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Engineering Manager, Ads Measurement

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Created to deliver high-quality news from a wide variety of trusted publishers in one place, the SmartNews team works tirelessly to help readers feel good about being informed.

Key benefits

  • Your ideas matter
  • International team

About the position

Our advertisers want to know how our ad is performing for them. You and your team will be building a foundation to measure how much value we were able to provide to our advertisers. You will own core components such as conversion tracking, ad pixels, browser tracking technologies, identify graphs, offline visit tracking, reporting to provide insights to advertisers and many more. These will require an in-depth understanding of the advertiser’s business and also some hard technical challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Make a strong partnership with product teams to build next generation of SmartNews measurement features
  • Work with your team to build a technical roadmaps
  • Own E2E impact of the product

Qualifications

  • Worked on Ads or product that involves external business stakeholders.
  • Able to build a strong team through hiring, as well as mentoring/growing engineers by constantly challenging them with solid support
  • Experience in leading cross-team/cross org projects/initiatives
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • MS or BS in computer science, mathematics, physics or other quantitative field

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working for ad measurement or similar area
  • Experience with cloud-based architecture (e.g. Amazon Web Services)
  • Business Level Japanese
  • Experience in distributed
  • Direct experience in the ads industry
  • Have experience working together with distributed engineering/product teams.

Meet SmartNews's Developers

When Robert joined SmartNews as a software engineer, most of his colleagues were Japanese. Since then, it’s grown into an international organization where English is predominantly used.

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YuCheng is a senior software engineer at SmartNews. He explains the freedom he enjoys at SmartNews: not only from a technical perspective, but also the influence he can have over the direction of the product.

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Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.

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