Job summary
How can Amazon improve the advertising experience for customers around the world? How can we help advertisers and customers find each other in a meaningful way? Amazon Ads creates and transforms the connection between retailers/service providers and customers. Join the Cross Product Performance Team to lead product solutions that allow us to solve this through technology, scale and automation. If you are passionate about developing analytical solutions to solve business problems, and are looking for a team that drives results to help influence Amazon business decisions, this is the right place for you.

Our team is looking for a Software Development Manager who can help us to build the next generation of reporting tools that allow us to capture new signals about advertising effectiveness and success, drive data-driven, programmatic decision making, and create efficiency that streamlines the day to day activities of our users. Our mission is to make marketers successful on Amazon; we do this by detecting and creating opportunities for users to be smarter about how to manage and grow their advertising returning on investment. As part of our team you will be hiring and developing a team of engineers, and collaborating with product managers and UX designers to deliver reporting products. You will work directly with your customers to discover new opportunities to save time and drive results. The ideal candidate will be able to effectively project-manage and prioritise across multiple tasks, exhibit strong problem solving skills and be ready to jump into a fast-paced, dynamic and fun environment.

While most of our existing team is based in Edinburgh, we’re expanding to create a new team with people based in London/Paris/Luxembourg so we’re flexible provided you’re near one of those locations.

Key job responsibilities

• You hire, develop and lead a team of world-class software engineers working on visually rich reporting applications.
• You thrive in environments where the solution is not well defined. You deliver software that adapts.
• You deliver quickly and incrementally. You may not have the perfect solution out of the gate, but you iterate based on what you’ve learned.
• You are hands on, and lead by example. You set the bar for engineering excellence for you team, and teams around you.
• You focus on simplification. You actively seek to remove complexity.
• You are close to customers, and focus acutely on problems worth solving. That means you don’t drive to what customers say they need but rather drive toward what brings them value.
• You balance trade-offs and priorities to allow your team to deliver and add value in the short term, while not sacrificing or losing sight of the long-term view

About the team

We make reporting products that provide a clear and actionable view of how advertising campaigns are performing. As with all Amazon teams we care about the scalability, performance and operational excellence of our service, but beyond this we value people who understand that ease of use makes a meaningful difference to the customer experience in a complex data-driven domain like advertising.

We serve both external customers and their internal account teams where our products serve as the common-ground to discuss the details of their business and advertising performance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience in project management of complex deliverables with limited resources
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• Experience hiring and developing engineering talent
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• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
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• Excellent interpersonal communication; strong verbal and written skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

These are nice to have, but not a requirement:

• Experience using AWS services.
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with online distributed systems and platform infrastructure design and implementation