Engineering Manager, Ads Planning & Opportunity

Engineering Manager, Ads Planning & Opportunity

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We’re evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we’re excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one - join us! 

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic.

This is a new team in Reddit ads. The team’s mission is to build data intelligence and ML solutions for ads planning, optimization and automation. The eng team consists of backend engineers and machine learning engineers, to collaborate with data scientists, product managers and sales team to build end to end product solutions for advertisers, sales and marketing teams. Some examples projects that the team own:

  • Design, build and improve smart data intelligence services such as traffic and inventory forecasting.
  • Design, build and improve campaign optimization services such as bid recommendations and campaign opportunities.
  • Develop scalable data processing pipelines and data analytics services for advertiser facing products.
  • Build insight tools to better optimize campaign performance and ROI.

As the Engineering Manager of the Ads Planning & Opportunity team, you will research, formulate and execute on our mission to scale and automate our advertising buying experience with data and ML driven solutions. Over the course of building powerful and data driven products such as inventory forecasting, bid recommendations, you and your team will deliver direct impact to drive our ads business growth in the long term. You will enable your teams to push our products to the next level of quality and influence how data insight can drive our business success across the Ads Org. Through this, You will also be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a world-class team of engineers to help Reddit reach its goal of bringing community and belonging to everyone.

 

Your Responsibilities:

  • Develop, drive, and execute the long term vision and technical strategy to support ads planning & opportunity products and tools.
  • Ensure development and deployment of high quality code and softwares.
  • Enable your team to work with PM partner and Sales team to design and build products
  • Enable your team to work with DS partners to prototype, iterate and productionize machine learning models
  • Be a strong mentor and cross-functional advocate for your team
  • Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future.
  • Manage, coach and steer engineer team’s performance
  • Hire backend engineers to execute the team's roadmap.

Who You Might Be:

  • 6+ years of experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that people love.
  • Effective communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into simple ideas depending on the audience.
  • Experience with big data processing and building production services.
  • Preferred experience and comfort with backend and big data technologies. E.g 
    • Kafka, Rabbit-MQ
    • K8s, Terraform
    • Spark, Flink 
    • GCP/BigQuery
    • Tensorflow, Sagemaker
    • API services
  • Experience with Ads or ML application is a big plus
  • Experience with business intelligence or analytics products is a big plus

 

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