Job ID: 2809754 | Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03
Apply nowDESCRIPTIONDo you enjoy leading large engineering teams to build cutting-edge technology solutions that directly impact the business? Do you enjoy conceptualizing new state-of-the-art products that delight customers and set new industry benchmarks? Do you enjoy directly interfacing with the customers while owning your products end to end?
Amazon is building a world class advertising business and we are at the forefront of that explosive growth. Amazon Advertising offers a rich array of digital advertising solutions to help our customers on their shopping journey, and enable other businesses to effectively market their brands and products. We help advertisers reach customers on Amazon.com, across all our owned and operated businesses including Prime Video, Kindle, and mobile devices, as well as third-party destinations. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising.
A key driver for our growth is our understanding of the needs of advanced marketers. Advanced marketers are agencies and self-service advertisers with scaled marketing needs, as they manage a large portfolio of clients, products, campaigns or brands. Our team owns performance reporting and analytics for all of Amazon Advertising which the advertisers rely on to make both short-term and long-term marketing decisions. Our systems ingest billions of performance signals every day, and power a variety of customer solutions and applications.
In this role, you will lead multiple agile engineering teams with end-to-end ownership of technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and autonomy to ensure success. You will own the public APIs for performance reporting and analytics, our streaming architectures with AWS, and invent new scaled mechanisms for analytics and performance reporting to help advertisers grow their business on Amazon Ads.
Successful candidates will have a background in software development preferably with a Computer Science or related degree. They are detail-oriented and customer-oriented, and have excellent problem solving abilities. They are a confident people manager with a track record of growing high performance teams.
Key job responsibilities
* Engage with external customers, agencies, and advertisers to understand their scaled marketing needs
* Invent new scaled mechanisms for customers to access and analyze performance data
* Enable product and business teams to launch new measurement features
* Build and grow a strong team of leaders
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
- Experience in the advertising industry
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