GumGum is seeking a hands-on, business-oriented Vice President, Legal to lead the Company’s global legal function. Reporting to the CFO, this role serves as the senior legal leader for the organization and a trusted advisor to executive leadership.

This position is designed for a pragmatic operator who can balance risk management with commercial enablement. The VP, Legal will directly engage in complex commercial negotiations, employment matters, regulatory compliance, and governance oversight, while building scalable processes that support revenue growth and global operations.

As a private, globally operating advertising technology company, GumGum requires a legal leader who exercises sound judgment in fast-moving environments, partners closely with cross-functional teams, and ensures the Company operates with integrity and discipline while enabling innovation.

What You'll Achieve

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team.
• Provide practical, business-focused counsel on commercial initiatives, operational decisions, and risk management.
• Attend Board meetings and coordinate governance matters in partnership with outside counsel.
• Oversee the Company’s global commercial contracting function.
• Support legal execution of key commercial agreements, including customer contracts, ad insertion orders, supply partner agreements, joint business plans, global endeavors, vendor agreements, licensing arrangements, technology partnerships, and strategic collaborations.
• Ensure contract structures appropriately balance commercial objectives with risk management.
• Serve as the primary legal partner to the People team on global employment matters.
• Advise on performance management, terminations, investigations, compensation programs, equity plans, employee relations issues, and workplace policies.
• Oversee global employment compliance across jurisdictions in which GumGum operates.
• Manage outside employment counsel strategically to control cost and ensure consistency.
• Provide practical legal guidance on data privacy and protection matters, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other applicable global regulations.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to ensure responsible and compliant use of data and AI technologies.
• Monitor evolving regulatory developments in adtech, digital media, privacy, and AI, advising leadership on business impact.
• Coordinate Board governance activities, resolutions, and corporate records in partnership with outside counsel.
• Oversee the selection, management, and budgeting of outside counsel globally.
• Support corporate finance and strategic initiatives as needed in coordination with the CFO and external advisors.
• Manage litigation, disputes, and regulatory inquiries globally.
• Develop pragmatic strategies to mitigate exposure while protecting business relationships and reputation.
• Partner with Finance on insurance coverage and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead and develop a small, high-performing legal team.
• Clarify role responsibilities and ensure efficient allocation of work across commercial, employment, and compliance matters.
• Foster a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and partnership with the business.

Skills You'll Bring

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
• Active bar membership (California or New York preferred)
• +15 years of legal experience, including significant private or in-house experience with technology, media, or adtech companies
• Strong background in commercial contracting and complex technology agreements
• Meaningful experience advising on employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience supporting executive leadership teams
• Familiarity with data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance in digital advertising or related sectors
• Experience managing outside counsel and legal budgets
• Prior law firm training preferred

What We Offer

At GumGum, competitive base pay is a part of a total rewards package which also includes benefits, an emphasis on recognition, development, and wellness. The reasonable estimated base pay range for this role is from $280,000 - $310,000 annually.  The actual amount may be higher or lower. Individual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, work location, and labor market conditions.

The total rewards package offered also includes an employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan, and depending on the role, participation in a bonus, commission, or stock incentive program. Your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process. Learn more about our U.S. benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits.

The Ad Exchange development team at GumGum is responsible for the technical development and operations of our Ad Exchange technology. The Ad Exchange software handles a high volume of requests (40 million requests per minute) and is a highly distributed Java web service. Our team currently uses technologies such as Java, Spring, MySQL, Kafka, Aerospike, ScyllaDb, Memcached, and more.

This role works with product managers and various engineering teams to deliver on priorities for the company, making a significant impact on a key revenue stream for the business.  You’ll be expected to take ownership of complex features, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction while collaborating with cross-functional partners across Product, Design, DevOps, Data Engineering and other teams. 

