Software Development Manager, CreativeX - Dynamic Creative Optimization

Amazon • New York, NY

2d • $203,400 - $275,200 • Onsite

About The Position

The CreativeX RAPID (Real-time Ad Personalization & Insights Development) team is seeking passionate and talented SDMs to join us. CreativeX is on a mission to enable brands of all sizes and categories to create, serve, measure, and optimize creative content with ease. Our team is responsible for tailoring the visual experience of ads to each context in real-time, leveraging nouvelle technologies such as latent diffusion models, large language models (LLM), reinforced learning (RL), computer vision, and related methods. Our mission is to provide engaging, dynamically optimized creatives with low latencies both on and off Amazon for self-service brand advertisers. We automate the customization of product creatives with real-time catalog data while providing advertisers with the flexibility to customize their creatives according to their preferences.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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 in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Responsibilities

• As a Software Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading a strong team of engineers to innovate and deliver software and infrastructure that powers the Dynamic Creative Optimization.
• Work backwards from the customer to invent new solutions and to improve existing software.
• Work with the product and technical leaders to define the product direction and roadmap.
• Create vision and execution documents. Insist on the high bar for technical documentation and the quality of the developed software.
• Perform hands-on code reviews and other technical deep dives to ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to customers.
• Hire, coach, and mentor software engineers.

Benefits

• 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed