Software Development Manager, Advertiser Controls, Sponsored Brands

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, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

Sponsored Brands is on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands while making shopping delightful and personal.

We enable advertisers to express what they want to achieve, and translate that into high performance advertising strategies. We succeed when advertisers are able to sustainably grow their brand and business at scale with our advertising product(s).

• Lead a team of Software Development Engineers (SDEs).
• Own the critical technologies of this core service, own engineering vision for your team, contribute to overall product vision.
• Define the technological roadmap by partnering with peer SDMs and sister teams.
• Maintain a high bar for operational excellence.
• Drive a welcoming, hardworking, and well-balanced team culture.
• Coach engineers and help them achieve career progression goals.

• You will be responsible for diving deep into technical systems, understanding them well and staying connected to the details.
• You will be responsible for delivering results despite working in an ambiguous environment.
• You will need a strong bias for action and be able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
• You will define strategy and build and execute road maps for the programs you own.
• You will be responsible for overall coordination, quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run.
• Throughout, you will internalize Amazon’s Leadership Principles, and live those into everyday practices to guide your programs to success.- 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

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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.