About Wpromote

Here at Wpromote, one of the nation’s leading digital marketing firms, we invite you to “Think Like A Challenger” and push our clients to take on the 800 lb. gorillas of their industries. Our crew of 400+ digital marketeers breathes in marketing and exhales ROI, and we challenge our clients and ourselves each and every day to surpass yesterday’s expectations! Our award-winning campaigns have helped hundreds of companies from startups to Fortune 500 brands thrive. If you’ve heard of Forever 21, Verizon, Papyrus, TOMS, Wienerschnitzel, or Zenni Optical, you’ve heard of our clients. And we want you to join us in making our clients even better.

The Perks 

If you’re not already convinced, our amazing perks have made us one of the Best Places to Work in the US two years running according to Ad Age, and one of Los Angeles’ best places to work 5 years in a row. Here’s why:

• 80% coverage of basic medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Traditional 401k and/or Roth 401k matching.
• Quarterly team social events, birthday celebrations, chili cook offs, holiday half days and summer half day Fridays, and more.
• Yoga sessions two times a week to help you de-stress and recharge. Stretch it off; it’s the new norm.
• Unlimited PTO and an innovative Work From Anywhere policy that gives our employees freedom to stretch their wings - and catch the cable guy.
• Coffee, tea, juice, and cereal. A vending machine that has every snack imaginable.
• Fresh fruit Mondays, Veggie Tuesdays, Yogurt Wednesdays, and Bagel Fridays!
• Dog friendly office. Seriously.
• Beautifully designed and modern office: standing desks, outdoor seating, courtyard, and breakout rooms.
• Break time: ping-pong, shuffleboard, and Bocce ball. Any time is break time.
• But wait, we have more! We have electric full body massage chairs so you can work while getting a massage.

The Role

Wpromote is one of the world’s leading digital marketing firms, helping Challenger Brands profitably grow, scale and achieve amazing results. As part of our quest to up-end the marketing world, we are looking for a rockstar head of engineering and technology to spearhead our efforts to build a first-in-our-industry set of tools to make our team of 400+ marketers super-human. From paid search experts building million-keyword campaigns to keyword analysis tools used by our Content Marketing wizzes to our data scientists ingesting years of purchase data to build customer lifetime value models, we spend a lot of time doing repetitive tasks. If we can turn 10 hours of work into 1 hour through smart tools and automation, we can reinvest those 9 hours in critical thinking, hypothesis testing and analysis, and ultimately performance for our clients. If we do this across our hundreds of marketers and thousands of tasks, we can fundamentally change the digital marketing business.

If you are hands-on engineering leader with a business mind and digital marketing chops, we want to get to know you, share our vision and accomplish amazing things together.

Awards? We have them in spades; Wpromote was named Ad Age’s #3 best place to work not just because of our long list of perks below:

• 100% employee coverage of medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Traditional 401k and/or Roth 401k matching.
• Unlimited PTO and a flexible Work From Anywhere policy
• Quarterly team social events, birthday celebrations, chili cook offs, holiday half days and summer half day Fridays, and more.
• Yoga sessions once a week and fitness studio partnerships
• Coffee, tea, juice, and cereal. A vending machine that has every snack imaginable.
• Dog friendly office
• Standing desks, full body massage chairs, ping-pong, shuffleboard, and bocce ball
• But equally, because “We make Mondays suck less.” We have built a fun, supportive, and engaging culture that continues to evolve through collaboration, drive, transparency, and respect.

The Head of Technology/CTO, as a member of the executive leadership team, is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision, developing a roadmap and leading all aspects of the company‘s technology development. The Head of Technology/CTO plays an integral role in setting the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth, positioning the company’s service offering as a leader in the digital marketing space. At Wpromote, we are excited to embrace the future of digital marketing, and with it the knowledge that we will require intelligent automation solutions across all aspects of digital marketing in order to compete in a hyper-competitive and crowded marketplace.

As a Digital Marketing agency, we are focused on being on the leading edge of technology & innovation that can be driven by new solutions. This is not a client-facing role, but the ideal candidate will need to be able to effectively articulate and understand the needs of the organization in servicing our clients. Working side by side with the VP of Paid Media & VP of Digital Intelligence, this individual will be empowered to determine our future roadmap for solving challenges and growth of the engineering team respectively.

Responsibilities

• Defines, articulates, and executes engineering, product & solution development strategy.
• Leads a team of Engineers working in parallel with our Digital Intelligence & Data Science leadership.
• Oversees strategy & output for the engineering team
• Guides organization-wide technology decisions related to reporting, management and automation of digital marketing functions and proactively develop solutions that solve for future challenges facing our clients, as well as internal infrastructure solutions designed to drive efficiency & enable teams to be more productive
• Provides thought leadership on technology across the organization and within the digital marketing industry, positioning Wpromote as a leader in technological innovation.
• Guides Engineering product development roadmap, including the development of:
• Reporting APIs (Bixby API): Ongoing maintenance, development & support for omni-channel reporting from Paid Media platforms (leveraging Funnel.io & BigQuery) UI (including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Campaign Manager, Facebook Ads, Facebook Analytics, Bing Ads, Pinterest Ads, Criteo).
• Platform Management APIs (Bixby API): Development of platform management & optimization solutions via Paid Media Management APIs (including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Campaign Manager, Facebook Ads, Facebook Analytics, Bing Ads, Pinterest Ads, Criteo).
• Managed Data Warehousing: Structured data storage, security & joining with multiple, disparate data sources provided as a managed service to clients.
• Client Relationship Management Portal (Bixby CRM): A centralized database of all client information integrated with data from the Wpromote Data Warehouse (Reporting) and 3rd party data sources (including but not limited to BuiltWith, Demandbase, Axicom, Epsilon)
• Standardizes process for vetting new technologies, identifying decision makers and measuring utilization and effectiveness of selected technologies. Understanding & outlining the use cases for building vs. buying new technologies to solve for business challenges.
• Supports internal marketing team in continued development and optimization of the company website
• Provides ongoing education around technical solutions within the Marketing Technology space to leadership and provide analysis of various organizations technical offerings

Requirements

Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering , business or related field
• 5+ years of people management experience, leading technical professionals to meet the strategic business needs of the company
• 12+ years of professional development experience
• Product Lifecycle Management experience 
• Possess a strong knowledge of digital marketing technology & measurement solutions
• A Collaborative and proactive approach to problem solving; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical initiatives
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution, consensus building skills
• Excellent creative hands on problem solver; ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem
• Full stack developer with a passion for building & growing engineering teams
• Capable to architect a scalable, secure technology stack
• Ability to communicate technical solutions
• Proven track record of effectively managing budgets

Nice to Have

• Experience with establishing SDLC with application security frameworks - i.e. OWASP
• Eye for design
• Experience architecting & developing for CRM platforms
• Familiarity with Agile project management
• Working knowledge of Salesforce and Netsuite
• Experience working with AWS (Lamda, EC2, S3, RDS, Auto Scaling ) and G Suite
• Bonus - knowledge and experience integrating with Asana, and/or PandaDoc
• Experience working with analytics platforms (especially related to management & reporting APIs)
• Direct experience developing a primary online advertising platform (Google, Facebook, Bing, Instagram, Snap, etc.) or third-party software that leverages the API for these platforms to improve performance
• Experience working PHP, Python, MongoDB, React, Angular
• Knowledge of trends impacting the digital marketing industry, from privacy concerns (e.g. ITP 2.1) to regulations (e.g. CCPA, GDPR) that may impact the work of the engineering team