Our Opportunity:
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 Sponsored Advertising team, you’ll be part of core leadership team and will influence technical strategy across product, tech and business leadership. This role is for Sponsored Display ads and will require someone with strong expertise of display ads systems and architecture. You’ll define new ad supply initiatives, assess campaigns performance, implement systems to optimize advertiser’s campaign performance and put to test various experiments to conduct research. You’ll deep-dive and evaluate new experiment’s performance to assess their launch readiness to deliver a wow experience for pet-parents. You’ll be leading a team of smart engineers and managers and will be at forefront of driving technology driven business impact. You’ll work with smart machine learning engineers to employ algorithms leveraging data-science to implement state of art ads functionality.
Come be part of the team to build and scale Sponsored Ads charter at Chewy!
What You'll Do:
- Own, lead, and manage roadmap of large-scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of data and operate with very low latency.
- 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 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, straight-forward 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 org.
- 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 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.
Compensation & Benefits:
Our salary range for an Associate Director, Software Engineering position is $156,000.00 - $255,000.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k, and a new hire and annual equity grant. We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com. Salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
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 [email protected].
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What We Do
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. We view pets and pet parents as family, and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, growand unleash your fullest potential.
Launched in 2011, we offer the personalized service of a neighborhood pet store alongside the convenience and speed of e-commerce. Customers love shopping our wide selection of products of more than 100,000 products (including our Private brands and prescription Rx food and Rx medication products), which we offer at competitive prices, fast 1-2 day shipping and around-the-clock convenience that only e-commerce can offer.
Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of our brand, and our customers love us for it. We “WOW” pet parents through 24/7 assistance, advice and encouragement every day of the year. We make pet parenting easy with our convenient Autoship subscription program—which allows our customers to schedule their orders, so they never run out of their pet food, supplies and medication they need.
As an e-commerce company, product innovation drives our operations, and our team is constantly striving to find new and better ways to improve our customers’ experience. From an easy-to-navigate website and highly rated mobile apps, to detailed order tracking and personalized “Pet Profile” features, we are transforming the way pet parents shop.
Why Work With Us
We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.
With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.
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