StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
Engineering at StackAdapt
As an engineer at StackAdapt, you’ll build production-level software that directly impacts our advertising platform. You’ll work with modern stacks across Go, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and more. Our engineering org is collaborative, cross-functional, and built around clear growth paths.
About the team
You’ll join the Creatives Platform group—an engineering team responsible for the systems and tooling that power self-serve creative creation and our in-house creative template library.
About the role
We’re hiring a design-led technologist to be a dedicated creative template partner embedded with engineering. The focus is to:
Collect Feedback and design new creative templates across channels, especially motion-heavy formats (Video/DCO)
Bridge engineering, product, and client-facing teams by identifying creative library gaps and translating them into scalable platform capabilities
This role is intentionally design + motion forward, with enough technical comfort to produce and iterate on templates directly.
- Design and produce programmatic templates using client assets and/or original concepts, spanning static, animated, and interactive formats.
- Create motion-forward template systems (animation patterns, transitions, reusable motion components) using tools like After Effects / Animate / Google Web Designer (or similar).
- Build and maintain interactive HTML5 templates that work across devices and platforms; troubleshoot layout/behavior issues using HTML5/CSS (and light JavaScript when needed).
- Partner with Engineering / Creative Studio / Product to understand what customers struggle to create, then translate insights into:
- New template concepts and reusable patterns for our in-house creative library
- Platform/library capability gaps for engineer and designer to build together (e.g., missing building blocks, controls, animation features, workflows)
- Develop ads creative best practices across channels and industries, and work with the team to apply vertical-specific creative strategies and patterns to inform template design.
- Participate in select customer/CS discussions to validate requirements and ensure templates solve real problems.
- Own quality checks (visual polish, specs compliance, responsiveness, accessibility considerations where applicable, and functional testing).
- Improve template workflows through standards (naming, structure, components), documentation, and experimentation with better tooling—including AI-assisted workflows where helpful.
- 5+ years of experience as a motion/visual designer (or equivalent portfolio-based experience).
- A portfolio showing strong digital advertising craft across display / social / web (motion work required; interactive is a plus).
- Intermediate+ motion/animation skills and strong visual design fundamentals (composition, typography, pacing, brand sensibility).
- Practical experience with HTML5 + CSS, including debugging/troubleshooting interactive creatives.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects; familiarity with Google Web Designer / Animate is a plus.
- Strong collaboration skills: you can translate ambiguous needs into clear template requirements and work effectively with engineers.
Nice to have:
- Experience optimizing creative assets for mobile/video environments; familiarity with DOOH and/or native formats.
- Experience with DCO / feed-driven creative or template frameworks.
- Basic video/audio editing experience.
- Hands-on experience applying AI tools (or a strong interest in doing so) to improve creative production workflows.
- Familiarity with Figma, component libraries, or design systems for reusable creative building blocks.
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
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