Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
Join our team as a Director of Business Systems, reporting directly to the Deputy CFO. In this pivotal role, you’ll connect strategy and communication across our General & Administrative (G&A) and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams, advancing growth and innovation in the dynamic Global AdTech industry.
This role is in charge of overall systems architecture and governance, including data architecture and Master Data Management (MDM) strategy, while maintaining compliance and performance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Design and oversee the enterprise-wide systems roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce governance standards and policies to maintain system & data integrity, system security, and system performance including defining data domains and data domain ownership
- Collaboration: Work collaboratively with IT teams and other key business contacts to clearly understand the business needs and technical requirements. Assist in advancing architecture projects and initiatives.
- Systems Optimization:Drive business process improvements and lead integrated system design, ensuring scalable and proficient operations.
- Change Management: Develop strategies that maximize the impact of new technology deployments through effective adoption and user participation.
- Team Management: Manage business solutions teams, service providers, and architects to deliver innovative, end-to-end technology solutions.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including experience in technology architecture, design and planning across a variety of technology stacks (including security, applications, database, infrastructure, integration, and cloud)
- 5-7 years of leadership experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related fields (Master’s or MBA preferred).
- Proven experience of managing complex information technology platforms and integrations, and leading software engineering teams
- Expertise in aligning emerging technologies with business strategies and leading complex system integrations.
- Solid knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, APIs, and microservices, with experience in cloud and on-premise ecosystems.
- Proven ability to gather and translate business process requests into clear technical requirements, particularly in Finance, Sales, Marketing, and HR.
- Exemplary communication skills, comfortable switching from a detailed technical lens, to higher level business-centric dialogue.
Why Join Us?
Shape the future of business systems in a dynamic industry, leveraging cutting-edge technology to influence enterprise strategy and performance. If you're a visionary leader with an affinity for innovation, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.
Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, PA, OR, TX, UT, and WA.
We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.
For this role, there will be travel to the Redwood City Hub in California once every 2 or 3 weeks.
Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate's location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $190,000 - $230,000 plus bonus
- Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $175,000 - $215,000 plus bonus
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $165,000 - $200,000 plus bonus
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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.
Liftoff's Compensation Strategy
Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
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Our US Headquarters is located in vibrant downtown Redwood City, conveniently located within walking distance from the CalTrain station & a wide variety of retail & dining options.
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