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Engineering Manager, Ads Product

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 Ads Product team is a full-stack engineering team building user-facing features and advertiser facing features for the millions of users and thousands of advertisers we already serve.

Responsibilities

  • Own E2E product feature development of SmartNews ad platform.
  • Deeply understand advertisers’ demands and build a roadmap together with product leads.
  • Set team goals each quarter, develop team plans, and play an active role in team building.
  • Make strong partnership with product teams and global ads engineering teams distributed in Shanghai, Tokyo, and the Bay Area.

Minimum Requirement

  • Business-level Japanese ability
  • 3+ years of experience in developing consumer applications or B2B applications
  • 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 fields

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with cloud based architecture (e.g. Amazon Web Services)
  • Strong interest in delivering E2E Impact
  • Direct experience in the ads industry

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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