Manager, Engineering - Ads

Role overview Lead an engineering squad building advertising experiences for a consumer health and fitness app. You will help the team deliver useful product outcomes while balancing growth goals with user privacy and trust, working closely with product, design, ad operations, and sales partners. The work includes experiments and native mobile experiences across programmatic and directly sold advertising.

Responsibilities - Partner with Product and Design to explore customer and business needs using qualitative research and quantitative data. - Keep delivery moving through a healthy backlog, appropriately sized work, and planned capacity for maintenance and technical debt. - Guide work from discovery through delivery while maintaining code quality and long-term maintainability. - Lead team ceremonies and help others facilitate an engaged, empowered team. - Coach engineers, support individual development, and maintain team health. - Use experiments and product data to guide iterative improvements to advertising experiences.

Requirements - At least two years leading mobile engineering teams using an iterative, outcome-focused product approach. - Experience with A/B testing and data-informed product iteration. - Background leading consumer-facing native app development with learning-focused agile methods. - Track record partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering to plan and deliver projects. - Ability to build trust through coaching, clear goals, and decision-making guidance while empowering engineers to own technical choices. - Understanding of engineering practices for high-traffic mobile applications, including how to balance speed, quality, and safety.

Benefits and work setup - Benefits include healthcare, parental and fertility support, mental health resources, a retirement plan with employer match, paid leave, and wellness and technology allowances. - The role offers opportunities for in-person team connections, mentorship, and learning and development.