
Head of Technology
Life Space Digital
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect and lead development of the company’s offline advertising platform, ensuring best-in-class scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Manage R&D initiatives to drive innovation, experimentation, and integration of cutting-edge technologies across the DOOH ecosystem.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and operations teams to integrate intelligence and automation into the platform.
- Guide the digitalization, intelligence, and precision transformation of offline advertising, co-creating a top-tier commercial monetization engine.
- Lead the optimization and continuous evolution of platform architecture to align with business growth and emerging market needs.
- Diagnose system bottlenecks, drive performance enhancements, and ensure continuous improvements in scalability, stability, and operational efficiency.
- Evaluate new technologies and market trends, recommending strategic adoption to maintain technical leadership and innovation edge.
- Build, mentor, and scale a world-class technology team, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and accountability.
- Define hiring standards, organizational structure, and team processes to ensure alignment with company objectives.
- Provide technical direction and professional development opportunities for engineers, emphasizing collaboration and agility.
- Champion best practices in engineering management, code quality, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of R&D or engineering experience with a strong focus on enterprise architecture and distributed system design.
- Deep understanding of large-scale system design, including caching, messaging, search mechanisms, and data pipelines.
- Proven experience in technical architecture governance and creating technical standards for complex systems.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining distributed systems at internet scale.
- Prior exposure to large-scale advertising platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong problem-solving abilities with proficiency in applying distributed technologies to optimize performance.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with cross-cultural collaboration experience.
- Fluency in both English and Chinese (Mandarin) is required for effective communication with global teams and stakeholders.
- High sense of ownership, accountability, and resilience in fast-paced environments.
- Analytical, structured, and independent thinker with a bias for action.
- Demonstrated success in building and leading technical teams or managing R&D groups; the ideal candidate demonstrates both strategic and hands-on leadership capabilities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
- Performance bonuses
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Hard skills
enterprise architecturedistributed system designlarge-scale system designcachingmessagingsearch mechanismsdata pipelinestechnical architecture governanceperformance optimizationadvertising platforms
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationteamworkcross-cultural collaborationownershipaccountabilityresilienceanalytical thinkingstructured thinkingindependent thinking
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Mathematicsrelated technical field