About the Role
Ads on Twitch are a unique challenge, offering an opportunity to define the next generation of live-stream advertising. This role involves leading multiple teams to build native ad experiences, owning the technical vision, and directly impacting revenue and senior leadership visibility. The position requires formulating opinions based on first-principles understanding, navigating ambiguity, and leading autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the engineering strategy for ad products across multiple teams
- Make architectural decisions for ad serving, targeting, and measurement in a live-streaming context
- Build and develop managers, fostering a culture of continuous engineering improvement
- Partner with product, sales, and operations to balance advertiser needs with viewer and creator experience
- Set quality and velocity standards grounded in data
Requirements
- 7+ years managing software engineering teams, with at least 1 year managing other managers
- Shipped consumer-facing products in a high-growth, fast-changing environment
- Experience growing and retaining engineering talent
- Strong technical skills for credibility with senior engineers and architectural tradeoffs
- Ability to build a strong engineering culture focused on technical innovation, high velocity, customer impact, and cross-functional collaboration
Skills
- Ads products experience (ad serving, targeting, measurement, or advertiser-facing tools)
- Live or real-time media environments experience
- Operating with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving organizations
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seattle, WA
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Manager of Managers
- Senior Engineering Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- US, WA, Seattle - Annually $220,100—$297,700 USD
- US, CA, San Francisco - Annually $253,100—$342,300 USD
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
- Parental leave
About the Company
- Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more.
- We’re about community, inside and out.
- We’re on a quest to empower live communities.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
