Director, Engineering - Retail Media

About The Company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.

Placing a premium on adaptability, safety and family well-being, our work model, Presence with a Purpose, offers a hybrid work environment between remote work and office time. A one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to everyone, and teams are empowered to make decisions best for them.

Bring your flavor

Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.

What you will be doing

The Engineering team at Albertsons Media Collective is looking for a Director, Engineering to join our team. The Engineering team plays a crucial role in developing innovative ad products and premium data-driven solutions that empower advertisers to reach millions of shoppers with highly targeted ads while enhancing the shopping experience. In this position, you will create a bold vision for Monetization platform, identifying opportunities that will allow our customers' experiences with us to be delightful and frictionless while maximizing the revenue for our retail media business. You will provide direction to an Engineering team and collaborate with diverse business and technical teams, including advertisers, suppliers, partners, and industry standards organizations, to define priorities and develop next-generation capabilities for retail media.

The position will be based in Pleasanton, CA.

Main responsibilities

• Lead team of software engineers to develop and deliver on the ad tech roadmap to support retail media platform.
• Map business requirements to evolve to a scalable architecture. Build secure, maintainable, reliable, scalable software solutions and services.
• Drive improvements for monetization architecture, including improving ad formats, building out relevant ad experiences and data solutions.
• Delivering software releases iteratively on schedule and with quality.
• Manage the ad tech stack and distributed infrastructure to drive operational excellence. Work with SRE teams to ensure monitoring, alerting of ad tech platforms with well-defined performance metrics.
• Continuously improve product quality, system performance, team engagement and productivity.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technical design sessions, adopt modern software development standards and Ad Tech standards where applicable.
• Inform and drive strategic alignment and partnerships with functional and technical peers and leaders.
• Evaluate research and market analysis, meet with third party vendors, and maintain knowledge of industry innovations and technology platforms to inform strategy.
• Establish and nurture strategic vendor relationships; influence vendors to align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Drive growth for the business by applying technical and domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action.
• Navigate and solve problems within a complex matrix environment.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.
• Attract, retain, develop, and motivate top talent.
• Conduct annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback.
• Collaborate with enterprise partners to drive process improvements and improve velocity.
  
  

The salary range is $182,400 to $247,560. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, sick pay, PTO/Vacation pay/Flexible Time Off, paid holidays (8-9 days annually) bereavement pay and retirement benefits (such as 401(k) eligibility). Associates in this position are also eligible for a quarterly bonus.

A copy of the full job description can be made available to you.

What we are searching for

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or Engineering.
• At least 10 years of experience in Engineering Management, preferably leading ad-supported media experiences within the tech, retail, entertainment, or social media industries, or alike.
• 8-10 years' experience managing direct reports in high- tech company.
• Strong communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of digital advertising and consumer privacy best practices.
• At least 8 years of industry experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems.
• Strong technical background in Ad tech - serving, targeting, and/or measurement technologies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to effectively communicate across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated passion to keep up with the latest advancements in Ad technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills, being comfortable with diving into the data and analyzing trends.
• Passionate technologist with a brilliant growth hacker mindset and business acumen
  
  

What is it like at Albertsons?

Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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