Director of Engineering, Ads

About the role

This role demands someone who can formulate intuition and opinions grounded in first-principles understanding, not just pattern-matching from past playbooks. You'll navigate both technical and product ambiguity simultaneously, leading entirely autonomously rather than relying on a hierarchy to set direction. This is a very fast-paced environment where leading teams to results and delivering resounding impact is the expectation.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering strategy for ad products across multiple teams
• Make real architectural calls - we're actively evolving how ads are served, targeted, and measured in a live-streaming context
• Build and develop your managers, and foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Partner with product, sales, and operations to balance advertiser needs with viewer and creator experience
• Set quality and velocity standards grounded in data

Requirements

• 7+ years managing software engineering teams, with at least 1 of those managing other managers
• A track record of shipping consumer-facing products in a high-growth, fast-changing environment
• Experience growing and retaining engineering talent - not just hiring, but developing people into leaders
• Strong technical chops to earn credibility with senior engineers and make architectural tradeoffs
• Ability to build a strong engineering culture anchored on technical innovation, high velocity, customer impact, and cross-functional collaboration

Qualifications

• Experience building for ads products - ad serving, targeting, measurement, or advertiser-facing tools
• Background working in live or real-time media environments
• Experience operating with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving organizations

Skills

• Technical leadership skills
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Collaborative leadership

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Pay

US, WA, Seattle - Annually $220,100—$297,700 USD
US, CA, San Francisco - Annually $253,100—$342,300 USD

Schedule

San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA