vp-of-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2747822}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"wpromote.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2747822},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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