Who are we? Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a leading omnichannel marketing platform that leverages advanced AI and data-driven performance media to enable smarter decision-making, increased efficiency, and maximized ROI for …
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Skills: Paid search, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Campaign optimization, Data analysis
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind i…
Skills: Paid search, Campaign management, Data analysis, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind i…
Skills: Paid search, Campaign management, Data analysis, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai (formally Kenshoo) is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're ev…
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai (formally Kenshoo) is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're ev…
Skills: Sales management, Digital marketing, SaaS, Pipeline management, Strategic planning
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai (formally Kenshoo) is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're ev…
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai (formally Kenshoo) is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're ev…
Skills: Sales management, Digital marketing, SaaS, Pipeline management, Sales strategy
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the p…
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the p…
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the p…
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind i…
Skills: Paid search, Campaign optimization, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Data analysis
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind i…
Skills: Paid search, Campaign optimization, Data analysis, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our family. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind i…
Skills: Paid Search, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Data Analysis, Campaign Optimization
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the p…
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Skills: Technical Leadership, CI/CD, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, AWS
Who are we? Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a leading omnichannel marketing platform that leverages advanced AI and data-driven performance media to enable smarter decision-making, increased efficiency, and maximized ROI for …
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the p…
Skills: Sales, Account management, Business development, AdTech, MarTech
Ready to take your career to the next level? Skai is a go-to-market engine that powers brand decisions and execution with actionable intelligence for accuracy, speed and agility in making customer connections. Skai’s pla…
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Full-time
Posted 12h ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Lead AI Engineer will own the delivery of complex, multi-component products and establish pod-level AI workflows to improve engineering velocity. They will also drive cross-functional alignment and mentor teams on pragmatic AI leverage and architectural standards.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering and architecture within SaaS or data-driven environments. Deep hands-on expertise in building AI-driven systems, LLM applications, and agentic workflows is required.
Full job description
Who are we?
Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a leading omnichannel marketing platform that leverages advanced AI and data-driven performance media to enable smarter decision-making, increased efficiency, and maximized ROI for businesses worldwide. Our platform helps manage approximately $10B in annual ad spend through partnerships with Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and others.
Founded in 2006, Skai is a global company with around 650 employees. We operate in a hybrid work model that combines remote flexibility with in-office collaboration.
What will you do?
As a Lead AI Engineer, you will own the delivery of complex, multi-component products and play a pivotal role in shaping how our engineering teams leverage AI-driven product development.
In this role, you will function as a hybrid of engineer, architect, analyst, and product partner. You will establish pod-level AI workflows, lead the adoption of agentic development practices across teams, and build AI-enabled solutions that significantly improve engineering velocity and output quality. You will drive cross-functional alignment, mentor teams on pragmatic AI leverage, and encode organizational and domain knowledge into scalable context layers to maximize product impact.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Architecture: Own the end-to-end delivery of complex multi-component products, ensuring technical cohesion across services and data layers.
Agentic Workflows & Standards: Establish pod-level AI workflows and engineering standards that ensure high-quality output from both human engineers and AI agents.
AI-Enabled Velocity: Build and scale AI-enabled solutions that drive measurable improvements in team velocity, quality, and execution efficiency.
Context & Domain Encoding: Encode organizational and domain knowledge into context layers and prompt guardrails to scale expert judgment across the engineering organization.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Lead cross-functional pods, drive execution alignment, and balance technical debt management with rapid AI-driven feature delivery.
Strategic Influence & Product Impact: Act as a strategic partner to align scope, architecture, and success metrics, ensuring teams are solving high-value problems with clear business impact.
Mentorship & AI Culture: Shape the organizational culture regarding AI-driven development and mentor engineering teams on pragmatic AI leverage and delivery excellence.
Requirements
Proven experience (at least 5+ years) in software engineering, architecture, and leading complex technical projects in SaaS or data-driven environments.
Deep hands-on experience in building, architecting, and deploying AI-driven systems, LLM applications, or agentic workflows.
Strong architectural background with the ability to ensure cohesion across multi-component platforms, microservices, and data layers.
Demonstrated experience in driving engineering standards, developer velocity improvements, and CI/CD/AI practices.
Excellent cross-functional leadership skills - ability to bridge technical strategy with product vision and business metrics.
Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading cross-functional pods, and fostering technical adoption.
Strong analytical mindset with a data-informed approach to measuring execution efficiency and product success.
Exceptional communication skills and a proactive, collaborative approach in a dynamic, hybrid environment.
Skai is the leading omnichannel platform for commerce media, enabling brands and agencies to connect data, insights, and execution across the world’s largest publishers and retailers. Built for the agentic era, Skai’s platform unifies planning, activation, measurement, and retail operations in a single integrated system. With its open architecture and AI capabilities, including commerce media agent Celeste AI and support for custom AI agents via its Model Context Protocol (MCP), Skai enables organizations to drive smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and improved performance across every channel.
Trusted by over 8,000 brands and agencies, such as PepsiCo, Sanofi, Estée Lauder, Publicis, Tinuiti, and WPP, Skai integrates with more than 300 publishers and retail media networks, including Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Criteo, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and TikTok, and is headquartered in San Francisco with nine international offices.
Skai uses the brand name Kenshoo Skai in the UK & Europe.
Offices: North American HQ 22 4th St. 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA, US · 30 Habarzel street, 6th Floor, Tel Aviv, Israel 6971010, IL
digital marketing technologySEMsearch marketingsocial media advertisingonline advertisinginternet advertising technologysocial network adsmobile marketingdisplay advertisingretail media
Skai is the leading omnichannel platform for commerce media, enabling brands and agencies to connect data, insights, and execution across the world’s largest publishers and retailers. Built for the agentic era, Skai’s platform unifies planning, activation, measurement, and retail operations in a single integrated system. With its open architecture and AI capabilities, including commerce media agent Celeste AI and support for custom AI agents via its Model Context Protocol (MCP), Skai enables organizations to drive smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and improved performance across every channel.
Trusted by over 8,000 brands and agencies, such as PepsiCo, Sanofi, Estée Lauder, Publicis, Tinuiti, and WPP, Skai integrates with more than 300 publishers and retail media networks, including Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, Criteo, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and TikTok, and is headquartered in San Francisco with nine international offices.
Skai uses the brand name Kenshoo Skai in the UK & Europe.
Offices: North American HQ 22 4th St. 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA, US · 30 Habarzel street, 6th Floor, Tel Aviv, Israel 6971010, IL
digital marketing technologySEMsearch marketingsocial media advertisingonline advertisinginternet advertising technologysocial network adsmobile marketingdisplay advertisingretail media