Software Dev Manager, Display Ad Formats

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising offering a rich array of digital advertising with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on across our other owned and operated sites on other high quality sites across the web and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do including advertising. If youre interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique world-class advertising product with a relentless focus on the customer youve come to the right place.

Key job responsibilities
As the Software Dev Manager youll manage a team that can effectively translate business needs into workable technology solutions scale both technologically and operationally. You will partner with business experts engineers UX and scientists by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval low latency and high throughput distributed systems deep learning inference systems and fault-tolerant application hosting frameworks. Successful candidates will have an established track record of delivery of complex software systems excellent project management skills keen technical aptitude solid communication skills and be driven to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

1) Own successful delivery of large high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects.
2) Drive strategic cross-functional planning leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps dependency identifications and resourcing plans.
3) Manage bottlenecks provide escalation management anticipate and make trade-offs balance the business needs versus technical constraints and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences.

About the team
The Display Ad Formats team is responsible for designing developing and optimizing the visual and functional elements of advertising formats across multiple advertising products. This team focuses on creating innovative and effective ad experiences that balance advertiser goals with user experience. We work on everything from standard display units to rich media formats video implementations and native advertising solutions ensuring these formats drive engagement while maintaining platform performance and user satisfaction.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.