Careers

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Position

Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Strategic Financial Analyst to join our team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategic Finance. The Senior Strategic Financial Analyst will partner with business owners and be responsible for reporting, forecasting, and analyzing all aspects of their respective organizations; providing variance analysis, planning headcount, and performing ad-hoc modeling. You will be responsible for producing consolidated P&Ls, recommending high ROI activities, process improvements, generating budget vs actual analysis, and completing other ad hoc projects. 

This position plays a central role in driving financial results within a high growth organization. 

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented & numbers driven, a strong business partner and communicator, who is inquisitive, focused, and can balance quality and accuracy while moving quickly in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. An organized, efficient self-starter who can execute on minimal supervision, with proven time management and multi-tasking capabilities.

Location: The role is preferably based out of our US offices located in New York, NY; or Menlo Park, CA; on a hybrid basis

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with business leaders to develop strategic, long range financial plans and translating complex financial data into actionable insights

• Provide direct support for various business verticals by owning all FP&A business cycles: Completing monthly close, updating quarterly forecasts, managing annual budgets, and assisting in production of monthly Executive reporting package 

• Drive monthly actual versus budget reporting & variance analysis: identify drivers and generate executive level commentary 

• Track headcount management; be the source for department expense tracking & reporting 

• Manage yearly Capital Expense budget for both software development and physical long-term assets 

• Drive process improvements and participate in reporting enhancements with a mindset of continuous improvement 

• Collaborate with Accounting on month-end close to ensure accuracy and completeness of expenses, accruals and explanations of variances to plan 

• Manage daily financial inquiries, ad hoc reports, and collaborate with other teams on projects and modeling 

• Produce business cases for the organization that help foster value-based decision making 

You are: 

• Highly detail-oriented, maintaining a high level of integrity, accuracy and precision in your work 

• Analytical, inquisitive and tenacious when untangling problems and finding answers 

• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously 

• An expert in Microsoft Excel 

Minimum Qualifications

• An undergraduate bachelor’s degree in finance, economics or a quantitative discipline from a top institution

• Experience in strategic finance, Investment Banking, Equity Research, Consulting or a related field with 3+ years of progressive growth

• Exhibited ability to work cross-functionally and build positive relationships with senior business leaders 

• In depth exposure to building and maintaining 3-statement financial and valuation models 

• Experience with Ad Tech, integration, and/or SaaS forecasting in a nimble, high growth environment

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$100,000 - $120,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team

Cardlytics has long-standing partnerships with some of the largest national banks as well as UK-based banks and neo-banks. We work closely with our bank and advertiser partners to align business goals, helping banks increase user engagement through our products and helping advertisers to increase sales. We drive internal products, self-serve products for multiple audiences, and external consumer experiences. The products are connected to facilitate functions such as creating and approving detailed campaigns, viewing insights and collecting offers. The Product Design team has a direct impact on all of these products and the experience of every one of our users.

As a Lead Product Designer, you will be part of the Product Team, working closely in cross-functional teams to create new and enhanced user experiences for our product platforms. 

About the Position
Location: US remote-friendly (Atlanta or EST time zone is preferred)
 

You will work on product designs, owning complex, high profile projects. Projects can include B2B management tools, data-aggregating dashboards with complex inputs and comparisons, or B2C shopping and reward interfaces that create a fun, easy experience for users. We are looking for someone who’s excited to delight users by simplifying complex flows into streamlined and rewarding experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and execution of product initiatives that simplify complex solutions in your product area

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data analysts and business teams to iterate on new concepts and facilitate product execution

• Identify, research and drive strategic initiatives to advance your product area

• Periodically present your work to teams, stakeholders and clients; run research studies and feedback sessions

• Create versions of your product designs for presentations to clients and aid in the storytelling around the experiences

• Be the voice of users, balancing their needs with business objectives and client/partner goals

• Periodic travel to Menlo Park for Product team onsite planning meetings

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX or product design, leading impactful initiatives from ideation to execution 

• Well-versed in Figma (or a similar tool like Adobe Xd or Sketch), using auto-layout, component libraries, prototyping, etc

• A portfolio showcasing quality designs and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of the user, business objectives and complex internal systems

• Knowledgeable of UX industry standards and trends, iOS, Android, responsive web

  Problem-solving skills, able to break down complex problems and transform into clean, intuitive user experiences

• Able to articulate strategic reasoning behind design decisions

• Shows organizational skills with strong attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Independent worker, takes initiative with XFN team to keep work moving forward and find ways to enhance product with ongoing feedback, research and data

• Good listener, actionable with feedback

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.

