Algorithm Team Lead

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Team Leader on the Bidding Strategies Algo team in our TLV Office youll play a vital role in shaping how Advertisers bid in real-time auctions at massive scale. You will lead the optimization of our existing bidding strategies and the design of new ones formulating bidding problems mathematically applying control-theoretic methods and analyzing the complex dynamics of a closed-loop. By guiding team members and partnering closely with engineering youll turn theoretical insights into robust production solutions. Your work will directly influence advertiser ROI efficiency across thousands of advertisers.

To thrive in this role youll need:

• Advanced academic training (MSc/PhD) with strong grounding in applied mathematics optimization control theory or a related quantitative field
• Strong Algorithmic Problem-Solving Experience (6 years) and2 years of Managerial or Technical Leadership Experience
• Production-Grade Algorithm Engineering Experience
• Experience Driving Measurable Business Impact Through Algorithmic Improvements
• Experience interfacing effectively with engineering teams to deliver complex algorithms into production
• Experience leveraging agent-based coding tools to accelerate development experimentation and code quality

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with Real-Time Bidding Auction Theory

How youll make an impact:

• Lead the optimization of Taboolas existing bidding strategies
• Design and deliver new bidding strategies end-to-end into production
• Drive deep analysis of complex dynamics and closed-loop feedback effects
• Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver robust scalable systems
• Lead and develop algorithm engineers
• Play a part of Taboolas tech organizations growth in the agentic development era

Why Taboola

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here theyll tell you that theyve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. Theyll also share more about:

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Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region 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 Condé 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 Taboolas 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 Taboolas technology to grow audience and revenue enabling Realize to offer unique data specialized algorithms and unmatched scale.

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