Software Engineering Manager, Ads Creative Management

Reddit, Inc.; Remote; CAD 298,000 - 419,000; Full time

Job summary

A major social media company is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to oversee the Ads Creative Management team. This remote role requires strong leadership skills and experience in software engineering, focusing on enhancing ad functionalities. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with product managers and designers, driving innovation and improving user experiences. With a competitive salary range of $217,000 - $303,900 USD, this position encourages professional growth and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Generous time off for vacation

Parental leave

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience partnering with product managers and designers.
• Knowledge of full-stack product development practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of full-stack engineers.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers.
• Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast iteration.

Skills

Leadership experience

Software Engineering

Collaboration

Full-stack development

Knowledge of social products

Tools

Typescript

Go

Python

Job description

Software Engineering Manager, Ads Creative Management

Remote - United States

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Ad Creative Management (ACM) team owns one of the most challenging problems for our customers when they are creating an ad campaign. ACM empowers all advertisers to effortlessly strategize, create, and launch optimized ad creatives. Creative is the top contributor to performance for ads, and can often take the most work to get right. ACM builds the foundation for handling assets like images, videos, and headlines, and also owns the user experience of accessing, editing, and generating these assets. ACM also spearheads our org’s investment in advanced tools like generative AI to solve the problems of our customers, as we look to increase performance for, and increase the productivity of, the humans coming to our platform.

We are a full‑stack team, leading the product development powering a core pillar of our business. We are looking for a product-focused full‑stack engineering leader who will drive the Ad Creative Management team forward and is eager to collaborate across multiple teams and organizations to ensure success for our customers and our business.

Your Team Will

• Build products to acquire, create, launch, and optimize creatives and assets for advertisers.
• Deliver a user experience that’s intuitive for our advertisers as they navigate how to build ads efficiently.
• Apply the latest technologies to the problems of our customers, including LLMs and AI.
• Collaborate closely across all of Reddit Ads while leading on our org’s top priorities.
• Increase performance and decrease effort for advertisers by making better results, and a better experience for our consumer Reddit users, easier to achieve.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of full‑stack engineers.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to discover and build new Ad functionality and products. Be a thought leader in this process.
• Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast iteration, experimentation, and collaboration.
• Ensure the long‑term success of both the product and the growth of our people.
• Participate in and be the ultimate owner of the full development cycle: product ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be brainstorming, giving feedback on design docs, product specs and mocks, and generally helping out wherever is needed.
• Collaborate with multiple teams across the entire company to help SMBs succeed on Reddit.
• Grow your own skills, capabilities, and impact, and care about getting better.

Technologies

• Languages: Typescript, Go, Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership experience working across multiple teams.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience partnering with product managers and designers.
• Knowledge of full‑stack product development practices (frontend and backend).
• Knowledge of social products, ad products, or advertiser tooling.
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k with Employer Match.
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support.
• Family Planning Support.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD.

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