Manager, Engineering - Ads

About the position

At MyFitnessPal, our vision is to be the most trusted brand for improving your health through better food choices. We believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide the tools and resources to reach your weight management goals. Our free, ad-supported app is central to our mission of providing accessible food tracking for all, and the majority of our users choose this option as they begin to live a healthier lifestyle. MyFitnessPal aims to enhance the user experience by incorporating premium ad formats that are not only engaging for users but also provide a significant revenue stream for the platform as our user base expands. As a member of our MyFitnessPal Engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users by leading a cross-functional team of Android, Backend, iOS, and Web engineers. The team focuses on outcomes over outputs, prioritizing work based on MFP’s product vision and strategy using data and experimentation. Our brand-new Ads team is dually focused on improving the existing Ads experience while exploring novel formats for advertising throughout the user journey. If you’re excited about driving meaningful business growth while delivering a delightful experience to our end users, we want you on our team!

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a talented team to deliver against the squad’s objectives to develop compelling, relevant advertising solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Design, leveraging qualitative and quantitative tools to explore Ads solutions across mobile and web apps.
• Take a hands-on approach to delivery management, ensuring the backlog is healthy, maintenance and tech debt work are scheduled, and work is broken down appropriately.
• Work closely with your Tech Lead to ensure the team is making strong decisions that set us up for success as our ads footprint grows.
• Coach and develop your team, investing in individuals while keeping team health top-of-mind.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience leading engineering teams in close partnership with Product and Design, working iteratively with a deep focus on customer outcomes.
• Experience with programmatic advertising technology such as SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, and adtech platforms.
• Strong analytical focus and comfort working through tricky A/B testing and data attribution challenges, ideally in an Ads domain.
• Experience working cross functionally with a diverse set of stakeholders (legal, finance, etc) and familiarity with privacy by design principles.
• Experience working in data-intensive spaces, ideally with third parties and in collaboration with AI/ML teams.
• Experience leading consumer-facing development work focused on native iOS and Android apps using Agile principles and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience developing teams through mentorship and coaching.
• Knowledge of common patterns and software engineering and best practices, especially for high-traffic mobile applications.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
• Parental planning and paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Mental health benefits and dedicated mental health days.
• Annual performance bonus.
• 401(k) plan and match.
• Responsible time off and flexible time-off policy.
• Monthly wellness and technology allowances.
• Volunteer days off to support community service.
• Mentorship program for career development.
• Access to MyFitnessPal Premium for personal health and fitness.
• Virtual learning and development library.