Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Ads Format

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, to join our Ads Formats Team!

What you’ll do:

• Manage a team of engineers, provide support to team members, grow leaders, and foster positive team culture

• Drive the team’s strategy and goal setting related to project impact, system design, and engineering excellence, with a specific focus on optimizing ad format performance.

• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company and improves the performance of the organization

• Design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives, especially those related to launching innovative, high-performing ads formats.

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services, ensuring new formats drive measurable value for advertisers.

• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

• Deeply analyze format performance metrics (e.g., CTR, conversion rate, latency) to identify and execute on opportunities for performance improvement across the ad formats lifecycle.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design

• Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at scale, with a demonstrated history of delivering significant performance gains

• Ability to proactively learn new concepts and technology and apply them at work

• Deep expertise in the architecture and delivery of various digital ads formats (e.g., video, display, augmented reality, dynamic ads), including understanding format specification and rendering optimization.

• Experience in the advertising domain, including an understanding of the performance levers in an auction-based system related to ad quality and format efficacy.

• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems, defining technical roadmaps that directly translate into measurable business impact.

• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills

• Strong people management and leadership skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience

• 2+ years of experience managing high-performing managers or providing technical and strategic leadership for engineering teams focused on advertising applications.

• Proven experience in managing, mentoring, and scaling diverse engineering teams to consistently deliver complex, high-impact projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science

• Experience with cross-platform development

• Ability to promote product excellence and collaboration, driving a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects, from short-term critical feature launches to long-term research initiatives

• Ability to create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and have a collaborative leadership approach

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

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This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.