Senior Engineering Manager: Ads Platforms & AI Apps Monetization

Moloco · Menlo Park, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

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Engineering Mgmt Seattle - Office Posted May 20, 2026 260,000 – 325,000 USD

About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the Role

This leader will play a critical role in shaping how publishers and advertisers connect to Moloco and how signal flows through our platform at scale. You will own a foundational part of our Ads business, spanning SDKs, measurement, customer solutions, and ingestion infrastructure, while also helping extend Moloco into the next generation of AI-native monetization surfaces.

This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact platform organization and influence how Moloco serves emerging publisher needs in a fast-evolving ecosystem. You will work across engineering, product, and business teams to build durable platform capabilities, improve technical excellence, and help define the future of monetization for AI-native applications.

The Ads Platform organization sits at the intersection of publisher integrations, data measurement, customer solutions, and ingestion infrastructure, forming the connective tissue between Moloco’s publisher ecosystem and our high-scale backend systems. As Director, Ads Platforms and AI Apps, you will lead four deeply interconnected engineering teams - Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure - and be accountable for the quality, reliability, scalability, and strategic direction of the systems they own. In addition to leading this core platform area, you will help shape Moloco’s approach to AI-native publisher monetization. This includes building platform capabilities that help AI app publishers integrate with Moloco, unlock high-quality monetization, and support new signal and format requirements for conversational and context-rich environments.

We are looking for a leader who can combine strong engineering management with platform thinking, technical depth, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving spaces.

Responsibilities

Lead the Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure engineering teams and define technical direction, priorities, and operating cadence.
Evolve the Ads Platform organization beyond feature delivery, with stronger focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and long-term technical health.
Partner closely with peer engineering leaders to align client-side, platform, and backend architecture across Moloco’s ads ecosystem.
Improve engineering quality across architecture, testing, release management, observability, incident response, and operational rigor.
Coach and grow engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders through strong feedback, mentorship, and clear expectations.
Help attract and hire exceptional talent by contributing to org design, role definition, and candidate assessment.
Work cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Solutions Engineering, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps and execution plans.
Help define and build platform capabilities that support AI-native publisher monetization, including new forms of signal handling, integration, and ad experience requirements.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand publisher needs and translate them into scalable platform investments.
Drive cross-team alignment on ambiguous, multi-stakeholder technical problems and make pragmatic tradeoffs in service of long-term business impact.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience in one or more relevant areas such as SDK, backend systems, infrastructure, supply or mediation, creative platforms, or adjacent ad tech domains.
3+ years of engineering leadership experience as an engineering manager, tech lead manager, or equivalent.
Experience in one or more of the following domains: publisher SDK or mediation, data measurement or analytics pipelines, ingestion or event-streaming infrastructure, or technical customer solutions / solutions engineering with demonstrated ability to lead effectively across areas outside your direct specialty.
Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and partner teams.
Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and translate broad business or product needs into clear engineering direction.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading or partnering closely with Ads measurement, attribution, or data pipeline engineering teams.
Familiarity with event ingestion systems, streaming infrastructure, or data reliability at scale.
Track record of leading customer-facing or solutions engineering teams alongside core product engineering.
Familiarity with both client-side and server-side considerations in ads or monetization platforms.
Experience improving reliability, observability, scalability, and release quality for production systems.
Experience working in high-scale ad tech, monetization, or platform environments.
Experience mentoring senior engineers or tech leads and helping organizations raise their technical bar.
Experience partnering across engineering, product, and business teams in fast-moving environments.

Compensation & Benefits

U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits and perks. U.S.-based employees also receive up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar year and one Thrive Day off per quarter. Additionally, all employees have Flexible Time Off (FTO).

The successful candidate may be eligible for a bonus and equity awards. Eligibility and amounts are determined by performance and the terms of the applicable plans.

The location for this role is listed above. For base pay range purposes, location-based compensation is grouped into the following regions. Your region is determined by your assigned work location.

Region A: Menlo Park Office, New York Office, SF Bay Area, New York Metro Area
Region B: Seattle Office, Seattle, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Washington DC Metro Area, Miami
Region C: All other U.S. locations

Salary Ranges:

Region A:

$260,000—$325,000 USD

Region B:

$247,200—$309,000 USD

Region C:

$234,000—$292,500 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values:

Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

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Equal Opportunity:

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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