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New York Times Senior Engineering Manager, Data Ad Products in New York, New York
The mission (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
About the Role:
The New York Times is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Ad Products team in our Digital Advertising group. The Data Ad Products team contributes to The New York Times Advertising (https://advertising.nytimes.com/) business by applying machine learning and AI and developing audience segmentation and targeting systems. These systems are integrated across The New York Times portfolio (News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter, and The Athletic) as part of our powerful First Party Data program (https://open.nytimes.com/to-serve-better-ads-we-built-our-own-data-program-c5e039bf247b) .
This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Senior Engineering Director, Digital Advertising Mission.
Responsibilities:
Manage and motivate a team of 8-10 engineers as they build revenue-driving advertising products.
Lead engineers from junior to staff level to make maximum impact through feedback, recognition, coaching, and inclusivity.
Guide and direct the team’s technical operations, architecture designs, and decisions, ensuring they match with the group strategic vision.
Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and Data to plan your team’s roadmap and deliver efficiently.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Basic Qualifications:
3-5 years of engineering management experience, recruiting and building high performing engineering teams.
Experience with distributed, data-intensive systems deployed on modern cloud platforms.
Demonstrated technical leadership in driving delivery for complex, cross-functional projects, managing multiple stakeholders, and thinking beyond direct scope of your team.
Able to represent the team in technical discussions, identify and address technical problems and risks, and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.
Experience managing Senior and Staff level engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
Expertise in adtech, targeting or personalization systems.
Expertise in SQL, data modeling, and data infrastructure.
Experience with US and European privacy regulations.
Familiarity with AI and machine learning techniques.
This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$176,000 — $193,000 USD
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