Senior Manager, AI & Software Engineering

Dallas

Job Description Job Description PMG is a digital company that helps marketers connect people with their brand. Focused on people and grounded in data, our award-winning culture fosters meaningful careers. Partnering with the most iconic brands in the world, we put people at the center of everything we do to deliver value, innovation, and business transformation.

Alli is PMG's cloud-based platform of applications built for digital marketers. Its functionality ranges from fundamental level ad campaign management to an AI-powered creative insight explorer. In 2022, Alli enabled ad delivery to over 0.5 billion consumers in 80+ countries for some of the world's most iconic brands, including Apple, Nike, and McDonald's.

We are looking for a talented individual to fill our Senior Manager, AI & Software Engineering role focused in our Data pillar of the Alli platform. This team builds and manages complex data pipelines with partners like Google, Meta, Amazon and other reporting platforms and large data sharing APIs. It uses automation to supply business critical data, with a high level of accuracy, to the other pillars of the Alli platform and the entire company. The team achieves this by working regularly and directly with technologies like Terraform, Docker, BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, React, Kinesis, REST and SOAP APIs, etc.

We are looking for Engineering Managers who have lead teams like this and have experience demonstrating the following skills and traits:

A profound understanding of distributed system design principles

SOLID software engineering expertise (OOA/OOD, TDD, CI/CD)

Strong adherence to and experience implementing agile values

Planning and guiding towards a multi-year product roadmap

Ability to continually motivate and inspire team productivity and success

Team-first, proactive approach to work and excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Implement new and effectively manage numerous data integrations via API and other common methods

Participate in formulation and implementation of the Data pillar roadmap

Work with the product management team to create industry transformative products

Build complex & highly scalable technical solutions

Drive cutting edge initiatives with a high industry-wide impact

Draft architectural decisions and ensure reliable and state-of-the-art products and systems

Build with a world-class team of engineers, collaborate with designers and product managers to ship new components and features

Contribute to code reviews; provide critical feedback to fellow developers and mentor junior engineers

Provide career development guidance and coaching to team members

Work in a team with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes

Work within a dynamic & international environment with an agile working culture using methodologies such as SCRUM

Skills & Experience

6+ years experience working in a software engineering development team, working throughout the SDLC of a product

4+ years managing a team of 5-10 highly skilled developers in a SCRUM style, agile development process

3+ years of experience working with the MERN stack or transferable skill set

3+ years of experience within an AWS cloud environment, utilizing Redshift or Postgres or similar technologies

Experience in building and managing teams building systems using automated testing, code review, clean code principles, and refactoring strategies

Solid knowledge of building and using RESTful APIs

Preferred, but not required

Hands-on experience, or working interest in GenAI, Large Language Models, Big Data, OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, etc.

Interest or familiarity working in the Digital Marketing industry

Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Puppet

Experience with Docker or Kubernetes and can safely maneuver/setup configurations in those environments

Experienced with DDD

Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Successful Candidates will be Offered

A competitive salary

Leading benefits package (including full medical/dental/vision coverage)

Amazing offices (with the best baristas in the tech industry)

Support for attending conferences, courses, and certifications

Projects working directly with partners like Google, Meta, and Amazon

About PMG :

PMG is a global independent digital company that seeks to inspire people and brands that anything is possible. Driven by shared success, PMG uses business strategy and transformation, creative, media, and insights, as well as its proprietary marketing intelligence platform Alli, to deliver Digital Made for Humans™. Our team is made up of over 500 employees globally, and our work for brands like Apple, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, CKE Restaurants, Experian, Intuit, Kohler, Nike, Sephora, Therabody, and Whole Foods runs across 85+ countries and has received top industry recognition from Cannes Lions to Adweek Media Plan of the Year.

Named to Ad Age's 2023 A-List, MediaPost's 2023 Independent Agency of the Year, and Adweek's 2021 Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year, PMG has grown through commitments to continuous improvement, business integrity, and cultivating dynamic relationships. We are proud to be named among Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators and Fortune's Best Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing (ranked #1), and to be the only company named to Ad Age's Best Places to Work nine years in a row.

Being part of PMG means being part of a company culture that's unmatched in digital. We're willing to work hard to serve our clients and deliver value, results, and innovation -- which often requires true grit and remaining agile. We believe in taking care of ourselves and each other so that we continuously improve in every way.

We'd love to get to know you and share more about why we love PMG and the work we do.

In alignment with our core values to be inclusive and always change for the better, PMG is committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe we only change for the better by bringing different people to our company. PMG recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion and our action plan for change here.