Since 2014, Acast has been creating the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, building the technology which connects podcast creators, advertisers and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 135,000 podcasts, 2,700 advertisers and c.1 billion quarterly listens.
Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen - across any podcasting app or other listening platform. The company operates worldwide and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Acast is listed on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In just a few seconds, Acast’s Dynamic Ad Insertion platform dynamically sources, selects, and splices ads into uniquely personalised streams for millions of listens every day, all while optimising towards the best possible return for the creator, advertiser, and of course the listener themselves.
As the Engineering Manager for Ad Delivery, you’ll be working on Acast’s own ad server, integrations with third-party ad servers, and our rapidly evolving yield optimisation platform to make the most of every listen and campaign. To do this you’ll also be tapping into Acast’s audience indexing and contextual targeting capabilities, owning and managing our monetisation management tools, and providing core business data sources to teams around Acast to enable payouts, insights, and metrics.
Your responsibilities are to ensure sustainable successful delivery of your team’s products, through your own direct contribution, team leadership, and management of team processes and planning. Through a tight collaboration with your partner Product Manager, you will be the engine of progress towards the goal of matching as much monetisable inventory with the best possible ads in the most valuable manner possible.

WHAT YOU´LL DO

You’ll directly manage a highly skilled and experienced team of software and data engineers, distributed across Europe. You’ll be responsible for their individual growth and performance on an ongoing basis, providing frequent feedback, solid development plans, and insightful reviews. You’ll work with your team every day, and sync with them individually every week, building a close relationship based on trust to help everyone do their best work.
You’ll elevate your team to take ownership and exercise autonomy judiciously in order to best deliver against the team’s objectives, but also be ready to step forward and lead directly when needed. You will organise the team’s work and staffing to match capacity against demand, ensuring its long-term health and effectiveness. You’ll think creatively when approaching ambitious goals across a wide range of product capabilities so that progress is made in a sustainable, lean manner, nurturing just enough process to do the job well.
Working as a member of the team, you will directly contribute to the development of the team’s tech stack, in whichever form best suits your skillset and needs of the day. Whether you’re writing code, testing features, handling operations, or supporting colleagues from around the business, we believe engineering leaders are most effective when they’re hands-on day-to-day. You’ll contribute to the design of systems and architectures, and work alongside other engineering leads and senior engineering staff to produce solutions spanning the entire Acast platform.
Stellar results require close, productive collaboration between people and teams, which you will take a front seat in facilitating. You’ll readily develop relationships across teams, knowing the best people to include at the right moment. You’ll foster an open and productive dialogue between your team and their stakeholders, inside and out, ensuring that we deliver the right thing, on time, on a stable and scalable foundation.