Software Development Manager, Amazon Books Ads

Books was Amazons first product and today Books Ads is where that legacy meets the frontier of advertising technology. Were building the ad products that help every book advertiser in the world reach their ideal reader and were doing it across some of Amazons most beloved surfaces: Amazon Book Store Kindle App Kindle eInk devices and Audible.

Were looking for a Software Development Manager to own the technology that powers advertising across these reader surfaces spanning both supply (ad placements inventory creative rendering) and demand (Sponsored Products ADSP display and video deals and auction systems). Youll lead a team building systems that serve billions of impressions to hundreds of millions of readers monthly while solving problems unique to books: authors are brands readership is the conversion metric and discovery happens across formats devices and surfaces that no other advertising vertical touches.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead a strong team of engineers to innovate and deliver software and infrastructure that powers Books Ads monetization.
- Work backwards from the customer to invent new solutions and to improve existing software.
- Work with the product and technical leaders to define the product direction and roadmap.
- Create vision and execution documents. Insist on the high bar for technical documentation and the quality of the developed software.
- Perform hands-on code reviews and other technical deep dives to ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to customers.
- Hire coach and mentor software engineers.

A day in the life
- Youll own the full ads stack across four surfaces from auction participation and ad serving on Kindle eInk to ADSP demand integration on Audible.
- Youll build at the intersection of AI and advertising leveraging LLM-based sourcing conversion-optimized personalization embeddings and autonomous campaign systems purpose-built for book advertisers.
- Youll work on greenfield problems: How do you measure the lifetime value of a reader across print eBook and audiobook How do you serve ads in a distraction-free reading environment without degrading CX
- How do you make advertising effortless for an independent author who has never run a campaign
- Youll operate with startup speed inside Amazons scale. Books Ads is a vertical team with end-to-end ownership backed by Amazons infrastructure and data.


About the team
Books Ads is the first vertical ads team within Amazon Ads purpose-built because book advertisers and readers are fundamentally different from typical retail. Our advertisers range from Penguin Random House (managing thousands of titles across imprints) to independent KDP authors (managing a single debut novel on a constrained budget). Our readers dwell longer scroll deeper and compound engagement over time Kindle readers consume 12 books per month; Goodreads users shelf 538MM books annually.

Were growing at 19% YoY have delivered $41MM in annualized revenue from LLM-based sourcing alone and are actively scaling ADSP across Kindle Goodreads and Audible. Our 2027 plan spans autonomous campaigns books-native measurement (Author Halo Publisher Halo Comprehensive Ad Performance) premium creative (AI-generated book trailers) and international expansion into 5 new marketplaces. We ship fast measure rigorously and build for a future where every surface where readers discover books becomes a premium advertising destination.

This is a role where youll build things that have never existed for an audience that reads more engages deeper and converts differently than any other on Amazon.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually