About Us

Glow provides amazing value and first class service to well over 80 sophisticated, performance customers around the world and many global agencies. Glow has been working with the Facebook Ads API since its very early Alpha mid-2009.

Our Team

Damian

Founder & CEO

Damian Routley has more than 15 years of experience in the digital advertising space. Prior to founding Glow Digital Media in 2008, he served as Client Services Director at TradeDoubler, a UK based provider of digital marketing services that serves over 138,000 publishers spanning 18 countries.

Earlier in his career, he worked as Group Director at The Search Works, where he oversaw the paid search and SEO strategy for a diverse range of clients, and before that as Account Director for Enhance Media, an online provider of SEM services for blue-chip clients, such as T-Mobile, PwC, Capgemini, and AXA.

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David

VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships, U.S.

David Wamsley is both an ad tech pioneer and a 15-year veteran of the high-tech startup world. After working in the travel and gaming verticals for both Hilton Hotels and Sega of America, he founded Adauction.com, the first online advertising exchange to offer dynamic pricing and bidding for digital media, and Campsix, a venture backed, full-service incubator that focused on SaaS startups.

Most recently, David was a co-founder of GravityEight, a health and wellbeing consumer internet application that integrated with Nike Plus, Fitbit, the ZEO Sleep Machine, and the Facebook API.

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Mona

Head of Operations

Mona Parmar has worked in the digital advertising space for over 7 years. Prior to joining Glow, she spent years helping clients at both TradeDoubler and Search Works achieve success with their digital campaigns.

At Glow, Mona is responsible for the on-boarding of new clients, working with them to achieve success with their Facebook campaigns, as well as educating them on Facebook best practices. She also works closely with the product and development teams to identify client and market requirements needed to help shape the product road map.

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Harel

CTO

Harel Malka has been working in the software and internet industries since 1996 as a developer, systems architect, producer, and technical strategist, helping many companies reach their successful product launch. He has held positions in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and London.

In 2003, Harel founded FreeCRM.com, a successful online CRM application, and co-founded the internet telephony start-up Kadoink in 2006. He also worked on projects for the BBC and Social Services. Harel joined Glow in 2009 to lead the technical arm of the company and is the architect behind the Glow Machine.

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Jon

Head of Sales EMEA

Jon Lawford is a highly experienced sales professional with 15+ years in online display advertising, search engine marketing, and social media. Prior to joining Glow, he worked for Real Media 24/7, Mediaplex, and Adform where he acquired the skills needed to help clients develop solid strategies for expanding their online marketing initiatives.

Jon has a vast network within the digital marketing community and is regarded as one of the leading figures in the industry. He has a proven track record for delivering solutions that increase ROI and lower CPA targets.

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Douglas

Head of Data Science

Douglas McIlwraith, Ph.D., has been in the technology arena for over 10 years, and has worked in a wide variety of industry roles, from the early days of internet hosting to the more recent high-tech fields of mobile/ubiquitous computing and online advertising.

A specialist in data science, Douglas adds value to applications through a deep understanding of what data to store, how to represent it, and how to build models which utilize this information to support business decision processes. At Glow, Douglas is responsible for the managing the online "decisioning stack" and providing strategic direction to both clients, and to the company's business units.

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Investors

Florian Heinemann

Founding Partner, Project A Ventures

Florian Heinemann is co-founder and Managing Director of Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was managing director of Rocket Internet, where his main focus was TopTarif, eDarling, and Zalando/Bigfoot. Prior to Rocket, Florian was co-founder and managing director of JustBooks/AbeBooks, which was acquired in 2002 by Amazon.

Florian also co-led the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove, which was acquired by Verisign. Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 40 startups, including, AdScale, Ladenzeile, Netmoms, and Tradoria.

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Simon Blakey

Director, Avonmore Developments

Simon Blakey has been a successful early-stage investor since 2000 and has invested in 18 businesses and realised three profitable exits to date; the latest being the sale of Commerce Decisions Ltd (where he was the initial lead investor) to Qinetic.

Co-investing with his brother, Michael Blakey, Simon is responsible for deal negotiations and ongoing management of their interests and he sits on the board of several of their companies. In addition to his business interests, Simon serves on the management board of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

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We're Hiring

Glow is on a rapid growth curve and we are currently looking to assemble a super team of talent to help us build our social advertising platform in our West end headquarters office in London. Successful candidates will play a pivotal role in building the company as we go forward, and we'll do everything we can to make you feel at home. We have excellent challenges from the UI, through to the back end, and working with clients.

To apply, please send us a CV or a letter or just a note telling us we'll be insane not to hire you: careers@thisisglow.com

Please, no recruiters or remote workers.

LONDON

Python & JavaScript Developer

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Senior Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by large brands and agencies.

Requirements:

Motivation and great attitude
Love what you do
Knowledge of Python and/or JavaScript
Be fearless when things get BIG

LONDON / LOS ANGELES, CA

Campaign Manager

Responsible for running social media advertising campaigns on the Glow platform. Campaign Managers are tasked with proactively optimizing and managing campaigns, effectively communicating with customers and ultimately driving campaign performance. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years experience in online marketing. Candidates are expected to be analytical, creative, intuitive, driven and ready for a real start-up ride.

Requirements:

Ability to work well with Clients, Sales, Product Development and Engineering.
Must be well versed with Excel, and pivot tables.
Must have social media running in your blood stream and know Facebook inside and out.
Important to have a can do attitude and be smarter than the average bear.