Director of Engineering, Ads

Twitch

ABOUT US Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X,  and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. ABOUT THE ROLE The Twitch Ad Products team's goal is to help streamers earn money by connecting them with brands they authentically endorse and offering the best ad experiences for their communities. We are looking for a product leader who has experience leading product initiatives from concept to successful launch. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with high levels of customer obsession, strong technical judgment, demonstrated ability to build scalable processes and products, and is an independent operator, experienced working across teams to deliver on behalf of customers. As a Sr. Product Manager on the Ad Products team, you’ll have an end-to-end ownership of the product(s), design, and technology required to ensure our end customers have a relevant and compliant Twitch advertising experience, reporting to the Director of Ad Products. You can work from Twitch’s headquarters in San Francisco, CA; or from one of our hub locations in Seattle, WA; Irvine, CA; or New York City, NY - with West Coast (PST) working hours. YOU WILL: * Lead the development and execution of a bold customer-focused product strategy and vision for ad targeting, personalization, and measurement; ensuring compliance with privacy and accessibility regulations. * Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, science, policy, operations, and business stakeholders, to define and execute a product roadmap. * Work back from our customers by learning from their feedback, behavioral measurements, and other data sources to identify pain points and ensure we are building the right features over time. * Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and analyze metrics to measure the impact of addressable inventory, identify areas for improvement, and drive optimization. * Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product * Collaborate with other teams at Twitch and Amazon to elevate our overall advertising experience. * Own your launches by partnering with engineering, marketing and other teams to maximize the outcomes of your team's work. YOU HAVE: * 5+ years of work experience as a Product Manager * Experience leading cross-functional initiatives * Experience defining 1-2 year product strategies, and working on associated roadmaps * Demonstrated advocacy of the needs of customers including end-users (viewers & creators) and advertisers * Run product experiments with in-depth product performance analysis * Translated your product ideas into expected impact BONUS POINTS * 2+ years working on ad products * Experience working on innovative ad supply generation initiatives including new formats * Experience in ad targeting and/or measurement PERKS * Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance * 401(k) * Maternity & Parental Leave * Flexible PTO * Amazon Employee Discount Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Job ID: TW9179 The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits. US, WA, Seattle - Annually $151,200—$204,600 USD US, CA, San Francisco - Annually $173,900—$235,200 USD US, NY, New York - Annually $166,300—$225,000 USD US, CA, Irvine - Annually $151,200—$204,600 USD Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.

Discord

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord only works at our scale if people feel safe showing up — and building the systems that make that possible is exactly what our Safety engineering org does. We classify content, route reports, make and audit enforcement decisions, and build the tools our operations partners use to handle everything automation doesn't. The work is a mix of deep backend infrastructure, AI-driven automation, and tight collaboration with the people who do nuanced review. As Discord grows into new surfaces like commerce and ads, the platform we build matters more. We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead Safety Infrastructure Engineering at Discord. The org is roughly 20 engineers across two teams with two EM direct reports. You'll report to the senior Director of Safety and work closely with T&S Operations, Safety ML, Safety Product, Legal, Policy, Security, and Core Tech. What you'll do * Lead and grow two engineering teams covering our safety backend: the decision platform, classification systems, content understanding, intake and routing pipelines, and observability * Drive the automation roadmap with Safety ML. Decide where AI belongs in the loop, where humans still win, and hold the line on quality, latency, and cost * Own the queue routing and internal tooling our ops teams and vendor partners rely on, and partner with T&S Operations on golden sets, QA, appeals, and evals that turn operational signal into better systems * Consolidate fragmented systems onto infra and set the bar for engineering quality: on-call, incident response, technical review, and ownership * Hire, coach, and grow senior leaders Who you are * 5+ years as a software engineer with a strong backend and distributed systems background, and 5+ years as an EM including 2+ years managing managers. Experience running 20+ engineers through multiple EMs * Strong infrastructure instincts. You can hold your own in architecture discussions on event-driven systems, service migrations, and platform design * Fluent in AI and ML systems enough to partner credibly with an ML org and make good calls about where automation belongs in a decision pipeline * Experienced working closely with ops or human-in-the-loop teams. You get the rhythm of QA, calibration, appeals, and ground-truth work, and build tools that respect the people using them * Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a history of partnering effectively across engineering, ML, data science, policy, legal, and product teams. * Practical about throughput, vendor management, and unit economics * An empathetic and experienced recruiter and coach. People you've managed want to work with you again Bonus * A strong passion for Discord and/or gaming, and an appreciation for the communities we serve. * Trust & Safety, fraud, integrity, or abuse engineering at a consumer platform * Building ML platforms, MLOps, or automated decisioning at scale * Managing vendor-based ops (BPO, content review, third-party tools), or building internal tools where ops or review teams are the primary user * Payments, fraud, or commerce infra   Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $400,000 to $450,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits. Why Discord?  Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away! Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know. Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking HERE.

Pinterest

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. We are looking for a Director of Machine Learning to lead the Content and User Understanding team at Pinterest. This leader will define the long‑term ML / AI vision, technical strategy and drive execution for building the company-wide content and user understanding ML models and systems that power Pinterest’s critical product surfaces across homefeed, related, search, shopping, growth and ads. You will oversee multiple teams of machine learning and backend engineers and managers. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and product instincts to deliver industry‑leading ML solutions, including driving state of art innovation in VLM (Vision‑Language Models) and LLM (Large Language Models)-based approaches. What you’ll do: * Lead ML Strategy and Innovation for Foundational Content and User Understanding * Set the multi-year vision, technical strategy, and investment roadmap for content and user understanding ML models and systems. * Drive innovation of cutting-edge AI approaches, including large scale sequence modeling, VLM and LLM. * Lead Execution and Deployment Across Pinterest to Deliver Topline Impact * Ensure the foundational content and user understanding models and systems are effective and scalable to power downstream applications across Pinterest surfaces: homefeed, related, search, shopping, growth and ads. * Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science leaders in partner teams to translate foundational ML techniques into significant business impact. Form strong collaboration across teams and build trust. * Build and Scale a World-Class ML Organization * Manage, hire, and develop a team of high-performing managers and ML / Backend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, rigor, and impact. * Drive ML Influence Across Pinterest * Act as the primary technical spokesperson for Content and User Understanding to executive leadership and external partners. * Represent the team's needs and priorities in company-wide planning and resource allocation to ensure long-term, strategic ML investment.   What we’re looking for: * 12+ years of professional experience as a technical leader, including 5+ years in people leadership roles (managing managers and senior ICs). * Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, or equivalent experience * Deep ML expertise: building and operating large-scale ML systems in recommendation, ads or search. * Expertise in large scale deep learning, VLM and LLM approaches. * Track record to set long term technical vision and lead teams to deliver top line business impacts. * Seasoned People Leader: Proven success leading complex ML organizations, managing managers, and exceptional communication and influence skills to drive close collaboration with multiple partner teams. In‑Office Requirement Statement: * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. * This role will need to be in the office for in‑person collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. Relocation Statement: * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-AK7 #LI-REMOTE  At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $267,393—$550,515 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.   By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.