Director of Engineering, Research & Insights at Applecart

Applecart is the leading technology company creating a new category of “Decision Maker Marketing”. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders that matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business critical decision makers and those they trust —  from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available or fully permissioned data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those that matter most to them. 

We are hiring a Director of Engineering, Research and Insights in our New York City office.

About the Role:

You will be responsible for continuously optimizing Applecart’s core targeting capabilities. You will help start and lead a new hybrid-remote team of software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value. Your team will create and maintain integrations with various external APIs, large batch data processing pipelines and entity resolution algorithms. At the onset, your responsibilities are primarily focused on hands-on software development. You will report to our VP of Engineering.

Experiences and Capabilities:

• You have 10+ years of professional software development experience, including back-end and data engineering
• You have technical leadership experience, specifically in agile environments
• You are a natural collaborator, adept at leading brainstorms, whiteboard sessions as well as pair programming
• You have designed ETL pipelines using distributed computing frameworks like Spark
• You have strong computer science fundamentals, as well as solid command of operational best practices (e.g. “clean” code, test-driven development, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)
• You have extensive experience hiring and managing software engineers
• You are a dedicated coach who leads with empathy and thrives by helping people perform and grow
• You are an excellent technical and cross-functional communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

• Your language of choice is Python
• AWS is your cloud platform of choice
• You have DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience

This is a hybrid role. Work from anywhere on Monday and Friday and in Applecarts New York City office Tuesday through Thursday.

Compensation:

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $200,000-$250,000, based on the candidates experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of a significant amount of compensation that candidates will receive in the form of cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

A few facts about us:

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier communications and public affairs firms like Teneo, Sard Verbinnen, and Weber Shandwick.
• Applecart is growing quickly — 2023 was the fourth year in a row that we doubled the previous year’s bookings. 
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, an early sales leader at Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Our investors include global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and Owl Capital Managing Partner Jennifer Fonstad serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.