Manager, Software Development, Social Marketing

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Social Marketing team at Amazon is seeking an experienced engineering leader
to join our dynamic group. We own Amazon's automated marketing programs across
social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and
more. In this role, you'll lead the development of measurement and reporting
systems that track key marketing performance indicators—including marketing
incrementality, spend elasticity, and campaign performance. These insights
enable partner teams to evaluate program updates and optimize their strategies.
You'll deliver data-driven capabilities to stakeholders worldwide, empowering
them to make informed decisions that drive business impact.

As the Engineering Leader, you will:
- Lead a team of talented engineers focused on scaling our social marketing
capabilities
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing,
and leadership, to align our technical solutions with business objectives
- Collaborate closely with engineering leaders across SMAs to drive custom
service integrations with Amazon
- Influence the team's architecture and strategy, ensuring our systems are
designed to maximize profitability and deliver high-quality ads to our customers
- Leverage emerging technologies to build novel and innovative solutions in the
marketing domain.
- Play a critical role in team's broader technical leadership community,
contributing to long-term strategy and decision-making.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for marketing, a deep understanding of
large-scale distributed systems, and a proven track record of leading
high-performing engineering teams. Experience working with SMAs and data-driven
advertising is a plus.

If you're excited by the challenge of building scaled marketing solutions that
drive business impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join Social
Marketing team at Amazon.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
• Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers focused on scaling our social marketing capabilities
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing, and leadership, to align our technical solutions with business objectives
• Collaborate closely with engineering leaders across SMAs to drive custom service integrations with Amazon
• Influence the team's architecture and strategy, ensuring our systems are designed to maximize profitability and deliver high-quality ads to our customers
• Leverage emerging technologies to build novel and innovative solutions in the marketing domain.
• Play a critical role in team's broader technical leadership community, contributing to long-term strategy and decision-making.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager