Software Engineering Manager, Ads Creative Management

Reposted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote or Hybrid
217K-304K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of fullstack engineers to develop ad products and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include guiding product development, coaching engineers, and enhancing user experiences while utilizing the latest technologies like AI and LLMs.
Summary Generated by Built In
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Team description:

The Ad Creative Management (ACM) team owns one of the most challenging problems for our customers when they are creating an ad campaign. ACM empowers all advertisers to effortlessly strategize, create, and launch optimized ad creatives. Creative is the top contributor to performance for ads, and can often take the most work to get right. ACM builds the foundation for handling assets like images, videos, and headlines, and also owns the user experience of accessing, editing, and generating these assets. ACM also spearheads our org’s investment in advanced tools like generative AI to solve the problems of our customers, as we look to increase performance for, and increase the productivity of, the humans coming to our platform.

We are a full-stack team, leading the product development powering a core pillar of our business. We are looking for a product-focused fullstack engineering leader who will drive the Ad Creative Management team forward and is eager to collaborate across multiple teams and organizations to ensure success for our customers and our business.

Your team will:

  • Build products to acquire, create, launch, and optimize creatives and assets for advertisers
  • Deliver a user experience that’s intuitive for our advertisers as they navigate how to build ads efficiently
  • Apply the latest technologies to the problems of our customers, including LLMs and AI
  • Collaborate closely across all of Reddit Ads while leading on our org’s top priorities
  • Increase performance and decrease effort for advertisers by making better results, and a better experience for our consumer reddit users, easier to achieve

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of fullstack engineers
  • Collaborate with designers and product managers to discover and build new Ad functionality and products. Be a thought leader in this process. 
  • Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast iteration, experimentation, and collaboration.
  • Ensure the long term success of both the product and the growth of our people
  • Participate in and be the ultimate owner of the full development cycle: product ideation, design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be brainstorming, giving feedback on design docs, product specs and mocks, and generally helping out wherever is needed.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams across the entire company to make SMBs successful on reddit
  • Grow your own skills, capabilities, and impact, and care about getting better.

Technologies include

  • Languages: Typescript, Go, Python
  • Frameworks: React, Thrift, Baseplate, Kafka, Airflow
  • Datastores: Postgres, Cassandra, Druid, Redis, BigQuery
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Leadership experience working across multiple teams
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Experience partnering with product managers and designers
  • Knowledge of full stack product development practices (Frontend and Backend)
  • Knowledge of social products, ad products, or advertiser tooling

Benefits:

  • 100% remote (offices based in NY, SF & Chicago if you prefer hybrid/in office)
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Workspace benefits for your home office
  • Personal & Professional development funds
  • Family Planning Support
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
  • 4+ months of paid Parental Leave 
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:
$217,000$303,900 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Top Skills

Airflow
Argo
Baseplate
BigQuery
Cassandra
Docker
Druid
Go
Kafka
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
React
Redis
Thrift
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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