Engineering Manager, Local Search Ads Quality

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in any of the following: Machine Learning, Ad Quality, Search, Data Analysis.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team to improve the quality and coverage of the local search ads. Lead efforts to uncover new opportunities that fuel the growth for the team.
• Design and develop next generation algorithms, models and systems to improve the quality and coverage of the local search ads.
• Work on projects spanning a range of technical domains including, ML feature engineering, image/video quality, quality experimentation, logs analysis, advertiser reporting, and production stability.
• Dive deep into understanding the user and advertiser needs on local queries and evaluate our whole page ads quality.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to drive solutions. Create documentation, sustainable processes, and principles that allow the team to iterate faster.