About Amazon Advertising:
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

About our team:
Sponsored Brands is on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands while making shopping delightful and personal.

Our team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand performance advertising at scale, helping brands acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifecycle value. This includes building advertiser controls, experiences and recommendations. We enable advertisers to express what they want to achieve, and translate that into high performance advertising strategies. We succeed when advertisers are able to sustainably grow their brand and business at scale with our advertising product(s).

About this Role:
• Lead a team of Software Development Engineers (SDEs).
• Own the critical technologies of this core service, own engineering vision for your team, contribute to overall product vision.
• Define the technological roadmap by partnering with peer SDMs and sister teams.
• Maintain a high bar for operational excellence.
• Drive a welcoming, hardworking, and well-balanced team culture.
• Coach engineers and help them achieve career progression goals.

Key job responsibilities
- You will be responsible for diving deep into technical systems, understanding them well and staying connected to the details.
- You will be responsible for delivering results despite working in an ambiguous environment.
- You will need a strong bias for action and be able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
- You will define strategy and build and execute road maps for the programs you own.
- You will be responsible for overall coordination, quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run.
- Throughout, you will internalize Amazon’s Leadership Principles, and live those into everyday practices to guide your programs to success.