Senior Director, Connected TV Engineering

Remote-first with bi-monthly trips to the West Coast

We are looking for a Senior Director of Connected TV Engineering to own the technical vision and delivery of CTV applications across every screen in the living room

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You'll be leading the teams building experiences on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV/Google TV, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Vizio, and gaming consoles - platforms that serve millions of concurrent viewers, including high-stakes live events where there's zero room for buffering wheels or crashed app

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What You'll

• OwnEngineering leadership at scale. Direct multiple CTV engineering teams (engineers, leads, and managers) across native and cross-platform stacks. You set the technical direction; your teams ship
• it.Platform strategy. Make the big architectural calls - native vs. shared codebase, framework choices, build-vs-buy on players and SDKs - and defend them with da
• ta.Performance and reliability. Own app startup times, playback quality, memory footprints on constrained devices, and uptime during peak concurrency events. When the big live event happens, your apps ho
• ld.Partner relationships. Be the senior technical voice with platform partners (Roku, Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung, LG) on certification, new device capabilities, and roadmap alignme
• nt.Talent and culture. Hire, develop, and retain top-tier CTV engineers in a market where that talent is genuinely hard to find. Build a team people want to stay
• on.Cross-functional execution. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Product, Design, Ad Tech, and Video Platform teams to deliver features that move engagement and revenue metri

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What You B

• ring12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering teams - ideally including director-level ownership of consumer video applicat
• ionsDeep, hands-on-earned knowledge of the CTV device landscape: Roku (BrightScript/SceneGraph), Fire TV, tvOS, Android TV, Tizen, webOS, and the quirks of
• eachReal experience with video playback tech - HLS/DASH, DRM (Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay), player frameworks, low-latency streaming, and server-side ad inser
• tionA track record of shipping and scaling apps that serve large audiences, including live sports or event-driven traffic sp
• ikesStrong opinions (loosely held) on cross-platform frameworks vs. native development for the 10-foot experi
• enceThe ability to go deep with engineers in an architecture review and then walk into a boardroom and explain the roadmap in plain Eng
• lishExperience managing managers and building org structures that s

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• HaveExperience with FAST channels, ad-supported tiers, or hybrid monetization m
• odelsFamiliarity with client-side and server-side ad insertion trade-offs at
• scaleBackground in broadcast-to-streaming transitions or major live event del
• iveryPrior work with app certification processes across multiple device par

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