Engineering Manager, Advanced Signals (SWE)
About the role
Role Description
As the Engineering Manager of the Ads Advanced Signals Team at Reddit, you'll lead the team responsible for the APIs, integrations, and tooling that power both inbound and outbound signals for Reddit Ads, which includes helping advertisers
What You’ll Do
Ads Advanced Signals Technical Vision
Your primary mission will be to scale and evolve the APIs, integrations, and tooling that power Reddit’s off-platform signals ecosystem. This includes both collecting high-quality inbound signals and delivering outbound data products that advertisers and partners use to measure and optimize performance. There is significant room to guide technical vision that will have a meaningful impact on Reddit’s ads business.
Execution
You will own the execution of your team’s roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery. You will prioritize both planned projects and emergent asks. You will coach Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. You will identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.
Career Development
You will help your engineers 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.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead a team of engineers building products, APIs, and data integrations for collecting and distributing off-platform signals
- Drive adoption of Reddit’s Conversions API, and associated integrations by creating strong developer experiences
- Own a roadmap spanning inbound signals collection and outbound measurement/reporting capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Data Science, Sales, Solutions, and Business Engineering, to improve advertiser outcomes and drive revenue
- Set team goals and objectives, and track progress toward achieving them
- Identify and develop talent within the team and provide mentorship and career development opportunities
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience lea