Ibotta is seeking an Engineering Director, AI ML to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. As an Engineering Director focused on ML, AI and ML Ops, you will lead our team in building remarkably intelligent products. We are looking for someone who drives innovation while ensuring stability and quality of our systems and products. We’re looking for a senior leader eager to drive a strong engineering vision, partner strategically, and lead your engineering organization while fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture. The Engineering Director will also be looked to for having a positive impact across the broader engineering team.
This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.
What you will be doing:
Develop and deploy new strategies for building a highly engaged development organization that delivers predictably and in line with our emerging customer needs
Inspire and mobilize individuals and teams to achieve results
Ensure timely delivery of engineering solutions to meet business needs while providing a transparent view to progress
Communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team
Collaborate across functional areas to define and prioritize technical solutions that support business needs, efficiencies, and revenue
Partner with Product Management to provide a strong technical strategy that helps set and shape the product strategy
Partner with Product Management to set OKRs as well as prioritize, scope, and plan business outcomes
Foster an organization that understands how to balance technical debt vs. feature delivery
Coach and develop engineering managers, believing they are mission-critical
Support technical innovation and lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of our development standards to ensure that our technology enables a sustainable competitive advantage
Build an organization that is staffed for success, and has appropriately high technical competence that strives for excellence
Research new approaches and technologies to stay abreast of industry trends and standards
Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere
What we are looking for:
5+ years of engineering management experience
10+ years of experience in engineering: software, data, ML, AI
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required
Experience managing managers and leading an organization of multiple teams
Highly effective performance manager and comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and technical expertise
Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders including customers, senior management, and other business leaders
Experienced as a strategic contributor to roadmaps, technology platforms and greenfield products utilizing AI ML
Highly skilled at agile software development, methodologies, management, and DevOps cultures
Experienced with Databricks, MLflow, and similar AI/ML/ML Ops technologies
Experienced with LLMs and optimization and reliability of LLM pipelines
Has worked with cloud-based data architectures and platforms (AWS preferred), and distributed computing like k8s, Airflow
Experienced delivering reliable model deployment, observability, and monitoring from both a model and infrastructure perspective
Experienced with security, governance, cost, performance, and reliability strategies at scale
Motivated by a fast-paced and adapting environment
Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication
About Us:
Built and headquartered in Denver, Colo., Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a performance marketing platform that allows brands to deliver digital promotions to millions of consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). Ibotta’s network allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale.
Guided by our values and our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we build, the innovative people we work (and have fun) with, and the consumers we get to help. To date, we have credited consumers $1.5B.
Ibotta was named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row, after debuting on the list in 2018. The company has also been named as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post four consecutive times, made BuiltIn Colorado’s Best Places to Work list three years in a row and appeared on Inc.’s list of Best Workplaces in 2017 and 2023.
To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.
Additional Details:
This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, and 401k match.Denver office perks include paid parking, bagel Thursdays, snacks and occasional meals.
Base compensation range: $210,000 - $245,000. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base salary. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.
Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.
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