Engineering Manager - Ad Formats Foundation
Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions around their interests. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of communities on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, and quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing our advertising business and now are a sizable ads player with over 1B in revenue. We have multiple ad formats like image/video/carousels/etc that advertisers rely on for their goals. This is where the Ad Formats team comes into play in developing these formats to their V2 to V10 and beyond.
The team builds and evolves ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. They expand ad inventory by enabling ads on new placements, optimize user experience, support the ads/consumer ecosystem to ensure efforts for user growth happen in tandem with ads revenue, and develop infrastructure to scale ad products.
The Engineering Manager (EM) for the Ad Formats Foundations team will lead and manage a team of highly technical engineers across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend domains, focusing on continuously improving the ad formats' common infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability. They will oversee infrastructure updates, tech stack migrations, scalability investments, and compliance needs. The EM will provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices and system stability, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. A key focus will be driving projects related to infrastructure, compliance, and developer efficiency, ensuring the foundation for ad formats remains robust and scalable. Additionally, the EM will manage team resources and ensure projects align with team and company goals.
Your team will focus on...
Scalability investments to support growth of Ad Formats
Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster
Improve reliability and developer efficiency
Modern tech stack migrations
Compliance needs
Responsibilities:
Build and expand a team of frontend, backend, fullstack and mobile engineers.
Collaborate with engineering leaders across the company to discover and build solid foundations for ad products
Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast moving high quality products delivery and iteration.
Ensure the long term success of both product and people growth
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 that either have a dependency on Ad Formats or that the team depends on to ensure area success.
Be nimble in this fast moving space.
Qualifications:
2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
7+ years of experience as a software engineer
Experience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products
Knowledge of full stack product development practices (Frontend and Backend)
Leadership experience collaborating across multiple teams to achieve goals
Knowledge/experience with Ad Tech
Knowledge/experience with social products
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
#LI-Remote
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
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Engineering Manager - Ad Formats Foundation
Reddit has a strong following of users who come to reddit to find content and have deep discussions around their interests. Reddit offers unique and high engagement conversations, we’re the home of communities on the internet. Our communities achieve fun, exciting, and quirky things when they band together. Over the last few years we have been growing our advertising business and now are a sizable ads player with over 1B in revenue. We have multiple ad formats like image/video/carousels/etc that advertisers rely on for their goals. This is where the Ad Formats team comes into play in developing these formats to their V2 to V10 and beyond.
The team builds and evolves ad formats to deliver strong user experiences that align with advertisers marketing goals. They expand ad inventory by enabling ads on new placements, optimize user experience, support the ads/consumer ecosystem to ensure efforts for user growth happen in tandem with ads revenue, and develop infrastructure to scale ad products.
The Engineering Manager (EM) for the Ad Formats Foundations team will lead and manage a team of highly technical engineers across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend domains, focusing on continuously improving the ad formats' common infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability. They will oversee infrastructure updates, tech stack migrations, scalability investments, and compliance needs. The EM will provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices and system stability, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. A key focus will be driving projects related to infrastructure, compliance, and developer efficiency, ensuring the foundation for ad formats remains robust and scalable. Additionally, the EM will manage team resources and ensure projects align with team and company goals.
Your team will focus on...
Scalability investments to support growth of Ad Formats
Build infrastructure to iterate and move faster
Improve reliability and developer efficiency
Modern tech stack migrations
Compliance needs
Responsibilities:
Build and expand a team of frontend, backend, fullstack and mobile engineers.
Collaborate with engineering leaders across the company to discover and build solid foundations for ad products
Maintain and enhance the team culture of fast moving high quality products delivery and iteration.
Ensure the long term success of both product and people growth
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 that either have a dependency on Ad Formats or that the team depends on to ensure area success.
Be nimble in this fast moving space.
Qualifications:
2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
7+ years of experience as a software engineer
Experience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products
Knowledge of full stack product development practices (Frontend and Backend)
Leadership experience collaborating across multiple teams to achieve goals
Knowledge/experience with Ad Tech
Knowledge/experience with social products
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
#LI-Remote
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