Software Development Manager - Social Advertising at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

The Social Advertising team owns Amazon's automated advertising on Social Media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Our mission is to understand our customers in these social settings to create engaging and relevant ads that delight customers by helping them find the products and Amazon services they want (even when they didn't already know they wanted them). We are responsible for identifying, experimenting with, and scaling social media advertising opportunities that generate immediate and long-term value for Amazon. We are focused on building automated advertising programs, currently live in 12 countries that drive efficiency at scale with WW parity. We aggressively experiment with new and emerging social networks to unlock new advertising opportunities that can be scaled.

Our engineering team builds self-optimizing, ad personalization engines that leverage integrated Machine Learning, massive data processing and adaptive algorithms to deliver ad performance. We use Social Graph signals and closed loop optimization to power our advertising engine. As a part of our team, you will have a chance to have a ground-up impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers, through the leadership of a team of engineers focused on scaling social advertising. We build large scale, distributed systems using multiple AWS services and designed from the ground up to make extensive use of Machine Learning and Social Graph data.
 

We're seeking a Software Development Manager to lead in a fast-paced environment, guiding a team of smart software engineers to architect and develop the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features. We care about both delighting customers and high quality software; we dont sacrifice one for the other. Were looking for someone with a demonstrated track record of hiring and leading teams of software development engineers to build and run highly-scalable, global software solutions.


In this role, you will:
· Define the strategy and roadmap for your team
· Hire and develop the industrys best talent to build a strong and well-balanced team
· Work across the organization, including external partners to deliver the best in-class advertisements to our customers while balancing critical business objectives
· Build software that easily extends to meet the rapidly growing business of advertising on social media channels

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