Engineering Manager - Ad Experience Team
Teads · Ljubljana
About Teads
Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform building the future of digital advertising where quality content, trusted publishers, ambitious brands, and human creativity can thrive. Operating at true scale - processing 18 billion ad opportunities every single day - we connect global brands with a monthly reach of over 2.2 billion unique users.
At Teads, we believe your impact travels further. We are a borderless team of 1,700+ innovators across 30+ countries who favor outcome over tenure, value trusted autonomy, and use predictive AI to amplify human ingenuity rather than replace it. We move at pace, tackle genuinely complex problems, and foster a high-accountability culture that stays genuinely human. If you are looking for room to build and meaningful scope, you belong here. Learn more at www.teads.com.
About the Opportunity & Team
This role sits within the Ad Experience team, reporting directly to our Engineering Director based in Montpellier, France. This team is responsible for driving the complete lifecycle of a Creative on the Enterprise side of Teads.
We build the core tools that bring digital ads to life:
- Studio: Our flagship WYSIWYG web application designed to craft and animate rich ad experiences.
- Creative Editor: A guided workflow for building streamlined creatives quickly and intuitively.
- Ad Delivery & Players: Proprietary in-browser players that seamlessly render ad formats across millions of web pages.
Our technology stack is front-end leaning (Angular, React, and pure TypeScript formats), backed by robust Node.js and Scala services. A major strategic priority for the team is expanding our capabilities by building an intelligent AI agent. This agent will empower creators inside and outside of Teads to design high-performing creatives faster through an innovative, AI-based design scoring system.
You will manage and support a dedicated, distributed team of 4 frontend/full-stack engineers (3 based locally in Ljubljana and 1 in Montpellier). You will collaborate daily with a dedicated Product Manager based locally in Ljubljana, while the team's overarching technical vision is further supported by 2 Staff Engineers reporting directly to the Engineering Director. We are looking for someone with Frontend or Full-stack experience.
About the Role
As the Engineering Manager for Ad Experience, your mission is to mentor, support, and empower your engineering team while collaborating closely with product and cross-functional partners to deliver exceptional creative tools. Success in this role means establishing a highly trusting, psychologically safe environment where engineers can thrive, while ensuring the seamless delivery of our AI agent and core creative applications.
What You'll Bring
People Development & Team Culture
- Nurture and support your team members through regular 1:1s, constructive feedback, and highly tailored career growth plans.
- Foster an inclusive, trusting, and psychologically safe environment where open communication is championed, diverse perspectives are deeply valued, and ownership is shared.
- Build strong distributed collaboration practices to maintain a seamless, connected community between your team members in Ljubljana and colleagues in Montpellier.
Product Delivery & Technical Direction
- Partner closely with your local Product Manager and UX design to thoughtfully translate product strategies into actionable milestones, balancing new feature development with platform stability.
- Guide the continuous development of our creative platforms (Studio, Creative Editor) and browser ad players.
- Champion the rollout of our AI-assisted design agent and real-time scoring system, encouraging a culture of thoughtful experimentation and shared learning.
Operational Excellence & Collaboration
- Facilitate clear alignment across our full-stack ecosystem (Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Scala), drawing on the technical expertise of our Staff Engineers.
- Remove blockers and refine workflows with empathy, ensuring the team can maintain a healthy, fulfilling, and sustainable pace of execution.
- Connect your team with cross-functional partners across the wider Teads enterprise organization, ensuring your engineers understand the broader business impact of their work.
What You'll Get
- Meaningful scope & real ownership: your scope is bigger than your title. Guide products that power creative experiences for millions of web users globally.
- Global exposure and genuinely complex challenges at real scale: 2.2Bn users / month and 18Bn ad opportunities / day.
- Smart, ambitious peers across 30+ markets in a highly collaborative, cross-border setup.
- A genuinely human culture: high care alongside high accountability, where your well-being and flexibility matter.
- Real investment in your growth: mentorship, coaching, courses, workshops, certifications, and management programs.
What Will You Bring to the Team?
We know that great leaders come from diverse backgrounds. You do not need to check every single box to be a strong candidate for this role. If you are passionate about building supportive teams and great products, we want to hear from you.
- Leadership or Distributed Work Experience: Proven experience guiding and supporting software engineers as a manager, team lead, or mentor; OR significant experience as a senior/principal engineer working autonomously in remote/distributed setups with a strong desire to transition into formal management.
- Technical Comfort: Strong understanding of modern web ecosystems, comfortably navigating across front-end systems (TypeScript, Angular, or React) and backend setups (Node.js, Scala, or similar).
- Collaborative Communication: Fluent English with strong active listening skills, empathy, and a highly collaborative approach to problem-solving.
- Location: Right to work in Slovenia (Ljubljana-based hybrid setup).
Bonus
- Experience building or scaling rich web applications, WYSIWYG editors, canvas tools, or complex web ad formats.
- Exposure to integrating AI/LLM models or intelligent scoring systems into intuitive, user-facing products.
- Hands-on experience nurturing cross-border collaboration between international engineering hubs (e.g., France and Slovenia).
At Teads, your impact travels further.
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Life at Teads
At Teads, we don’t just offer jobs. We blend creativity, technology, and cutting-edge data to shape the future of media.
As a Teadster, you’ll work alongside smart humans, collaborate with meaningful brands, and leverage advanced AI and automation to redefine how advertising works in a transparent, privacy-first world.
We are builders, innovators, and future-thinkers. If you are excited by the evolution of technology and ready to embrace the future of AI-driven media, you belong here.
Why Join Us?
- A New Era of Media: We’ve merged two open internet category leaders, Outbrain and Teads to create a unified omnichannel platform. Together, we drive results from branding to performance across CTV, mobile, and web.
- AI-Powered Innovation: We actively embrace AI and next-gen technology to solve complex industry challenges. We look for curious minds who aren't afraid to experiment, adapt, and lead the charge into the future of digital advertising.
- Growth & High Performance: Our culture is dynamic, global, and built on excellence. We are committed to your success, offering the modern tools, mentorship, and development opportunities you need to thrive.
- Belonging & Impact: We foster a welcoming, diverse environment where approachable, resourceful, and passionate people excel. Through our employee-led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), you can actively drive change in areas like sustainability, women’s empowerment, charitable initiatives, and DE&I.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Teads is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment. We celebrate unique perspectives and are dedicated to building a team that reflects the global communities we serve.