Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a VP R&D on the Tech team in our Israel office, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and scaling the technology that powers Taboola’s core products and revenue streams.
You’ll lead a large, global R&D organization and drive technical excellence across multiple mission-critical product domains.
Working closely with Product and senior leadership, you’ll turn strategy into execution and ensure our platforms operate reliably at massive scale.
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in senior R&D leadership roles
- Proven experience leading and scaling large R&D organizations (250+ people)
- Strong technical background building and operating large-scale, high-traffic, data-driven systems
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, algorithm experts, and data scientists
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with Product to deliver measurable business impact
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience managing distributed teams across multiple geographies
- Background in advertising technology, marketplaces, or large-scale platforms
How you’ll make an impact:
- Lead and scale a global R&D organization of approximately 300 people across Israel and Eastern Europe
- Own the technical vision, architecture, and execution across multiple core product areas
- Drive engineering excellence, reliability, scalability, and performance across high-impact systems
- Partner closely with Product leadership to prioritize and deliver initiatives that drive revenue and growth
- Build strong leadership layers, talent development plans, and succession across the organization
- Serve as a key member of the senior Technology leadership team and Taboola management
Why Taboola?
If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:
- Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
- Well-being: Competitive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, including comprehensive health benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired.
- Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.
Ready to realize your potential?
Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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About Taboola
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.
Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.
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