SDM, Amazon Ads - Tax and Promotions, Advertising Core Services

DESCRIPTION

Ads Billing: Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon, empowering Amazon Sellers, Vendors, Authors, and Publishers to boost their product reach and sales through performance and display advertising. The Advertising billing platform is an enabler for Sponsored and Display Ads worldwide rapid growth that generates 5MM accurate, timely, and tax-compliant invoices per month and offers a singular platform to manage all of the billing needs globally which includes invoicing, taxation, accounting automation, budgets, promotions, payments, and Billing Advertiser Experience with best in class UX and Public APIs. As a part of this high-energy, entrepreneurial team you will get an opportunity to innovate on solutions that control the levers of our advertisers' experience and have the satisfaction of seeing your work impacting multiple advertising business.

As the Software Development Manager leading the Tax and Promotions Team (TAP) within Amazon's Ads Billing organization, you will drive critical initiatives that power the rapid growth of Amazon's global advertising business. Your team will be responsible for developing and maintaining automation of tax software for invoicing, while also implementing innovative promotional strategies that directly impact revenue and advertiser retention. You'll lead complex projects such as expanding government e-invoicing capabilities to new jurisdictions and improving digital sales tax experiences. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to tackle challenging technical problems at a global scale, navigating the complexities of international tax regulations and promotional structures. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives, driving projects that have multi-million dollar impacts on Amazon's advertising revenue. Your leadership will be crucial in fostering a culture of innovation within the team, as you help build and scale solutions that enable Amazon Advertising's continued global expansion while ensuring compliance with diverse regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

Key job responsibilities
* Keep your team fully staffed. Track staffing and hiring metrics and work closely with recruiting teams to maintain a full engineering team.
* Develop your team members. Ensure everyone on your team has clearly documented personal, team, and business goals. Track progress to those goals. Provide opportunities for career growth both within and outside of your team.
* Build operational excellence. Prioritize operational excellence (OE). Reduce the amount of time your team members spend on operational issues. Create OE dashboards for increased visibility. Ensure OE practices are documented and followed.
* Communicate your business priorities. Understand your customer and partner priorities. Create and own team tenets, and use them to guide your decisions and approaches. Own your engineering roadmap. Manage stakeholder expectations. Create a three year plan for engineering (3YP) and communicate it broadly.
* Deliver your roadmap to schedule. Work backwards from your customer and create goals backed up by data. Build mechanisms that monitor progress against goals. Simply and innovate - create hackathons/ideathons to encourage bottom-up innovation. Communicate a delivery plan and deliver to that plan.

A day in the life
You will be leading a team of SDEs on building new capabilities. You will work closely with other teams within Ads billing and Amazon Core Services and on design and implementation of solutions. You will supervise the creation of design documents and the presentation of those to teams, and will be expected to provide feedback on design artifacts submitted by both your SDEs and other teams. You will lead daily standups with the engineering team. You will work with Product Managers, Tax Planning, Marketing teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams