PRODUCT MANAGER SOFTWARE (H/F)

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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.

Tens of billions of dollars will be spent on advertising this year, and Amazon Sponsored Products and Brands is increasingly grabbing a larger and larger piece of the pie. We are looking for an exceptional Software Development Manager to lead the engineering teams building the ad serving and rendering services for our next generation, cost-per-click ad network.

Our mission is to enhance discoverability for all products sold online and connect Amazon customers with sellers and selection anywhere. As a Software Development Manager, you will lead teams solving a multi-dimensional optimization problem—choosing ads for a given context that are relevant and useful to shopping customers, deliver the best value for merchant advertisers, and meet a high quality bar for publishers. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the Amazon vision.

Lead and develop a team of talented software engineers building scalable, high-performance systems that handle billions of requests per day while maintaining millisecond response latencies and strict SLA requirements

Drive technical vision and architecture for services that are flexible, reliable, and maintainable, operating on one of the world's largest product catalogs

Foster a culture of innovation where your team experiments, iterates pragmatically, and simplifies complex problems to deliver customer value

Partner cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver business impact

Mentor and grow engineers to strengthen their technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and understanding of computer science fundamentals

Own operational excellence ensuring your team's systems meet performance, reliability, and quality standards while operating on massive datasets using distributed frameworks

Make data-driven decisions balancing the needs of customers, advertisers, and publishers while driving quantifiable revenue impact

Use Gen AI tools to speed delivery and natively improve the ad serving pipeline via LLMs

The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in distributed systems, the vision to incorporate Gen AI tools in the day to day activities of the team and natively to improve customer or shopper experience, and a proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams. You combine technical depth with excellent people management skills and a customer-focused mindset. 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
• Gen AI Proficiency - Ability to motivate and direct the team to use Gen AI tools efficiently to speed delivery along with natively improving the ad serving pipeline for shoppers and advertisers alike.