Note: GumGum fosters a flexible work environment, offering GumGummers the ability to work either in-office or remotely/from home. For this position, in-person/office collaboration is required 2 days per week, supporting a balanced approach to flexibility and team engagement.

What You'll Achieve

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex features and high volume, high traffic web services written in Java, orchestrated with Spring, and using data from MySQL, ScyllaDB and Aerospike.
• Architect solutions with attention to performance, maintainability, and usability, solve ambiguous problems, and execute on a solution with a diverse team of engineers across various teams such as Data and Web.
• Setup integrations with supply and demand side partners.
• Understand ML models and integrate new optimization models into Ad Exchange.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices as a model for other team members.Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring application reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with Product and internal stakeholders to identify, prioritize and develop new features and improvements for our products, as well as provide support for any stakeholder issues.
• Improve the performance of the Ad Exchange, reducing latency and infrastructure cost.
• Take a leadership role in actively reviewing other teammates’ code and provide insightful feedback.
• Develop a deep understanding of the advertising industry as required to be able to make decisions about our technical approach and provide our users with more efficient applications.
• Use technology innovatively to implement various ad tech features, privacy frameworks and setup integrations with external partners
• Contribute to internal documentation, technical blogs, or presentations to elevate engineering visibility and learning.

Skills You'll Bring

• B.S. in Computer Science preferred or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience as an engineer with understanding of programming languages, preferably Java and Spring Framework
• A history of successfully shipping products into production
• Experience in taking ownership of end to end product implementation and providing stakeholder updates
• Preferred experience in a high volume transaction system > 100k transactions/second
• Experience in Ad Tech, CTV and Real-Time bidding is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams across timezones, including remote collaboration
• Fast learner with excellent problem-solving skills in highly complex multi-threaded applications
• Experience working with AWS and distributed systems such as Kafka, Aerospike or equivalent large scale data storage/processing systems
• Experience with MySQL or similar RDBMS systems
• Analytical thinking and understanding complex logic
• An understanding of RTB (Real Time Bidding protocol)
• Experience working with Git, Gradle, and CI/CD delivery pipelines

What We Offer

At GumGum, competitive base pay is a part of a total rewards package which also includes benefits, an emphasis on recognition, development, and wellness. The reasonable estimated base pay range for this role is from $186,000-215,000 annually.  The actual amount may be higher or lower. Individual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, work location, and labor market conditions.

The total rewards package offered also includes an employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan, and depending on the role, participation in a bonus, commission, or stock incentive program. Your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process. Learn more about our U.S. benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits.

The Ad Exchange development team at GumGum is responsible for the technical development and operations of our Ad Exchange technology. The Ad Exchange software handles a high volume of requests (40 million requests per minute) and is a highly distributed Java web service. Our team currently uses technologies such as Java, Spring, MySQL, Kafka, Aerospike, ScyllaDb, Memcached, and more.

This role works with product managers and various engineering teams to deliver on priorities for the company, making a significant impact on a key revenue stream for the business. You will support the design and implementation of projects while maximizing the efficiency and scalability of our systems.

Note: GumGum fosters a flexible work environment, offering GumGummers the ability to work either in-office or remotely/from home. For this position, in-person/office collaboration is required 2 days per week, supporting a balanced approach to flexibility and team engagement.

What You'll Achieve

• Design, develop and maintain new features and improvements to our high volume, high traffic web services written in Java, orchestrated with Spring, and using data from MySQL, ScyllaDB and Aerospike.
• Engage in technical architecture discussions, solve ambiguous problems, and execute on a solution with a team of engineers across multiple teams.
• Create algorithms to optimize KPIs such as viewability, CTR, Revenue, costs etc.
• Improve the performance of the Ad Exchange including reducing latency and cost.
• Collaborate with Product and internal stakeholders to identify, prioritize and develop new features and improvements for our products, as well as provide support for any stakeholder issues.
• Support and train junior engineers in technical, business, and product concepts.
• Actively review other developers’ code and provide insightful feedback.
• Troubleshoot user-reported issues from the team’s products.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring application reliability and performance.
• Develop a deep understanding of the advertising industry as required to be able to make decisions about our technical approach and provide our users with more efficient applications.
• Contribute to internal documentation, technical blogs, or presentations to elevate engineering visibility and learning.

Skills You'll Bring

• B.S. in Computer Science preferred or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of experience as a developer with understanding of programming languages, preferably Java and Spring Framework.
• A history of successfully shipping products into production.
• Experience with AWS and distributed systems such as Kafka, DynamoDB or equivalent. 
• Experience with RDBMS systems.
• Experience with Git, Gradle, and CI/CD delivery pipelines

What We Offer

At GumGum, competitive base pay is a part of a total rewards package which also includes benefits, an emphasis on recognition, development, and wellness. The reasonable estimated base pay range for this role is from $159,000 - $182,000. The actual amount may be higher or lower. Individual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, work location, and labor market conditions.

The total rewards package offered also includes an employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan, and depending on the role, participation in a bonus, commission, or stock incentive program. Your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process. Learn more about our U.S. benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits.

The Tech Lead, JavaScript Engineering works with a team of frontend and backend software engineers that build and maintain a variety of web applications and JavaScript libraries. This role will have a real impact working on apps and libraries used every day across the company, and will lead a team that prioritizes skill sharing and learning. The team currently uses technologies such as JavaScript, React, and AWS Amplify. 

This role will lead their team to success, planning and executing projects across the stack by defining technical requirements, estimating level of effort, scoping projects to meet deadlines, and managing agile processes. The Tech Lead will work closely with product owners, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to deliver projects on time and with high quality. This will require identifying and resolving risks and blockers, reviewing code, and providing architectural guidance to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.

The Tech Lead will also begin to develop management and leadership skills, fostering relationships with their team and others they work with, setting best practices, giving feedback, playing an active role with hiring and training, and fostering a deep knowledge of the business.

What You'll Achieve

Leadership and Impact

• Sets best practices and guidelines for the team along with their manager.
• Proactively establishes and maintains relationships with stakeholders to answer any questions. Effectively triages problems, and keeps stakeholders informed in a positive manner.
• Conducts design and code reviews of all complexity and is able to guide architectural decisions.
• In general takes ownership of the system(s) and is involved in all aspects of it.
• Helps provide the architectural roadmap for the system(s).
• Keeps up to date with standards and new tools in the industry and passes on the knowledge to the team.
• Experiments with new frameworks and tools that will help improve the system(s).
• Works with others to find creative solutions to customer issues.

People Leadership

• Does occasional 1:1s with team members to check in and see if there are any team issues or processes that can be improved.
• Surfaces potential improvement areas for the team to their manager.
• Gives thoughtful feedback to team members and writes insightful 360 reviews.
• Supports the implementation of new team processes by exemplifying these processes and actively facilitating team adaptation and engagement.
• Conducts interviews with new candidates, often leading interviews.
• Assists manager w/ hiring process improvement suggestions such as updating existing hacker rank tests, coding/pair-programming questions and/or design questions.
• Works with their manager in identifying appropriate and relevant training needs for the team.

Product Development and Project Management

• Works with their team and their manager to prioritize critical projects and ensure their completion. Knowledgeable of their team's capabilities to distribute work amongst team members based on their bandwidth / skills to ensure project timelines are met.
• Manages the agile process if applicable. Leads scrum related meetings such as stand up, sprint planning, and retro.
• Helps define technical requirements and accurate level of effort for stakeholder asks. Breaks down large initiatives into actionable Jira tickets for the team.
• Handles the assignment of work for their projects and team, also keeping in mind prioritization.
• Represents the team in check-in meetings and provides status updates.

Skills You'll Bring

• Computer Science degree is a plus, but not required
• 5+ years of software experience
• Technically strong, with a history of successfully shipping products into production
• Experience coaching and mentoring team members
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, from engineering to product to stakeholder teams
• Core understanding of web applications, including overall front end architecture and APIs concepts, as well as vanilla JavaScript
• Ability to break down a request into actionable tasks
• Familiarity with the technologies the team uses (JavaScript, React, AWS Amplify)

What We Offer

At GumGum, competitive base pay is a part of a total rewards package which also includes benefits, an emphasis on recognition, development, and wellness. The reasonable estimated base pay range for this role is from $186,000 - $215,000 annually.  The actual amount may be higher or lower. Individual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, work location, and labor market conditions.

The total rewards package offered also includes an employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan, and depending on the role, a stock incentive program. Your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process. Learn more about our U.S. benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits.

The Data Scientist I supports statistical analyses of large datasets, the development and deployment of Machine Learning (ML), multimodal Deep Learning (DL), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that improve the relevance and value of ads across our Ad Exchange, Contextual Platform, and Attention Measurement Platform. This role focuses on applying strong analytical foundations, building and evaluating ML and DL models, leveraging general AI concepts and techniques, while also partnering closely with the Engineering, Product, and Data Science team to improve ad-serving performance, operational decision-making and lead development of new AI products that best serve the business. 

The ideal candidate is curious, data-driven, and eager to develop a strong understanding of the advertising domain and the systems that power large-scale decision-making. You will work with large datasets, contribute to production AI systems, and gain hands-on experience across the ML lifecycle — from exploration to monitoring.

Note: GumGum fosters a flexible work environment, offering GumGummers the ability to work either in-office or remotely/from home. For this position, in-person/office collaboration is required 2 days per week, supporting a balanced approach to flexibility and team engagement.

What You'll Achieve

• Support the translation of business and product requirements into data-driven analyses and ML solutions
• Partner with Engineering team members and senior Data Scientists to develop, test, and deploy ML and DL models
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to inform feature development and modeling approaches
• Build, run, and maintain regular pipelines to analyze production data, generate KPIs, and prepare automatic retraining of existing models
• Query, clean, and structure large datasets using SQL, Spark, and cloud data platforms
• Train, evaluate, and iterate on traditional ML models and multimodal deep learning models under guidance from senior team members
• Design and maintain Looker dashboards and other Business Intelligence (BI) tools to track Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for key stakeholders
• Develop and deploy agentic pipelines and other LLM-powered applications, including prompt engineering, tool use, and evaluation of model outputs
• Contribute to existing Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) workflows for model training, deployment, and monitoring
• Document analyses, models, and broader learning to support knowledge sharing across the team and non-technical audiences
• Continuously expand on statistical and AI foundations while learning new AI/ML techniques, tools, and advertising-domain concepts

Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, CS, Math, Physics, or Economics).
• 1–2+ years in a data-driven role such as Analytics, Data Science, or ML Engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and experience applying ML/DL methods using libraries like scikit-learn, PyTorch, HuggingFace, or OpenCV.
• Dependable SQL skills and experience designing pipelines or DAGs using tools like Airflow or Astronomer.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS/GCP, Databricks, Snowflake) and large-scale query tools like Spark or Snowpark.
• Strong grasp of A/B testing, experimental design, and statistical concepts (regression, classification, optimization).
• Experience with LLM prompting and interest in frameworks like RAG, LangChain, or agentic systems.
• Ability to design dashboards for diverse audiences and collaborate effectively with Product and Engineering teams.

What We Offer

At GumGum, competitive base pay is a part of a total rewards package, which also includes benefits, an emphasis on recognition, development, and wellness. The reasonable estimated base pay range for this role is from $128,000-$130,000 annually. The actual amount may be higher or lower. Individual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant qualifications, work location, and labor market conditions.

The total rewards package offered also includes an employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan, and, depending on the role, participation in a bonus, commission, or stock incentive program. Your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process. Learn more about our U.S. benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits.