Engineering Manager, Ads Marketplace (ML)

About the position

The mission of the Ads Marketplace team is to ensure we maintain a healthy ads marketplace across all our verticals for both search (query context) and discovery experiences while fulfilling the requirements of all players in this marketplace. Ads Economics is a critical part of the Ads Delivery funnel with a broad charter responsible for Budget Pacing, Bidding, Ads Experimentation, Forecasting, Pricing and Ads Experimentation. The opportunity is massive as DoorDash expands into new verticals like Grocery and Retail while building unique innovative ad products to leverage the closed loop marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of exceptional machine learning researchers and engineers while maintaining our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Support and nurture a culture of analytical rigor and systems understanding.
• Understand and support the needs of all players in the ads marketplace – consumers, advertisers and DoorDash.
• Work closely with product managers on roadmap development, set the technical direction and vision for the team.
• Nurturing team members and helping them develop their career path and achieve their career goals.
• Deliver end-to-end ML solutions to support the growth of the business.
• Define the roadmap and vision for the team to drive end-to-end business impact.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, first-principles thinking and teamwork.
• Build 0-1 solutions in a fast growing ads marketplace.

Requirements

• M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale including familiarity with fundamentals of probability theory, statistics, and machine learning.
• 1+ years of leadership experience leading 6+ member teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with XFN teams across product, data science and business.
• Ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Ads domain is not mandatory but a big plus.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with an employer match.
• Paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance.
• Commuter benefit match.
• Mental health program.