Senior Engineering Manager: Ads Platforms & AI Apps Monetization

About Moloco: Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy. Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance. Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin. Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now! About the Role This leader will play a critical role in shaping how publishers and advertisers connect to Moloco and how signal flows through our platform at scale. You will own a foundational part of our Ads business, spanning SDKs, measurement, customer solutions, and ingestion infrastructure, while also helping extend Moloco into the next generation of AI-native monetization surfaces. This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact platform organization and influence how Moloco serves emerging publisher needs in a fast-evolving ecosystem. You will work across engineering, product, and business teams to build durable platform capabilities, improve technical excellence, and help define the future of monetization for AI-native applications. The Ads Platform organization sits at the intersection of publisher integrations, data measurement, customer solutions, and ingestion infrastructure, forming the connective tissue between Moloco’s publisher ecosystem and our high-scale backend systems. As Director, Ads Platforms and AI Apps, you will lead four deeply interconnected engineering teams - Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure - and be accountable for the quality, reliability, scalability, and strategic direction of the systems they own. In addition to leading this core platform area, you will help shape Moloco’s approach to AI-native publisher monetization. This includes building platform capabilities that help AI app publishers integrate with Moloco, unlock high-quality monetization, and support new signal and format requirements for conversational and context-rich environments. We are looking for a leader who can combine strong engineering management with platform thinking, technical depth, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving spaces. Responsibilities Lead the Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure engineering teams and define technical direction, priorities, and operating cadence. Evolve the Ads Platform organization beyond feature delivery, with stronger focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and long-term technical health. Partner closely with peer engineering leaders to align client-side, platform, and backend architecture across Moloco’s ads ecosystem. Improve engineering quality across architecture, testing, release management, observability, incident response, and operational rigor. Coach and grow engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders through strong feedback, mentorship, and clear expectations. Help attract and hire exceptional talent by contributing to org design, role definition, and candidate assessment. Work cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data,