Vice President, Identity Engineering

Zeta Global

Lead the Identity & Data Platform at Zeta Global, managing a large engineering team and defining strategic direction. Drive innovative identity solutions leveraging advanced AI and data enrichment.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $400,000 - $500,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftBigQueryDynamoDBSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and define the strategic roadmap for the Identity & Data Layer, covering the full lifecycle (ingest → resolve → enrich → activate), with clear accountability for scalability, accuracy, latency, and reliability SLAs.
Lead and inspire a team of ~50 engineers,
Own the evolution of identity resolution and identity graph systems, advancing deterministic and probabilistic matching, cross-channel identity, and real-time enrichment as core competitive capabilities.
Drive the evolution
Collaborate cross-functionally with AI, marketing, and product teams to ensure seamless integration of identity services across Zeta’s platform.
Establish the data layer as the context engine for Zeta’s AI-native platform, enabling real-time features, embeddings, and data access for models, agents, and downstream applications.
Benchmark against industry leaders and innovate ahead of the market in identity solutions.
Ensure compliance with privacy and data governance standards (e.g., CCPA, GDPR).
Recruit, mentor, and develop top talent, while creating a strong succession plan for critical roles.
Partner with executive leadership on strategy, investment, and prioritization, aligning platform evolution with business outcomes and long-term scalability.
Collaborate with DevEx and AI Enablement teams to drive adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the data layer, improving developer productivity, code quality, and system evolution velocity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of engineering leadership, including significant time leading large-scale identity or data platforms.
Deep domain expertise in identity resolution, identity graphs, and data enrichment—preferably with experience from a top competitor or parallel industry.
Understand applicability, pros & cons & effectiveness of data engineering design patterns & concepts such as Data Lakehouse, Data Table Format, Zero-Copy Data Sharing, Cleanroom, Real-Time vs Batch Data Processing, High throughput distributed system APIs
Possess experience working on data technologies equivalent to:
Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
Iceberg, Hudi, Delta
EMR, Airflow, Spark
Aerospike, Scylla, DynamoDB
Proven experience managing 50+ person organizations, including directors and senior engineering managers.
Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance, including global standards such as GDPR and CCPA.
Track record of innovation and driving measurable outcomes, including AI-driven or data-driven product capabilities.
Exceptional communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited PTO
Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
Employee Equity
Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

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Hard Skills & Tools

identity resolutionidentity graphsdata enrichmentdata engineering design patternsData LakehouseData Table FormatZero-Copy Data SharingCleanroomreal-time data processingbatch data processing

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic planninginnovationteam managementsuccession planningcross-functional collaborationinspiration