DESCRIPTION
We're seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to work on how we bring together measurement and planning for reach across all Amazon Advertising for both internal and external customers. The person in this position will play a significant leadership role in our business and product teams. In this role, you will focus on establishing a media planning mechanism across all Amazon Advertising products along with playing a key role in connecting these plans to our reach reporting capabilities for our agencies and advertisers.
The charter of the team is focused on reach measurement and planning for Amazon advertising products and media channels. As advertisers diversify their digital advertising portfolios through multiple channels to reach the largest number of potential customers, they want a holistic view of their audience reach and performance across those channels. The team will build solutions to allow advertisers to access reach potential and help them plan their campaigns on Amazon.
Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leader with excellent analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data processing platform.
- Build, manage, and develop innovative engineers including making hiring recommendations and guiding and mentoring engineers and product and program managers within and outside of the team.
- Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision, invent or incorporate in new technologies when needed.
- Ensure high quality design reviews that meet business and architectural goals and drive critical feedback on architecture and design issues.
- Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met.
- Build relationships with software development managers, engineers, product managers and technical program managers across upstream and downstream teams to influence product development for advertising traffic data.
- Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and interact with customers, other leaders, and your team to construct your plan.
About the team
The Reach Planning and Measurement team provides reach insights to advertisers and their agents through user interfaces and programmatic integrations via APIs. We provide reach and frequency planning and measurement for all Amazon ad products and incremental reach between Amazon Ads and third party publishers. We connect what reach is planned to what is bought and measured through a close-loop solution.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.