Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Measurement

The Ads Measurement team charter covers Signals, Identity, Attribution, Performance Measurement and 3rd party integrations. We are looking for a Sr Engineering Manager in ML to build Reddit’s Experimentation-based and Machine Learning-based performance measurement products. As Reddit's first Performance Measurement Engineering Manager you will apply your strong understanding of causal inference techniques and experimental design, track record of leveraging machine learning to solve business problems, as well as your passion for advertising to build products that add value to Reddit's advertisers.

As online advertising transitions away from deterministic user level data, there is a need for building a new class of privacy safe performance measurement products.  At the core, these products combine traditional user level signals, randomized experiments, and ML models to prove to advertisers the value of advertising on Reddit. Products in this category include Conversion Lift, Brand Lift, Modeled Conversions, and other emerging forms of aggregate attributions.

This opportunity provides a platform for high impact and personal growth and presents very unique product and technical challenges that will put you at the forefront of the next generation of ads measurement products.  

What You’ll Do

Ads Performance Measurement Technical Vision

Your primary mission will be to build and uplevel Lift products and Measurement Modeling products so that Reddit’sAds Performance Measurement can scale with our ads business over the next several years. There is plenty of room for guiding and setting technical vision that will have a huge impact on our business. 

Execution

You will own the execution of your team’s roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery. You will ruthlessly prioritize both planned projects and emergent asks. You will coach EMs & Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. You will identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.

Recruiting

Ads Performance Measurement will grow quickly during your tenure at Reddit, and our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams. You will identify your team’s needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates. You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit. 

Career Development

You will help your engineers & managers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You will constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.

Quality Control

You will work with your team to develop processes and tooling that constantly improve the quality of our products and systems, ensuring that they meet product requirements, customer needs, and SLAs.

Organizational Alignment

You will serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals. You will become an expert in the digital ads business and our customer needs. You will participate in and challenge prioritization decisions. You will communicate your team’s work and set expectations with external stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ year of supporting and growing engineering teams - ideally hiring and scaling a team over 100% growth
• Experience with building and growing Ads Measurement Experiment Methodology and Machine Learning Models based performance measurement products
• Experience managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development
• Experience building 0->1 Products and Scaling Existing Product lines
• You're technical, enough to solve almost any problem your team has yourself, but you prefer to guide your team into solving them
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with data driven/informed decision making

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with and growing senior engineers 
• Previous exposure to developing and executing Multi Year Product Strategies
• Passionate about building healthy and highly productive teams and collaborating with XFN stakeholders (PM, PMM, DS, Sales etc)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

Last updated on Jul 29, 2024