VP of Engineering

Sightworthy is transforming the way enterprise brands manage social video production. Their platform intelligently identifies content gaps and matches marketers to a diverse network of creative editors, illustrators and animators to shape existing content into videos for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and more. They're poised to become the number one video technology platform for every brand in the world.

Currently working with over 50 paying customers, including GSK, Princess Cruise, Sotheby's, Guardian Life, Nike and Morgan Stanley.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- optimize a scalable modern-briefing tool built for online video
- create a keyword-ing & meta-tagging strategy that scales
- work with visual media that sits on the cutting edge of creative trends
- help a global network of creators get paid
- devise clever strategies to create an on-demand model for video production

This job is perfect for you if you’re:
-excited to validate concepts with potential customers early on, pivot fast and take risks
- thrilled to work on a small, agile team with lots of white space
- pragmatic at the core; values working code over perfect code
- have experience manipulating media and scaling creative enterprise technology
- looking for an opportunity to flex your knowledge of various APIs and open source technologies

You'll need 10+ years of experience with:
- APIs (Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter)
- AWS technologies (S3, Rekognition)
- Video/image processing
- Google Cloud Video Intelligence
- Code deployment (Heroku or other hosted solutions)
- Node.js, PostgreSQL, React

What you’ll get from this experience:
- Opportunity to innovate directly for the end user and solve challenging problems
- Chance to learn how to start your own company, meet investors, and validate ideas
- Working alongside creatives at R/GA headquarters in NYC

We’ve built relationships with some of the biggest brands and marketing partners in the world and are eager to bring a technical leader on to help us get to the next level.