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My role at OpenX is to lead the OpenX community, and drive the product vision, while my title remains ‘CTO’. A ‘true’ CTO would spend more time on the OpenX architecture, designing and leading development of a next-generation technical infrastructure. A better title for my job will be ‘Community Leader’.

We need to hire a CTO who can own the technology vision, and lead our excellent team of engineers to build OpenX to greater levels. As you can imagine, this is a very important position, and one that I personally will take a lot of time and effort to find the right person.

More details about the kind of person we are looking for are below. In summary, we are looking for an experienced, practical, energetic person who has previously built a huge global internet application, who wants to truly change the online advertising world.

Working at OpenX is a unique experience. We are a start-up that has tens of thousands of businesses globally depending upon us for their core revenue. We are positioned to transform a confusing online advertising marketplace into one that is transparent, efficient and open.

OpenX CTO Job Description

Responsibilities:

The CTO is the owner and driver of OpenX’s global technology vision and execution

Ideal Characteristics:

• Proven track record building and leading a world-class technology team
• Ability to develop and clearly articulate a compelling technology vision and inspire the team and community
• Strongly architectural mindset and approach. Ability to see the forest through the trees
• Global operating experience and outlook
• Experience building products for large communities of users
• Experience managing multiple parallel development work streams from concept to design and implementation and ongoing refinement
• Direct experience of deploying architecture and systems at great scale (e.g. 10K+ transactions per second) with very high availability and low cost
• Experience managing individuals and teams conducting complex, science-based algorithmic and optimization work
• Strong business partnership. Our executive management team need a real partner, not a requirements ‘order taker’! This means that the CTO must be very commercially “aware” and able help shape our business direction
• Experience in the online advertising space, especially: ad serving, ad targeting, marketplace design, yield optimization, self-serve participation, large scale transactions infrastructure etc
• An Open Source guru who is comfortable working with and managing developers around the world is a major plus
• Deep passion to transform the game and win

Please let us know if you know someone who fits the bill. Please send inquiries to hr@openx.org.