Software Development Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search

Amazon • Palo Alto, CA

9d

About The Position

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the
advertising landscape through innovative generative AI technologies,
revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with
brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing
advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence
to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and
optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate
group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI
technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping
experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving
complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join
us in shaping the future of advertising.

This Software Development Manager role will be critical in redesigning how ads
contribute to a personalized, relevant, and inspirational shopping experience,
with the customer value proposition at the forefront.

The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on
building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on
Amazon—such as product detail pages, the homepage, and store-in-store pages—to
drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized, context-aware
advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences, scales across diverse
page types, remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments, and
integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals,
basket-building content, and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision, we
work in close partnership with Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and
growth of SP across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search. We operate
full stack—from backend ads-retail edge services, ads retrieval, and ad auctions
to shopper-facing experiences—all designed to deliver meaningful value.

Curious about our advertising solutions? Discover more about Sponsored Products
and Sponsored Brands to see how we’re helping businesses grow on Amazon.com and
beyond!

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 8+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems, or experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

Nice To Haves

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience building large-scale machine learning models and infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization, or search
• Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
• Strong track record of delivering complex initiatives end-to-end including planning, designing, execution, and operation.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and lead a team of Software Development Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers.
• Develop engineering roadmaps and drive engineering executions for SPB Off-Search ads retrieval with Machine Learning (ML) and GenAI solutions, lead hardware and operational annual planning, to enable multi-surface, placement, and theme monetization and to deliver more relevant, engaged, and personalized ad and shopping experiences on Amazon Stores.
• Foster cross-team collaborations with applied science teams and page experience teams in Off-Search and SPB to define and deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Hire and develop top talent, provide technical and career development guidance to team members within and across the organization.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager