Software Development Manager, Search
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Automated Marketing and Events organization is building the Internet’s largest-scale Search Marketing systems. The team is responsible for a number of business-critical systems that generates, target, measures and optimizes hundreds of millions of search engine ad placements and organic search listings (SERPs). We apply best-in-class digital marketing optimization techniques like search engine optimization (SEO), landing page optimization (LPO), content optimization to enhance Amazon customer shopping journeys and effectively target them with optimized landing page experiences that satisfy their search intent. We routinely solve challenges related to large-scale distributed services, big data systems and web search services. We build keyword management, data infrastructure, business performance management and landing page experimentation systems that maximize returns through discovery of new keywords and products, landing page targeting efficiency and customer experience improvement opportunities. Cutting edge technology and algorithms including data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning are the core of our business. Search Marketing drives a large portion of Amazon’s business, and represents a unique opportunity to drive impact on the company’s bottom line. With essentially full ownership of our own product road map, there is a large R&D component to our work, and strong engineering skills together with sound business understanding and an appetite for innovation are highly valued.
We are looking for a software development manager who is passionate in leading teams to implement robust systems that solve real-world problems, and is motivated by the prospect of multi-million dollar business returns. With full ownership of our own product roadmap, there is a large R&D component to our work, and strong engineering skills together with sound business understanding and an appetite for innovation are highly valued. The ideal candidate for this role is a technical leader who is a tech visionary and a builder at heart. As the leader of this team, you will hire, build and develop a team of software development engineers responsible for developing the technology to optimize customer shopping experience for tens of millions of user queries that happen daily over search engines. You will own the technical direction for the team, and you will be leading key projects from ideation all the way to deployment. You will be working closely with both technical and business leaders to fulfill your mission. Come join us to build the next generation search marketing services and customer experiences!
If you are a visionary technical leader with a passion for driving large-scale business impact through state-of-the-art Search advertising services, cutting-edge ML/LLM models, and onsite content/CX product development on Amazon Retail website. Then apply now and be a key player in shaping the future of Amazon's marketing strategy and programs on our key advertising partners - Google, Microsoft, Meta, adMarketplace, TikTok and Pinterest.
Team wiki: https://w.amazon.com/bin/view/Landing_Page_Experiences
Key job responsibilities
- Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers.
- Work with business leaders and product managers to define team's strategical plans, product vision and requirements.
- Create, prioritize, communicate, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics.
- Work with engineers (SDEs, DEs, BIs) to define technical requirements, architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner.
- Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables.
- Continuously innovate and simplify our software systems and operations.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Manager on our team, you will define and develop next generation Search Marketing systems that improves Amazon's ability to advertise across millions to billions placements on external search engines and optimize customer's end-to-end search journey to drive long-term profitability. This will include working across Big data, Machine learning, real-time Retail CX services and large-scale data infrastructure. Your day will be a mix of leadership, strategy, execution and problem-solving across your 2-pizza team and our broader organization. You will be responsible for driving project success along with fostering a positive, productive team culture, ensuring both technical quality and individual growth. This role requires a visionary technical leader comfortable with dealing with ambiguity to define and develop tech solutions/products that solve high scale, real-world search problems. This will particularly involve handling program management, product strategy thinking and solid technical skills for leading a talented pool of engineers (SDEs, DEs).
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
- Experience in building data management systems, business performance monitoring and managing large scale data sets.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.