Director of Engineering, Ads
About The Position
Ads on Twitch aren't like ads anywhere else. They happen live, in front of communities that are actively engaged and they directly fund the creators those communities love. This is a genuinely unsolved problem: you won't be optimizing a mature system, you'll be defining what the next generation of live-stream advertising looks like. We're looking for an engineering leader to run multiple teams building ad experiences that feel native to live streaming. You'll own the technical vision for how ads work on Twitch and lead the org to ship it. Your work will have direct revenue impact and visibility to senior leadership - it shows up on the P&L. The org is at a stage where your leadership decisions will shape its culture for years, and you'll work alongside strong cross-functional partners who care deeply about creators. 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.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering team management experience
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
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
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
