Senior Engineering Manager - Growth

Responsibilities:

• Manage a group of highly skilled engineers by providing technical management, guidance, coaching, best practices and principles
• Active participation in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects
• Responsible for resource planning, execution, and quality of the software delivered by the group
• Lead the group to build sophisticated products using cutting-edge technology stack. The products will be used by retail customers and internal business users.
• Work closely with various business stakeholders like Product Management Team, and other Engineering teams to drive the execution of multiple business strategies and technologies
• Act as a point of contact for TCO (total cost of ownership), managing and driving production defects & stability improvements to resolution
• Ensuring operational efficiency and actively participating in organizational initiatives with the objective of ensuring the highest customer value
• Work closely with Product Managers and Business teams to optimize the ad spend for maximum reach and return on ad spend (ROAS)

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 10+ years of experience
• Experience working in highly dynamic Engineering environment like a start-up
• Deep understanding in one of Object-Oriented programming languages
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence
• Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
• Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no-touch support along with SRE principles
• Prior experience in solving use cases in AdTech/Performance Marketing Engineering is highly desirable

3-6-12 month goals

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3-month goals
• Understand our current Growth KPIs and provide engineering cadence to track and achieve the 2024 OKRs.
• Get familiar with details of the top 5 channels, Meta, Google, Affiliate, TikTok, and Take ownership of Growth charter, Acquisition, and Retention.
• Start owning the Mar Tech Engineering sprints and driving biweekly user meetings from an engineering standpoint Streamline WBR and MBR reporting from an engineering pov 
• Develop a close working relationship with Business and PM and start collaborating productively Own the hiring roadmap for the Engineering team and create a 1-year engineering roadmap to scale the current marketing systems.


6-month goals


• Understand the current Acquisition business requirements and solution implementation deeply and start influencing the business from the engineering side
• Understand our current Growth KPIs and influence the following goals from an engineering standpoint by partnering with Growth Business and PM.
• Aim to achieve the overall Growth annual goals and drive towards it
• Take ownership of the Growth whole charter, Acquisition, and Retention both, not only for the business OKR, but also tech tech OKR.
• Build systematic engineering systems to automate the marketing initiatives that can scale.


12-month high-level metrics 
• $200M marketing budget
• improve nGMV % to be 41%
• Meta only 40% of spend
• Improve YoY repeat by 20%Email/SMS churn rate (<0.5%/<1.5%)