What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, AI & Software Engineering position at PMG?
PMG’s Alli is a cloud-based suite of AI-powered tools for digital marketers. Last year, Alli enabled ad delivery to over 1 billion consumers in 80 countries for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including Apple, Nike, and McDonald’s.
Established in Fort Worth in 2010, PMG was profitable from day one and has grown with no outside investment to 700 employees currently working in 7 offices and remotely. The company is defined by its people-centered culture and has led AdAge’s annual Best Places to Work list for 8 years in a row.
As PMG is transitioning into an AI-first organization, we are looking for engineers who want to build the impossible. Our team doesn't just dream up futuristic platforms - we ship them!
Technology we use:
- AWS and GCP;
- Docker and Terraform;
- PHP, JavaScript, Go, Python and React;
- Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres, Mongo, Redis;
- OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex, LangChain;
- GitHub, Jira, Confluence;
- SCRUM-inspired agile development process.
We are looking for engineering leaders who have:
- Passion for solving challenging problems by delivering clean and performant code;
- Profound understanding of distributed system design and data intensive applications;
- Familiarity with the current GenAI tech landscape and trends;
- SOLID software engineering expertise (OOA/OOD, TDD, CI/CD);
- Strong adherence to agile values;
- Team-first, proactive approach to work and great communication skills.
- Planning and guiding towards a multi-year product roadmap
- Ability to continually motivate and inspire team productivity and success
Responsibilities:
- Leading 2-4 distributed teams; each team consists of a manager and 3-9 engineers, each team is responsible for 1-3 products within the Alli suite;
- Providing technical oversight to the teams, leading (and/or participating in) the process of making key architectural decisions;
- Making sure the teams deliver required functionality on time based on the current product roadmap; partnering with the Product team to evolve the roadmap based on customer feedback and team capacity; coordinating with the key internal and external stakeholders; maintaining a balance between developing new features and addressing technical debt;
- Assessing the current and upcoming needs for the product development, acting to staff teams with qualified engineers by both upskilling current ICs and hiring new ones, making sure team bandwidth and velocity keeps increasing over time while constantly raising the quality bar.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior engineering IC role;
- At least 3 years of experience in an engineering manager role while still being hands on;
- Experience in a manager-of-managers role;
- Deep expertise with modern technologies for building highly scalable data-intensive applications, good familiarity with at least 60% of our tech stack;
- Good understanding of MarTech domain
- Based in Dallas (or willing to relocate)
Additional Preferred Requirements:
- 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
- Master’s Degree
Additional Perks and Benefits of Working at PMG:
- A competitive compensation package (base salary, bonus, 401k, etc.);
- Leading benefits package (including full medical/dental/vision coverage);
- Amazing offices (with the best baristas in the tech industry);
- Support for conferences, courses, and certifications;
- Exciting projects with partners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft;
- And more…