About Cardlytics + Bridg
Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We make commerce smarter and more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital reward programs. Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us! 

Bridg, a division of Cardlytics, is an enterprise data and audience platform that powers the growth of Retail Media. Using our exclusive offline identity resolution capabilities along with clients’ point of sale (POS) data, we help Retailers significantly expand their 1st party data (identifying unknown customers and enriching the understanding of loyalty members), ensure reporting transparency, and create new monetization opportunities working with their Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) partners. CPG brands and advertisers in turn gain access to verified shopper data across loyalty & non-loyalty customers that powers advanced insights, precision targeting, and closed loop measurement. Join us at the cutting edge as we transform how companies connect with their customers through data.

About the Position
Bridg is seeking a Sr. QA Automation Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr.Director of QA Engineering. Responsible for building/maintaining software QA automation frameworks along with day-to-day sprint projects, working closely with engineering and product teams for our B2C web SaaS product. You will use your engineering acumen and passion for quality to drive results for and with our teams bringing cutting-edge big data products to market.

You will be working cross functionally with team members from Engineering, Design, Product, and Customer Partnership teams to successfully help our team develop the features and products our customers want, need, or have yet to even imagine.

Responsibilities:

• Create infrastructure to build and execute python automation scripts.

• Working very closely with engineering / product teams. Assisting QA functions, providing guidance, support, and direction for the growing Engineering team.

• Perform manual testing including creation of test plans, test cases, status reports and summary reports, and implement test automation frameworks.

• Utilize QA automation tools such as Selenium. And testing / automating WebUI, REST API services.

• Working with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions etc.

• Using AWS services in day to day operations, including EMR, ES clusters, RDS etc..

• Perform load testing to capture load and performance timings of the data pipeline.

• Strong experience in database testing languages and tools such as SQL, MySQL, Snowflake.

• Report and document QA activities and project status to Engineering and Product Management on a weekly basis.

• Participate in daily scrum, bi-weekly sprint grooming and planning meetings.

• Work very closely with offshore teams and mentor QA engineers/analysts and review their quality of work.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math or a related technical field from an accredited institution, and 5+ years of relevant employment experience.

• 5+ years of developing end-to-end Business Intelligence solutions: data modeling, ETL and reporting.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, especially in QA Automation.

• Strong Python, SQL, Snowflake and AWS services skill set and experience is a must.

• ETL testing experience using Big Data models is a must.

• Strong experience in agile scrum environments and working very closely with engineering / product teams, providing guidance, support, and direction for the growing engineering team.

• Experience in performing blackbox, whitebox and greybox testing methods, and implementing test automation frameworks using Python scripts.

• Strong experience in testing / automating REST API services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.

• Java coding experience is a huge plus.

• Experience in Selenium with Java is nice to have.

• Load testing using custom built python scripts and/or industry standard tools is a plus.

• Experience working closely with offshore teams and mentor QA engineers/analysts and review their quality of work.

Salary Range for LA, California- $135,000- $150,000

Salary Range for Champaign, Illinois- $118,000 - $135,000

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education 

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!) 

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team

The Platform Support team ensures the reliable operation of our platform by providing technical assistance to customers and resolving complex platform-related issues. This team plays a vital role in maintaining platform stability, addressing escalations, and ensuring customers receive timely and effective support. Their work directly impacts customer satisfaction and helps drive overall business success by keeping our systems running smoothly.

About the Position

Location: Remote EST Timezone

Cardlytics is seeking a Platform Support Lead to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Director, Integration Consultants. This hybrid role blends hands-on technical support with team leadership, focusing on resolving complex platform issues and leading a small team. The lead will drive process improvements, optimize support workflows, and enhance team performance, making a direct impact on the efficiency and reliability of our support operations and the experience of our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Platform Support and Consumer Success teams, providing guidance, coaching, and professional development for team members.

• Participate in resolving complex technical issues, directly supporting platform-related incidents, and escalating when necessary to ensure SLAs are met.

• Build and refine processes for platform support and customer success, driving operational efficiency, and reducing reliance on engineering escalations.

• Work closely with other internal teams such as Engineering, Product, and Sales to ensure customer success and platform stability.

• Act as a point of contact for critical customer interactions, driving issue resolution, and maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.

• Develop and track KPIs to measure team performance, identify trends, and provide visibility to leadership on both support outcomes and customer success metrics.

• Contribute to long-term strategy for platform support and customer success, aligning team goals with overall business objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years in an enterprise technical support role, with at least 2 years in a leadership position.

• In-depth knowledge of platform operations, with practical experience in troubleshooting and resolving complex technical challenges. Proficient in shell scripting and coding.

• Proficiency in Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)

• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and mentor a team, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Experience in building, implementing, and improving operational processes to enhance efficiency and team performance.

• Strong cross-functional communication and teamwork skills to ensure alignment across departments.

• A passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences and the ability to act as a customer advocate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies (e.g., AWS, Networking).

• Familiarity in tools such as Salesforce, Zendesk, DataDog, SQL and AWS

• Proven track record in process improvement and driving operational efficiency in support functions.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team:
The Core Data Platform team at Cardlytics is responsible for the data infrastructure that powers the various products and offerings within the company. This team develops high-performance and scalable data platforms, supporting multiple data pipelines to ensure rapid and reliable data ingestion and delivery. The work of this team is critical in providing data services to different teams within the company, enhancing customer loyalty and deepening relationships with our financial institution partners.

About the Position:
Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering - Core Data Platform Team. In this role, you will develop new data feeds and features, create scalable data platforms, and contribute to building insights products using large amounts of financial data. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and reliability of our data services, supporting various business functions across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and solve complex data challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical leadership and mentor junior engineers

• Architecting and developing new applications and features that provide data and data services to different teams within the enterprise, including engineering, data science, analysts, product, management/executives, and other business teams.

• Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

• Building insights products using large amounts of financial data.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize software features.

• Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.

• Conducting testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software applications.

• Participating in the design and implementation of software architecture and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or related field

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• Proven track record in producing maintainable software implementations with highest quality

• 8+ years of experience in software development

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java or Python

• Experience in mentoring junior engineers and providing technical leadership

• Experience designing and building large scale distributed system

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Backend software engineer with experience building large scale distributed systems

• Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

• Experience working with AWS services, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Spark, Spark on EKS, Hadoop or similar 

• Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid or similar

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

Posting Job Range: $240k - $275k base

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics + Bridg
Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We make commerce smarter and more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital reward programs. Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us! 

Bridg, a division of Cardlytics, is an enterprise data and audience platform that powers the growth of Retail Media. Using our exclusive offline identity resolution capabilities along with clients’ point of sale (POS) data, we help Retailers significantly expand their 1st party data (identifying unknown customers and enriching the understanding of loyalty members), ensure reporting transparency, and create new monetization opportunities working with their Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) partners. CPG brands and advertisers in turn gain access to verified shopper data across loyalty & non-loyalty customers that powers advanced insights, precision targeting, and closed loop measurement. Join us at the cutting edge as we transform how companies connect with their customers through data.

About the Team
At Bridg, you will be solving complex problems with a business that celebrates innovation and values your contributions. We want you to wake up each day excited to use cutting edge tools/technologies and software development practices. Our platform is a combination of microservices and a large-scale data pipeline (with 10s of billions of points of sale transaction data from major retailers).

About the Position
Reports to: Head of Engineering
Location: Menlo Park, CA

Bridg is seeking to expand our team that owns a highly scalable, data integration, and transformation platform. You will be creating and building the platform that includes ingestion and transformation of data, data governance, machine learning, analytics, and consumer insights. 

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in computer science, or related field.

• Strong object oriented programming, preferably Java.

• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.

• Willingness to learn new skills and work in a collaborative environment.

• Self starter with excellent communication skills, written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS tools and frameworks is a plus.

• Big data experience, building systems for high performance and scale is a plus.

• Experience with databases and data warehousing technologies.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$130,000 - $150,000

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education 

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!) 

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team
The Ads Marketplace Optimization team focuses on delivering the best set of offers for every opportunity. By leveraging cutting edge machine learning techniques, the team is moving key metrics for the company and our customers through optimal offer selection/ranking, budget management, pricing.

About the Position
Cardlytics is seeking a Director of Engineering to join our team, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

Director of Engineering, Ads Marketplace Optimization set the vision for the team optimizing on Ads delivery for the Cardlytics Ads marketplace and lead the execution. This hands-on role requires someone with a proven track record in marketplace optimizations and strong experience in Machine Learning techniques used in AdTech. Proven impact on key metrics around user engagement, budget consumption and overall marketplace optimization will be highly valued. This is a critical responsibility which is at the heart of the core business for the company. The ideal candidate will also have strong influence and input on the general machine learning direction for the company.

