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Job Overview
Location
Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Date Posted
April 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the evolution of Smartly’s data platform by managing two complementary squads—Data Engineering and Data Analytics—under a unified vision while preserving their distinct missions and operating models.
- • Own the development and enhancement of the data platform, including data warehouses, pipelines, transformation layers, data models, semantic foundations, and core reporting assets to enable trusted, scalable, and self-serve data across the organization.
- • Drive engineering excellence through automation, governance, data contracts, lineage, observability, alerting, reliability, and scalable platform operations, ensuring high standards for data quality, validation, freshness, availability, and correctness.
- • Guide teams in building enriched, reusable, and trusted data assets that support self-serve capabilities for Product, Commercial, and other functions, promoting a data-informed culture by replacing fragmented reporting with consistent, live reporting.
- • Define and prioritize the data platform roadmap by converting operational pain points and support requests into durable improvements and better data products.
- • Stay hands-on with data, modelling, and insight work to unblock teams, set quality benchmarks, and demonstrate best practices in execution.
- • Coach and grow team capabilities in modelling, validation, testing, communication, and business understanding.
- • Smartly.io is an AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands, managing over $6B in ad spend across major platforms and delivering more than 800 billion impressions annually with a mission to create inclusive, innovative, and impactful advertising technology.
- • The company operates in 13 countries with over 750 employees from 60+ nationalities, fostering a culture of trust, transparency, and open feedback, and is recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong technical foundations in data engineering, data warehousing, data modelling, and analytics.
- • Experience building or scaling a modern data platform in a product, SaaS, or data-intensive environment.
- • Ability to lead discussions on data pipelines, warehouse design, modelling, reliability, governance, and real-time or near-real-time data flows.
- • Track record of leading cross-functional or multidisciplinary teams spanning platform and analytics work.
- • Strong product and business orientation to translate ambiguous needs into scalable data solutions and clear priorities.
- • Hands-on experience with modern data tooling such as BigQuery, dbt, orchestration frameworks, semantic layers, and observability tooling (a strong plus).
- • Strong communication skills to present data and insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- • Comfort working in ambiguous environments with evolving priorities and room to shape the future state.
- • Builder mindset with high ownership, pragmatism, and a focus on creating structure while moving fast.
- • Advanced education in a relevant field is a plus, but equivalent practical experience is equally valued.
- • Ability and willingness to work from the Helsinki office three days a week.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Inclusive Culture: Join a diverse team of over 800 Smartlies from more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
- • Global Impact: Contribute to a company influencing global advertising outcomes for brands and driving business growth.
- • Wellbeing Focus: Access to generous healthcare packages, mental health services, paid holidays, and family leave supporting a healthy work-life balance.
- • Total Rewards: Equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
- • Hybrid Workplace: Flexible hybrid model balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days per year.
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About Smartly.io Solutions Oy
Smartly.io provides a cloud-based social advertising platform that automates campaign management, creative production, and performance optimization across major social networks. Its software enables advertisers to produce dynamic ad creatives at scale, manage cross-channel campaigns efficiently, and optimize bids and budgets using predictive analytics. The platform integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok, serving brands and agencies with tools for collaboration, workflow automation, and real-time performance insights to improve return on ad spend.
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