Software Development Manager, Creative Advertiser Experiences

Lead a team of engineers to design, build and operate full stack applications.

• Establish a clear tech vision for your team, innovate to deliver for our customers.
• Articulate behaviors that can grow careers. Your people development radar is always on.
• Quickly dissect the nuances of trade-offs, leading 2-way door decisions, making conscious choices and overcoming challenges.
• Constructively parse, ingest, challenge and reframe proposals / plans for the better.
• Adjust gracefully to change while maintaining team energy and focus.

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
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Monica - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

We own both sides of the ad creative experience for Amazon DSP, the advertiser experience (AX) where advertisers build and manage creatives across display, video, and streaming TV, and the customer experience (CX) where those creatives render and deliver personalized content to hundreds of millions of shoppers at impression time. We operate the full creative lifecycle from authoring through real-time serving, and are actively deploying agentic AI systems that autonomously generate, validate, and activate creatives across both surfaces.

About the team: The team owns the creative authoring and activation platform that powers how advertisers create and deploy ad creatives across video, and streaming TV. The team operates the central orchestration framework, advertiser-facing UIs, bulk upload services scale across WW. The team is at an inflection point, expanding from infrastructure into full advertiser experience ownership - consolidating a fragmented template landscape into reusable primitives, taking on end-to-end video creative tooling for OLV and STV formats, and building a new brand asset management platform that lets advertisers provide brand assets once and activate them across all campaigns.