Responsibilities:
You will:

• Work effectively with product and engineering teams to set the vision and shape the technical direction for the team and company.

• Build effective teams by leading, mentoring and growing a team of Machine Learning and Data engineers

• Lead design and develop of optimization concepts and workflows spanning from prototypes to operating at scale

• Deliver results by continually monitoring the day-to-day product development lifecycle.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters in Computer Science or equivalent

• 5+ years experience managing a team of experienced ICs comprising ML Scientists and Engineers

• 5+ years hands-on experience leveraging machine learning techniques and advancements in industry, with a proven impact on company metrics

• Demonstrated experience working with product leadership and others to drive a focused technical strategy, and driving positive changes while building trust and credibility across multiple areas of the business.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

• Proven track record in digital media and ad technology, including ads optimizations

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

Salary Range: 260k - 285k

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$210,000 - $240,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Position
The Partner Lead is an integral part of the Emerging sales team. Our team is in build and rebuild mode and this role has the opportunity to make a huge impact on the team’s success. They must be capable of developing strong relationships with their clients, deeply understanding their clients marketing objectives, creating and executing on strategic business plans to achieve those objectives, and ultimately maximizing the business opportunity for their clients and Cardlytics.

Cardlytics is seeking a Partner Lead to join our team, reporting to the VP, Industry Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Use your experience within the media or technology industry to secure new business wins, and drive growth from customers, that creates win-win situations

• Develop an industry relevant strategy driving new business,onboarding customers and being in-market (eg conferences & events) to exceed revenue goals and lead long-term growth for Cardlytics

• Create and deliver compelling sales presentations & story-telling with confidence

• Work with Cardlytics’ vast purchase data set as well as the analytics team to uncover insights and recommendations that will deepen our partnership with advertisers

• Partner with revenue operations, sales development, and customer success to strategically engage, onboard and grow customers by developing joint learning plans. 

• Foster existing customer relationships while engaging "upwards" and "out" with new stakeholders and decision makers 

Minimum Qualifications

• Digital advertising sales, with 3+ years of meeting and exceeding revenue targets
  primarily through hunting new business and developing long-term strategic partnerships

• Leveraging CRM tools to create and manage a pipeline that is consistently updated and accurate

• Data-driven selling, and you’re comfortable with business and media performance metrics

• Influencing decisions up and across an organization through excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Results-oriented with a relentless focus on pipeline growth and revenue attainment

• A collaborator who can effectively partner across external and internal organizational teams

• Organized and able to coordinate multiple resources, priorities, and deadlines

• A strategic thinker who focuses on longer-term issues and opportunities to grow partnerships

• In love with data, and curious and passionate for any opportunity to prove the bottom-line profitability of advertising

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$100,000 - $125,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team:

The Ads Marketplace team at Cardlytics comprises a dynamic group of scientists and engineers dedicated to rethinking and redefining ad delivery and optimization at scale. Our work directly impacts millions of customers daily, driving innovation and effectiveness in how advertising reaches its audience.

About the Position:

As an Applied Scientist in the Ads Marketplace team you will play a crucial role in developing sophisticated models that address key challenges in digital advertising. You will use advanced machine learning techniques to improve offer ranking, personalize user experiences, and predict user behaviors, such as clicks and conversions, thereby enhancing targeting accuracy and increasing advertising ROI.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and refine machine learning models for ranking, personalization, click and conversion prediction.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends and insights that can be leveraged to improve model performance and advertising outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate models into our production systems and ensure they scale effectively.
• Conduct A/B testing and other statistical analyses to validate model effectiveness and business impact.
• Continuously monitor model performance and make adjustments as market conditions change.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and deliver comprehensive data-driven solutions.
• Mentor junior scientists and contribute to the team’s knowledge base by staying current with industry trends and advancements in machine learning and data science.

Minimum Qualifications:

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience in developing machine learning models for digital advertising.
• Proficiency in statistical programming languages such as Python, R, or Scala and experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical details into clear business insights.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in predictive modeling techniques and their application to digital advertising problems.
• Experience building Learning to Rank (LTR) models.
• Experience with real-time systems and large-scale data processing technologies like Spark, Hadoop, or Kafka.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Position

The Industry Lead at Cardlytics is responsible for developing and executing a cohesive industry strategy that adds value for our customers. This role involves building and managing VP+ client relationships with key accounts to drive growth, collaborating with cross-functional teams to secure new clients and expand existing relationships, and developing industry thought leadership based on our purchase insights and customer trends. The Industry Lead will also provide regular business reporting to stakeholders, hire and develop top talent, influence the product roadmap by highlighting client needs, and foster a collaborative and motivated team environment.

