Software Development Manager, Products and Brands

Position: Software Development Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands
Location: New York

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About Sponsored Products and Brands
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across  and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

About our team

The SPB Offsite team builds solutions to extend campaigns to reach customers off the store and extend shopping experiences on third party sites where shoppers search and discover products. We use industry leading machine learning, high scale low latency systems, and AI technologies to create better sponsored customer experiences off the store. This role will have deep interest in building the next innovations in ad tech and shopping wherever shoppers go.

You will work with external and internal partners to connect ad tech systems, understand customers, and drive results at scale.  You are a deeply technical leader who operates with a GenAI first approach to product, engineering, and science based solutions.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering needs across ad systems and models that power sponsored products ads for offsite shopping experiences as a true Amazonian Owner
- Maintain core offsite ad serving infrastructure, reporting, and data pipelines.
- Hire and develop SDE's.
- Collaborate with product, science, and engineering teams across SPB and ads to make the right trade-off decisions to build, partner, or build together to scale shopping experiences offsite.

Your contributions will be highly visible and instrumental in hitting goals carried by Amazon's leadership team (S-Team). A diverse group of stakeholders will rely on your vision and messaging, including advertisers, agencies, and internal ad sales and operations teams.

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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