Engineering Manager, Ads Promo Products

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · 341 Executive Engineering

Engineering Manager for DoorDash's Ads & Promos organization, focusing on backend services and frontend interfaces for promotional campaigns. The role involves leading a team of engineers, collaborating with product managers and designers, and driving the execution of the product roadmap to deliver high-quality solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive strategic impact across the organization, playing a key role in shaping the direction of our product development and influencing the company's overall success
  2. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define the roadmap and vision for the team and deliver immense impact
  3. Lead an outstanding team by coaching engineers, empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards
  4. Inspire the team with your technical vision and create the alignment necessary to execute on it
  5. Scale the team by recruiting, retaining, and developing highly talented engineers across different disciplines

Skills

Required

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 7+ years of industry experience
  • 2+ years of management experience
  • experience managing product engineering teams (Backend, Frontend, mobile)
  • strong product sense
  • experience working with non-technical stakeholders
  • cross-team collaboration
  • building scalable products
  • ability to handle ambiguity
  • ability to guide and grow an engineering team

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 2 years of management experience
  • experience managing product engineering teams with Backend, Frontend Engineers, and mobile engineers
  • hands-on experience working with non-technical stakeholders
  • ability to handle ambiguity
  • work with product and business partners to collect non-technical requirements to design and build scalable experience solutions
  • ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment