Job Overview
Lead the Technology organization and report directly to the CEO. You will build, scale, and operate the technical foundation of the company across Vision AI, Audience AI, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability, DevOps/MLOps, Fleet Management, Edge‑and‑Cloud APIs, Edge infrastructure, and Hardware & Network.
Your mission is to continuously evolve Advertima’s technology to support scalable, reliable, secure, and globally distributed enterprise deployments.
Own the Technical Strategy
Define and own Advertima’s technology strategy together with the co‑founding CEO, CPO, and technical leadership team. This includes architectural direction, platform scalability, technical priorities, build‑versus‑buy decisions, engineering standards, reliability principles, and long‑term technology bets.
Ensure the company’s strategic ambition is technically possible, scalable, and defensible.
Build the Operating System of Physical Retail Media
Advertima is building a real‑world infrastructure layer that connects physical retail environments with the digital advertising ecosystem. To do so, your organization must master the full technical chain:
* capturing physical shoppers through Computer Vision
* transforming physical‑world signals into privacy‑safe audience intelligence
* running AI inference on edge devices
* managing distributed hardware fleets
* exposing reliable cloud APIs
* integrating with CMS, SSP, DSP, and Retail Media platforms
* ensuring uptime, observability, security, and scalability across global deployments
Scale Engineering from Deep‑Tech to Enterprise Infrastructure
You will lead the transition from a deep‑tech company with strong innovation capabilities into a scalable technology organization that can support global enterprise customers.
Your focus will be on engineering quality, architectural clarity, delivery discipline, system reliability, operational scalability, technical accountability, and team performance.
Create the structures, standards, and leadership culture required to scale without losing speed.
Lead and Upgrade the Technical Leadership Team
Lead and develop the heads of Vision AI, Audience AI, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, and related technical functions.
Attract senior technical talent, raise the bar across the organization, and ensure our strongest engineers can do the best work of their careers.
Own Architecture, Reliability, and Delivery
Take ownership of system architecture, edge and cloud scalability, reliability and uptime, deployment processes, observability, security, privacy‑by‑design execution, and technical delivery.
Ensure technology works reliably in thousands of stores across countries, retailers, hardware setups, network conditions, CMS environments, and AdTech integrations.
Partner Across Product, Commercial, and Delivery
Work closely with Product, Customer Success, Delivery, Market Development, and Commercial teams to connect technology with market needs, commercial priorities, and deployment complexity.
Your profile – Educational Background
Advance degree (MSc or PhD preferred) in Computer Vision, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related technical fields.
Your profile – Experience
* 10+ years of senior technology leadership experience
* Proven experience as CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or similar senior role
* Experience scaling deep‑tech, AI, edge, IoT, infrastructure, or enterprise software platforms
* Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations
* Experience moving complex technology from innovation into reliable global production
Your profile – Technical Depth
* AI/ML systems and infrastructure
* Computer Vision and Vision AI
* Edge AI and IoT deployments
* Cloud infrastructure
* Distributed systems
* Real‑time systems
* DevOps/MLOps
* Data pipelines
* APIs
* Security and privacy architecture
* Enterprise‑grade software engineering
Strong practical understanding of modern ML pipelines, distributed edge computing architectures, cloud infrastructure, IoT environments, low‑latency systems, and large‑scale AI deployment challenges.
Experience with systems‑level engineering and high‑performance programming languages such as Rust or C++, hardware‑aware optimization, and enterprise SaaS/API platforms is highly valuable.
Deep knowledge of technical trade‑offs and ability to make hard architectural decisions under real business constraints.
Your profile – Leadership
* build high‑performance engineering teams
* raise technical standards
* create accountability
* simplify complexity
* make decisions with incomplete information
* balance speed and quality
* challenge senior engineers constructively
* remove organizational bottlenecks
Lead through clarity, competence, and ownership.
Your profile – Strategic Thinking
Connect technical architecture with business model, customer value, scalability, defensibility, cost structure, operational risk, and long‑term category leadership.
Your profile – Execution Discipline
Ship reliably. Understand priorities, learning loops, and operational excellence.
Your profile – Communication
Explain complex technical topics clearly to engineers, executives, investors, customers, and partners. Represent Advertima in high‑stakes technical discussions with retailers, AdTech platforms, investors, and enterprise partners.
Your profile – Ideal Additional Experience
* Retail technology
* AdTech, Retail Media, SSP/DSP ecosystems
* Global enterprise rollouts
* Privacy‑by‑design systems
* Scaling teams from Series A/B into global expansion
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