About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at MadHive, you are a hybrid technical leader operating at the intersection of solution architecture, executive client partnership, and hands-on engineering. You serve as the technical cornerstone for our most strategic enterprise clients, understanding their business challenges, architecting scalable technical solutions using MadHive’s infrastructure, and building trusted relationships to guide them through complex digital transformations. You will report to the Senior Director of Client Solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and whiteboard sessions with enterprise clients to map their business objectives to comprehensive, end-to-end technical architectures.
- Analyze client legacy systems, data landscapes, and operational bottlenecks, designing solutions that seamlessly embed MadHive’s platform into their existing ecosystem.
- Act as the ultimate technical problem solver, designing pragmatic workarounds and custom implementation strategies for unique client constraints.
- Serve as the primary technical face of MadHive for your assigned clients, building deep relationships with stakeholders ranging from AdOps managers to CTOs and VPs of Engineering.
- Navigate complex client dynamics, manage technical expectations, and align client business goals with MadHive’s delivery timelines.
- Partner closely with internal MadHive teams (Sales, Client Success, Product, and Core Engineering) to ensure a unified front and seamless client experience.
- Synthesize on-the-ground technical learnings and collaborate with Product & Core Engineering to translate valuable custom solutions into scalable core platform features.
- Tie together all technical aspects such as problem solving, bug remediation, release planning and management, and new feature rollout in a cohesive plan.
- Act as a user, advocate, expert, and enabler of AI technologies in the Madhive ecosystem and adtech domain.
- Build functional prototypes, automation scripts, and lightweight tooling to accelerate onboarding and prove technical feasibility.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in a client-facing technical role such as Solutions Architecture, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Consulting, or high-level Sales Engineering.
- Deep understanding of enterprise systems integration, AdTech integrations and value propositions, and complex data workflows.
- Mastery of SQL (complex joins, advanced queries, reporting, and troubleshooting) paired with a 'data wrangler' mindset.
- Comfortably navigate, manipulate, and extract value from massive, complex datasets scaling up to the petabyte level across numerous disparate tables.
- 3-5 years of adtech/programmatic experience and ability to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the adtech ecosystem, including programmatic buying, data management, and campaign optimization.
- API, AI, martech ecosystem integrations awareness and proficiency. Ability to solution and prototype integrations with various martech platforms.
- Subject matter expert leading hands-on with technical know-how, helping to determine methods and procedures on new product features and providing leadership to product managers or engineers.
- Ability to bridge the gap between technical AI innovation and tangible business outcomes, partnering with GTM, Success, and Product squads to articulate value.
- Ability to showcase how Maverick AI revolutionizes hand-off efficiency and multi-channel attribution for premier enterprise partners.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and debate technical details with developers.
- Proven ability to navigate unstructured client environments and drive clarity and consensus among divergent stakeholders.
- Background in AdTech (DSP, SSP, broadcasting, programmatic advertising) is a massive plus.
Skills
- SQL
- Data Wrangling
- Big Data
- AdTech
- Programmatic Buying
- Data Management
- Campaign Optimization
- API Integrations
- AI Integrations
- MarTech Integrations
- Solution Architecture
- Executive Presence
- Communication
Location
- New York City, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000-$210,000
About the Company
- Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses.
- Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve.
- Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes.
- Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media.
- Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work.
- We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity.
- We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important.
- We are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact.
- We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration.
- We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
