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Engineering Manager, Ads Product

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

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

SmartNews is a news app with 20 million monthly active users in the U.S. and Japan. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.

Key benefits

  • Not too big, not too small
  • Highly collaborative environment
  • 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

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Application review

    When you submit your application to SmartNews, it will be reviewed by our recruitment team, to make sure it is relevant to the position.

  2. 2

    Online coding test

    When you pass this initial screening, you’ll then be sent out an online coding test. The results of this test and your resume will then be reviewed in more detail by one of our engineers.

  3. 3

    Interviews

    After you pass this secondary screening, you’ll be invited in for a round of interviews, covering both behavioral and technical topics.

  4. 4

    Offer

    Once you’ve passed these interviews, we’ll make you an offer.

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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