Engineering Manager, Ads Quality

DoorDash USA•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

About the Team The mission of the Ads Quality team is to show the most relevant ads and promotions to our users across all our verticals, ad formats for both search (query context) and discovery experiences. This team owns the full lifecycle of the ads delivery funnel—from large-scale retrieval to deep-learning-based ranking. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with hands-on experience in modern machine learning and recommendation systems to lead a team that develops advanced machine learning models to show the most engaging and relevant promoted content to the users. Ads Quality is a critical part of the Ads Delivery funnel with deep personalization playing a central role. About the Role Manage a growing team of ML and backend engineers Continue to build a team that can support end-to-end execution of ranking, retrieval, GenAI initiatives for deeply personalized promoted content. Support a culture of analytical rigor and systems understanding. Understand and advocate for the needs of Consumers, Advertisers and Doordash Work closely with product managers on roadmap development, set the technical direction Coach and mentor team members and help them develop their career path and achieve their career goals You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning engineers delivering end-to-end ML solutions Work with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders across DoorDash to define the roadmap and vision for the team to drive strong business impact. Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, first-principles thinking and teamwork Build an outstanding team by coaching and empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards Scale the team by developing internal, and attracting top external talent

Requirements

M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
5+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale
2+ years of leadership experience leading 6+ member teams
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with XFN teams across product, data science and business
Ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ads domain or Foundation models is a big plus

Responsibilities

Manage a growing team of ML and backend engineers
Continue to build a team that can support end-to-end execution of ranking, retrieval, GenAI initiatives for deeply personalized promoted content.
Support a culture of analytical rigor and systems understanding.
Understand and advocate for the needs of Consumers, Advertisers and Doordash
Work closely with product managers on roadmap development, set the technical direction
Coach and mentor team members and help them develop their career path and achieve their career goals
Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning engineers delivering end-to-end ML solutions
Work with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders across DoorDash to define the roadmap and vision for the team to drive strong business impact.
Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, first-principles thinking and teamwork
Build an outstanding team by coaching and empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards
Scale the team by developing internal, and attracting top external talent

Benefits

a 401(k) plan with employer matching
16 weeks of paid parental leave
wellness benefits
commuter benefits match
paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
medical, dental, and vision benefits
11 paid holidays
disability and basic life insurance
family-forming assistance
a mental health program