Location: 

New York City, Hybrid (3 days per week) 

Who we are:

Doubleverify is the industry's leading media effectiveness platform that leverages AI to drive superior outcomes for global brands. By creating more effective, transparent ad transactions, DV strengthens the digital advertising ecosystem, ensuring a fair value exchange between buyers & sellers of digital media. Hundreds of Fortune 500 advertisers employ our unbiased data & analytics to drive campaign quality & effectiveness, & to maximize return on their digital advertising investments globally.

About the Role:

We are seeking a visionary Vice President of Quality Engineering (QE) to lead our global quality organization & ensure that our products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, & compliance. This executive will define & scale quality strategies, practices, & frameworks across diverse engineering teams, products, & services.As a senior leader, you will own the QE strategy end-to-end: from defining our quality vision & KPIs to building automation-first solutions that integrate seamlessly with our CI/CD pipelines. You will foster a culture of built-in quality, ensuring our systems meet functional, non-functional, compliance, & privacy requirements at scale.

What Youll Do

• Set the vision: Define & implement the company-wide quality engineering strategy, roadmap, & operating model.

• Lead teams: Build, mentor, & inspire a global QE organization spanning test automation, monitoring, & compliance.

• Drive automation: Architect & implement automated solutions for UI, APIs, data pipelines, stream processing, analytics, & performance/reliability testing.

• Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, & TechOps leaders to embed quality practices throughout the SDLC.

• Ensure compliance: Oversee quality frameworks that support privacy, security, accreditation (e.g., MRC, IAB), & global regulatory requirements.

• Measure impact: Define QA&C KPIs, dashboards, & tools to provide transparency on product quality & system health.

• Continuous improvement: Leverage customer feedback, defect data, & system monitoring to implement proactive detection & prevention frameworks.

• Scale processes: Introduce best practices for risk management, incident prevention, & compliance that extend beyond the QE team to the entire organization.

What Were Looking For

• 15+ years of progressive experience in quality engineering or software quality leadership.

• 7+ years in senior leadership roles building & scaling QE teams (2550+ people).

• Proven success in defining & executing QE strategy in large, matrixed tech organizations (AdTech or SaaS experience strongly preferred).

• Deep expertise in automated functional, non-functional, & monitoring solutions for data-intensive & customer-facing platforms.

• Familiarity with digital advertising standards (IAB, MRC) & accreditation processes is highly desirable.

• Experience with modern QE practices: CI/CD pipelines, shift-left testing, quality monitoring, DevOps/TechOps collaboration.

• Strong track record of managing offshore/outsourced teams & vendor partnerships.

• Exposure to frameworks such as CMMi, TMMi, Six Sigma, or ISO 9001 is a plus.

• Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, & executive presence.

Why Join Us

• Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of quality at scale in a global AdTech leader.

• Lead a high-impact organization driving product reliability, compliance, & customer trust.

• Collaborate with top engineering, product, & compliance leaders in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

The successful candidates starting salary will be determined based on a number of non-discriminating factors, including qualifications for the role, level, skills, experience, location, & balancing internal equity relative to peers at DV. The estimated salary range for this role based on the qualifications set forth in the job description is between $190,000.00 - $330,000.00. This role will also be eligible for bonus/commission (as applicable), equity, & benefits. The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description; however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, & recognize that the person we hire may be more or less experienced than this job description as posted.

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