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What is Amazon Advertising?
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of devices (Kindles, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, mobile, Twitch, and more). 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, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place.
What is a Demand Side Platform (DSP)?
A DSP is a web-based order management system for programmatic ad campaigns. Advertisers create and execute campaigns by entering when to run a campaign, setting targeting criteria to find the right audience, setting bid prices, selecting whether to optimize for clicks, sales, or other metrics, and more. Advertisers interact directly through our website or programmatic APIs. Customers can update campaigns one at a time or in bulk to scale across thousands of campaigns.
What does DSP Campaign Management, the hiring team, do?
The Campaign Management team within Amazon Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazon's advertising business. We own the campaign and creative management platforms for Amazon's Demand Side Platform (DSP), which allow sophisticated customers - agency traders and direct advertisers of all sizes to buy advertising across Amazon's multi-channel ad network in a few clicks. The teams vision is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness for customers - agency traders and direct advertisers, creating and managing campaigns and creatives across the Amazon Advertising DSP. This team owns the Campaign Management program that seeks to enable efficient and effective campaign creation and management to simplify various complex segmentation while maintaining and improving upon traders ability to delivery results via high performant advertising campaigns. Marketers interact through our website and/or programmatic APIs and get enterprise-grade access (ex. 100+ campaign controls, 150+ metrics, 15 million+ placement choices, 1000+ campaigns/customer/day).
What does the technical stack look like?
Our browser-based advertising portal is built with a combination of ReactJS, Javascript, Java and REST running on AWS using EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Elastic Search and other AWS services.
What is the Campaign Management team looking for?
Our vision is to become the #1 DSP of choice for marketers for all of their advertising needs in the next three years. Building a sophisticated campaign management console for marketers is a key part of the strategy. We are looking for a Software Development Manager who can own this strategy, define & execute a vision with their engineering team and in partnership with supporting product managers. We expect to deliver many different products & features in the DSP that make it easy for marketers to plan, build, execute, analyze and optimize their advertising campaigns.
If I were hired, what would I be working on?
With our team you'll get the opportunity to own major deliverables building out the DSP. You'll work with product owners, UX designers, Technical Program Managers (TPMs), Software Development Engineers (SDE), and Front End Engineers (FEE) to scope, design, execute, test and launch new features to simplify, automate, and reduce the effort to create and optimize ad campaigns. Our team is continuing to grow and we need to a re-examine our existing architecture and define a bold vision for the next phase focused on ease of use, scaling and developer agility. You will have the opportunity to operate in both start-up and more mature business environments, be truth seeking, and be willing to not only execute strategically, but be willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done yourself. No idea is too big for you to consider, and no task is too small for you to deliver on.
Why should I join your team?
Be a part of a team that is rapidly adapting to an ever-changing digital advertising landscape. We have many new, exciting major projects on the horizon, across all parts of the tech stack, that you will play a key role in executing. We are constantly in touch with our customers to not only understand what they need today but predict where they're going tomorrow and build software that can handle it all. Our overarching mission is to create a best in class campaign management experience. We will simplify, automate and reduce effort at every turn for our advertising customers to put the right ad in front of the right audience at the right time in a cost effective manner. Our customers have high expectations of Amazon and we're ready for you to join us on the journey of exceeding those expectations and delivering products that customers love!
Job Responsibilities:
• You will help the Campaign Management engineering teams define, build and rollout advertising solutions
• Owning projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements
• You will tackle challenging problems and coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure our goals are met
Impact and Career Growth:
• Build the next generation of Advertising platforms for Amazon
• Opportunity to grow and broaden your management and technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation
• Have the ability to experiment autonomously with meaningful projects
We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.
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