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Chewy Associate Director, Software Engineering Boston, Massachusetts Apply Now At Chewy we are building a team to launch a Sponsored Advertising business and looking for an Associate Director, Sponsored Ads Engineering . Sponsored Ads creates a win-win ecosystem for shoppers, brand owners, and Chewy! Shoppers are offered a range of alternate options to help them choose better and learn about new products, new brands, new promotions, and different price points. Brand owners and advertisers get to showcase their product offerings in the front row for their target audience (proud pet owners) and maximize their reach. Advertising is a critical component of the ecommerce ecosystem and provides a critical revenue stream to the company. As a leader of the Sponsored Advertising team, you’ll be part of the core leadership team and will influence technical strategy across product, tech, and business leadership. This role is for Sponsored Ads and will require someone with strong expertise in ads systems and architecture. You’ll define new ad supply initiatives, assess campaign performance, implement systems to optimize advertisers' campaign performance, and put to test various experiments to conduct user research. Extensive analytics will be used to ensure new product features are overall helping improve pet-parents’ shopping experience and ads-product offerings. You’ll be leading a team of smart engineers and managers and will be at the forefront of driving technology-driven business impact. This role requires the leader to lead a full-stack development team including front-end, backend, and data engineers. Come be part of the team to build and scale the Sponsored Ads charter at Chewy! What You'll Do: Own, lead, and manage the roadmap of a full-stack software team that develops features for advertisers across campaign management, creative management, reporting, and launching high-impact features. Own and manage multiple services across Chewy and follow service-oriented architecture. Manage team(s) of software engineers, managers, and other disciplines responsible for building Chewy’s Advertising solution. Recruit, hire new engineers, and mentor to promote the growth of the existing team. Evolve team’s charter organically to evolve into multiple scrum teams driven by defined ownership of software modules. Drive technical decisions and work with product management and across non-technical organizations to prioritize and drive engineering investments. Review design implementations, provide feedback for managers and individual contributors. Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams. Collaborate on the design and implementation of scalable environments for development and testing. Identify and manage priorities within the context of overall corporate objectives, drive 1-, 2-, and 3-year plans. Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development. Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained. Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering organization. Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner. What You'll Need: Candidates possess a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience. 10+ years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer. 5+ years of experience in Engineering Management. Exceptional leadership and communication skills. Strong fundamentals on building and scaling cloud-based solutions (AWS). Proficiency in designing scalable, distributed, low latency, and high throughput systems. Must be able to identify and manage priorities within the context of overall Advertising business objectives based on data-driven decision making. Position may require occasional travel. Bonus: Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field. Experience working with display ads systems will be a huge plus. Machine Learning and applied science understanding is a plus. Experience and domain expertise in digital advertising or marketing technologies or eCommerce/Retail technology stack will be a plus. Demonstrated experience taking a project from inception through launch. Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com . If you have a question regarding your application, please contact HR@chewy.com . To access Chewy's Customer Privacy Policy, please click here . To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here . #J-18808-Ljbffr Chewy

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