Software Development Manager, Amazon Books Ads

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Books was Amazon's first product, and today, Books Ads is where that legacy meets the frontier of advertising technology. We're building the ad products that help every book advertiser in the world reach their ideal reader, and we're doing it across some of Amazon's most beloved surfaces: Amazon Book Store, Kindle App, Kindle eInk devices, and Audible.

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Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• PREFERRED
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect
• describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their
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Responsibilities

• Lead a strong team of engineers to innovate and deliver software and infrastructure that powers Books Ads monetization.
• Work backwards from the customer to invent new solutions and to improve existing software.
• Work with the product and technical leaders to define the product direction and roadmap.
• Create vision and execution documents.
• Insist on the high bar for technical documentation and the quality of the developed software.
• Perform hands-on code reviews and other technical deep dives to ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to customers.
• Hire, coach, and mentor software engineers.
• A day in the life
• You'll own the full ads stack across four surfaces from auction participation and ad serving on Kindle eInk to ADSP demand integration on Audible.
• You'll build at the intersection of AI and advertising leveraging LLM-based sourcing, conversion-optimized personalization embeddings, and autonomous campaign systems purpose-built for book advertisers.
• You'll work on greenfield problems: How do you measure the lifetime value of a reader across print, eBook, and audiobook?
• How do you serve ads in a distraction-free reading environment without degrading CX?

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