Software Development Manager, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS)

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 166,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to drive innovation in brand measurement and optimization for Amazon Ads. This role will focus on leveraging data to improve advertising campaign performance and managing a high-performing engineering team. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in team management and a passion for solving complex problems.

Benefits

Full range of medical benefits

Total compensation package

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working in engineering teams.
• Experience in recruiting and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of innovative solutions in brand measurement.
• Deliver performance reporting and actionable insights.
• Manage engineering practices for software development life cycle.

Skills

Engineering management

Data analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, customer-focused Software Development Manager to lead the development of innovative solutions in brand measurement and benchmarking. This role will play a pivotal part in helping advertisers measure, analyze, and optimize their brand-building campaigns across Amazon Ads. By delivering performance reporting and actionable insights, our team empowers global advertisers to connect their media investments with real customer outcomes. If you’re passionate about big data and distributed systems, and eager to build innovative products that drive customer trust and fuel new business growth, this role is for you!

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are at the forefront of that explosive growth. We deliver campaign reporting for all of Amazon advertising and produce analytics and reporting insights that are used by advertisers to grow their business every day. We process billions of ad impressions, clicks, and conversion events daily and we invent and evolve our event-driven architectures with AWS to manage the scale of our data growth. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and agile bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

Successful candidates will be enthusiastic about using data to make decisions, have impeccable written and verbal communication skills, and be able to solve complex problems involving concepts such as causal inference. Such candidates will be passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions that navigate multiple points of view to address stakeholder needs. They will become a key part of a high-performing team’s continual growth and evolution.- 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- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.