VP, Global Engineering

About Acast

Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast

creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion

quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.

The VP, Global Engineering leads the engineering organisation that builds and runs Acast's platforms. You turn product and

technology strategy into reliable software, shipped at pace, by teams who are proud of their work and want to stay.

This is a growth mandate, not a turnaround. The platforms work. Your job is to push them further and faster, and to build the

engineering culture and operating model that makes that sustainable.

• Improve the speed, predictability and transparency of delivery through clear planning, prioritisation and dependency

management.

• Set governance for architecture, scalability and technical debt, making the trade-off between near-term delivery and long-term

platform health explicit enough to be argued commercially.

• Own the engineering of the systems that carry the marketplace: hosting and distribution, real-time and dynamic ad insertion,

the auction and yield layer, the data platform behind targeting and measurement, and the creator and advertiser self-serve

products.

• Act as the senior engineering partner to product leadership, jointly shaping priorities, scope, sequencing and delivery

approach.

• Build working relationships with commercial and sales so engineering understands advertiser and creator outcomes directly, and

can be held to them.

• Support enterprise advertiser conversations, technical diligence and partner integrations where senior engineering credibility

is needed.

• Assess where AI creates real advantage in ad decisioning, contextual targeting, measurement and creator tooling, and where it

doesn't, and make the investment case accordingly.

• Significant experience leading a large engineering organisation as a manager of managers, at a company of comparable or greater

scale.

• A track record of improving delivery performance, engineering quality and operating rhythm in an organisation that had outgrown

its structure, not only one that was already mature.

• Strong platform and infrastructure depth: high-volume distributed systems, real-time processing, and the reliability and cost

discipline that come with serving at scale.

• Experience in marketplaces, streaming or another two-sided platform where the technology carries the revenue model. Direct

dynamic ad insertion or auction experience is a clear advantage, not a requirement.

• Enough technical depth to engage credibly with a complex, multi-platform environment and make pragmatic architectural calls,

without needing to be a hands-on architect.

• Clear communication with technical, commercial and executive audiences, and the composure to operate in a listed company where

performance is public.

Our engineering organisation is remote-first globally, but this role works closely with key cross-functional teams and

stakeholders, so regular face-to-face collaboration matters. You will be based in the UK or Sweden and work from our London or

Stockholm office on a regular basis.

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants

will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or

any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy,

continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we

strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.