Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering

Index Exchange · New York, United States · 3 wk ago

HybridEngineering$160k–$200k/yrFull-time

About Index Exchange

Index Exchange is a globally trusted independent supply-side platform, powering intelligent decisioning that maximizes value for media owners. As a neutral, conflict-free exchange, we help media owners connect more effectively with the world’s leading brands, enabling marketers to achieve stronger performance while advancing efficiency, transparency, and quality across the programmatic ecosystem.

What We’re Looking For

You set a clear technical vision, empower your team, and drive impactful outcomes.
You lead with a growth mindset, use data to guide decisions, and represent your team effectively across the organization.
You bring deep knowledge of digital marketing and ad tech platforms.
You're confident in handling complex technical questions and stay curious about emerging technologies.
You foster a culture of feedback and growth, coaching team members and junior leaders.
You inspire high-quality customer consultation and support career development.
You thrive in fast-paced environments, guiding your team with clear goals and data-informed decisions to deliver strong technical and business results.
You take full responsibility for the solutions your team delivers, ensuring their quality, health, and continuous improvement.
You define success through measurable metrics and implement scalable processes, tools, and standards to improve team efficiency and customer outcomes.
You work cross-functionally with internal teams to drive strategy, launch new capabilities, and improve customer experience through shared knowledge and aligned execution.

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

You will oversee a team based in AMS who are looking after partners in the complete lifecycle of a Marketplace customer from technical validation pre-contract and supporting our sales team in technical pitches, including onboarding and integration project management, through to daily management, strategic planning, and continue to find opportunities to grow the client’s business with Index Exchange.
You will be present for your team consistently, providing coaching feedback and support for their career growth on a regular occurrence. Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and accountability. Support your team through yearly performance cycles. Develop junior members of the team, and create career plans for each of your team.
You will develop a deep technical understanding of Index’s product offerings to participate in experimentation, release, and development, and building of new features. Support your team in understanding how products are developed and the required levels of participation.
You will contribute to our strategic working groups by providing them with insight into opportunities to improve our current offerings. Work to create your own area of SME within the TAM organization.
You will serve as a consultant to strategic marketplace partners, not limited to QBRs, scoping calls, leading technical solutioning to address their business challenges, objectives, and identify opportunities. Support your team where needed and participating in tech scoping calls, leading client technical conversations, QBRs.
You will maintain knowledge of current industry trends, integration protocols, technical specs and updated and document best practices accordingly. Define playbooks for internal and external teams to execute on integrate and migrate new and existing partners to new product offerings. Ensure documentation both internal and external are maintained and updated.
You will work with our developers to build new tools to improve operational efficiency and troubleshooting. Perform operational tasks, performance monitoring, escalated troubleshooting, supporting customers to build on top of our APIs and utilize Salesforce to ensure tracking and all account information is consistently updated and maintained.
Regional travel to connect with team members and clients will be expected. An escalation point of contact for our internal teams for technical issues, product related questions, and implementation best practices.

Here's What You Need

7+ years' experience working within Ad-Tech at an Ad Exchange, SSP, DSP, or related media and entertainment content owners (Film Studios, Broadcast Networks, Cable Networks, Affiliate Media), OTT content distributors (SVOD, AVOD, FAST apps), and/or CTV OEMs, or adserver/Mediation partners (Publica, Spring Serve, Freewheel) in a Senior Technical role.
2-3+ years Pervious experience leading a team, or coaching.
Advanced knowledge of Open RTB specifications and requirements related to “deals,” DSP / Adserver methodologies across all channels / formats.
Ability to understand Rest API documentations and use related API services.
Expert Knowledge of SQL, JSON, and experience querying complex datasets to view trends, identify anomalies, and diagnose root causes.
Advanced problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
Ability to learn and scrape KAFKA topics and parse Audit log data.
Experience managing large projects with multiple cross functional stakeholders in different global regions.
Advanced presentation and communication skills.
Strong attention to detail and professional work ethic.
A proficiency for data-driven decision making.
Ability to work in both collaborative and independent settings while remaining responsible, enthusiastic, proactive, and self-motivated.
In depth knowledge of the online advertising industry including technology solutions, advertising/publisher and network business models, technical understanding of ad serving, media trading, RTB and/or related advertising technology.
Nice To Have: Buy side and campaign optimization knowledge, Familiarity with Kafka and other data streaming technologies, Familiarity with BI (Business Intelligence) tools like Looker and Redash, Highly motivated self-starter with a persuasive and success-driven personality, Automation and scripting experience.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $200,000. The total compensation package may vary depending on non-discriminatory factors such as job related knowledge, skills and experience.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
Competitive retirement matching plans
Equity packages
Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
Employee assistance program Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here
Equal employment opportunity

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us. If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.