VP Programmatic

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP Programmatic based in Switzerland.

This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for owning the programmatic advertising engineering domain end to end.
You will take full ownership of architecture, technical strategy, roadmap decisions, engineering quality, and performance across a sophisticated sell-side advertising technology stack.
The role spans client-side and server-side auction infrastructure, video, consent management, supply-chain integrity, and publisher monetization.
You will lead a compact team of approximately ten engineers through two technical team leads while remaining deeply hands-on with complex technical decisions.
You will serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for programmatic engineering challenges and represent the organization within the wider advertising technology ecosystem.
The environment is highly data-driven, AI-native, and focused on measurable performance, with significant scale across thousands of publisher websites.
This position is particularly suited to an experienced adtech engineering leader who enjoys being close to the technology, solving difficult problems, and making high-impact decisions.