Experience

• 10 + years + successfully growing revenue through the development of strategic partnerships within digital advertisers w a heavy focus on retail

• Leading high performing enterprise sales teams; hiring, coaching, developing and retaining top talent 

• Revenue management experience- building industry plans, quotas, pipeline management and opex to achieve goals

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver against client problems (driving internal culture, alignment and accountability)

• Conducted annual (ideally multi-year) joint business planning & contracts with clients (and has a playbook) 

• Influencing decisions at the highest level with client (VP+) to create win-win outcomes 

• Partnered with Marketing & Enablement teams to create joint plans to support teams and deliver on client & revenue goals

• Understand financial metrics that drives their clients business, and the pipeline metrics that drives their own business and people 

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$210,000 - $265,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid) or Remote - PST Time Zone

About the Team

At Data Infra, our goal is to streamline Cardlytics data consumption across the entire organization. We understand that accessible, reliable data underpins informed decision-making and innovative problem-solving. By partnering closely with teams, we tailor our solutions to fit their specific workflow needs and make strategic investments in our Data Infra platform to ensure swift access to data. Our approach is designed to not only simplify the way teams interact with data but also to accelerate time-to-insight, enabling Cardlytics teams to harness the full potential of their data for impactful outcomes.

About the Position
Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer, Data Infra to join our team, reporting to the Director Cloud & Data Infra.

As part of our growing team, you'll have the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional partners across the organization, leveraging your expertise to build innovative solutions that drive business impact. By joining us, you'll be at the forefront of shaping Cardlytics' data strategy and contributing to a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with both data science and analytics functions to understand their current processes, identify workflow inefficiencies, and pinpoint areas where Data Infra investments could enhance self-service capabilities within Cardlytics.

• Infrastructure Audit & Assessment: Conduct a comprehensive audit of existing Data Infra, with a focus on identifying gaps that hinder the creation of self-service data environments for analytics teams and evaluating opportunities to improve infrastructure components like storage, processing power, and access mechanisms.

• Proof of Concept (PoC) Development & Evaluation: Design, execute, and evaluate PoCs aimed at addressing identified inefficiencies within the data science and analytics workflows, ensuring that these solutions are scalable and can be effectively rolled out across the organization.

• Technology Assessment: Research and assess technology vendors to determine the most suitable infrastructure upgrades or services that support self-service data needs and facilitate creation of derivative datasets.

• Infrastructure Optimization & Maintenance: Oversee the performance of Data Infra, making continuous improvements to ensure speed, scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency in serving both data science and analytics teams' requirements.

• Process Improvement & Documentation: Streamline existing processes related to data access, model deployment, and dataset creation by implementing automation solutions where appropriate and maintaining comprehensive documentation for ease of understanding and adoption.

• Change Management & Training, Innovation & Future Planning: Lead the transition to new infrastructure components, providing training and support to both analytics teams and software developers. Keep abreast of emerging trends in data infrastructure and MLOps to drive innovation within Data Infra, ensuring that Cardlytics remains at the forefront of data-driven decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a related field

• Data Infrastructure Landscape: In-depth knowledge of modern data infrastructure components, including cloud services, databases (SQL/NoSQL), big data processing frameworks (Spark, Trino or similar), and data management architectures (Hudi, Iceberg or similar).

• Building Data Infrastructure Systems: Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust data infrastructure systems that support the needs of both analytics and machine learning workflows.

• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Strong background in MLOps practices, with experience in automating the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models—from data preparation and model training to deployment and monitoring.

• Experience with Self-Service Data Organizations: A solid understanding of self-service data environments, including the challenges and best practices for catering to diverse user groups within an organization. Familiarity with tools and platforms that enable non-technical users to access and analyze data independently.

• Hands-On Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with the tools and technologies used for building and scaling data infrastructure systems, including SQL/NoSQL databases, ETL processes, data warehousing solutions, and cloud services platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Expertise in Cloud Data Platforms (Snowflake, Databricks or similar): Hands-on experience with these platforms, including their architecture, data storage capabilities, performance tuning, security features, and integration points with other tools in the ecosystem (e.g., Notebooks, MLflow etc.).

• Data Operations Automation: Proficiency in automating data operations to improve efficiency, reduce manual work, and ensure consistent delivery of services within the data infrastructure ecosystem.

• Bachelor's degree in related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or related field

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

$260,000 - $285,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.