Head of Engineering - Ad Management / Retail (all genders)

About Us

Factor Eleven is a leading drive-to-store revenue platform for brick-and-mortar retailers and CPG brands. Our platform automates the entire lifecycle of digital promotion communication - from media planning and ad creation through to campaign delivery, billing, and reporting. Operating as a high-touch enterprise managed service, humans orchestrate our campaign strategy while our platform automates execution.

We're hiring a Head of Engineering for our AdManagement / Retail unit . In this role, you will own the technical engine behind the primary interface of F11's platform. Your mission is to lead, scale, and evolve an engineering organisation tasked with a massive, high-stakes objective: rebuilding these modules into a modern, AI-native architecture . You will act as the technical co-pilot to the Head of Product and collaborate closely with leadership peers across our other tribes and key commercial stakeholders. This is a role designed for a leader who thrives on breadth, loves complex orchestration, and wants to leave a definitive mark on a core enterprise platform.

What You Will Do

• Lead & Scale Leaders: Manage, coach, and develop a team of Engineering Managers. You will foster a culture of high performance, deep psychological safety, and continuous feedback.
• Drive Modernisation: Spearhead the greenfield rebuild and platform modernisation of our four core modules into a distributed, cloud-native system.
• Architectural Guardrails: Provide strong architectural oversight, ensuring key decisions align with our tech stack while actively embedding AI capabilities into both engineering workflows and product features.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Build rapid trust across technical and non-technical boundaries, translating complex engineering roadmaps into clear strategic value for commercial leaders.
• Operational Excellence: Balance high-level strategic vision with relentless operational execution, ensuring high-quality, predictable delivery in a fast-paced environment.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of leadership experience, with a proven track record of managing and developing Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors.
• Several years of experience in AdTech product companies
• 10+ years of total experience in software engineering, including solid knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud architecture (AWS).
• Hands-on experience or deep technical familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and GraphQL.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to build trust quickly with cross-functional peers and commercial leaders.

What Makes You Exceptional

• High Ambiguity Tolerance: You are comfortable making sound technical and people decisions in environments without clear precedent or pre-defined processes.
• Domain Breadth: You are energised by owning multiple adjacent domains simultaneously, preferring systemic breadth over a narrow, single-domain focus.
• AI-native Mindset: You don't just view AI as a buzzword; you actively look for ways to integrate it into your team's development workflows and the product's feature set.
• Strategic Product Builder: You are an engineering leader who knows exactly when to build fresh and when to optimise, aligning technical execution with market opportunities. You have a sharp instinct for balancing technical debt against fast-paced business delivery.