Senior Engineering Manager, Ads

About Quizlet

At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. We’re a $1B+ learning platform used by two-thirds of U.S. high school students and half of college students, powering over 1 billion learning interactions each week.

We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.

Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.

Quizlet's Product Engineering organization builds the core experiences that help millions of students and teachers achieve their learning goals. We collaborate across teams to achieve user-centric outcomes, focusing on developing intuitive interfaces, engaging learning tools, and robust, scalable systems.

You’ll be joining a passionate group of engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges. Our teams operate with autonomy, embrace experimentation, and are deeply committed to user-centric design. We value transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration at all levels.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building Quizlet’s Ads platform team, a core part of how we sustainably support millions of learners worldwide. This team owns the end-to-end ads stack, including programmatic and direct ads, video ads, SDK and exchange integrations, and partnerships with ad quality and measurement vendors across web, iOS, and Android.

In this role, you’ll lead and grow a high-performing group of engineers while partnering closely with Product, Data, Design, Revenue, and external partners to shape the ads roadmap and execution. You’ll drive engineering excellence in systems that must balance scale, performance, reliability, user experience, and monetization impact. As a senior leader, you’ll stay technically engaged, influencing architecture, guiding complex integrations, and leading initiatives that improve platform robustness and developer velocity.

This role requires comfort operating across multiple platforms and domains, navigating tradeoffs between product experience and revenue goals, and building systems that perform at global scale.

We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position in our New York office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week:
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.

• Lead and directly manage a team of top-notch software engineers responsible for building and operating publisher advertising systems, including ad delivery, targeting, measurement, and platform capabilities across web and mobile
• Partner closely with Product, Data, Revenue, Design, and Ads business teams to define strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for ads and monetization initiatives
• Own execution and delivery across multiple concurrent work streams, balancing revenue impact, user experience, platform reliability, and regulatory requirements
• Drive architectural decisions for high-scale, low-latency systems, including third-party integrations, experimentation frameworks, and platform abstractions
• Champion engineering excellence in areas such as system reliability, performance optimization, observability, and safe rollout practices
• Foster an inclusive, feedback-driven team culture that prioritizes psychological safety, technical growth, and career development
• Navigate ambiguity and cross-functional complexity, proactively unblocking dependencies across product lines, platforms, and external partners

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years leading engineering teams, ideally in a consumer-facing or…