Director of Engineering, Ads

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.

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About the Role

Ads on Twitch aren't like ads anywhere else. They happen live, in front of communities that are actively engaged and they directly fund the creators those communities love. This is a genuinely unsolved problem: you won't be optimizing a mature system, you'll be defining what the next generation of live-stream advertising looks like.

We're looking for an engineering leader to run multiple teams building ad experiences that feel native to live streaming. You'll own the technical vision for how ads work on Twitch and lead the org to ship it. Your work will have direct revenue impact and visibility to senior leadership - it shows up on the P&L. The org is at a stage where your leadership decisions will shape its culture for years, and you'll work alongside strong cross-functional partners who care deeply about creators.

This role demands someone who can formulate intuition and opinions grounded in first-principles understanding, not just pattern-matching from past playbooks. You'll navigate both technical and product ambiguity simultaneously, leading entirely autonomously rather than relying on a hierarchy to set direction. This is a very fast-paced environment where leading teams to results and delivering resounding impact is the expectation.

You can work in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.

You Will:

• Own the engineering strategy for ad products across multiple teams
• Make real architectural calls - we're actively evolving how ads are served, targeted, and measured in a live-streaming context
• Build and develop your managers, and foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Partner with product, sales, and operations to balance advertiser needs with viewer and creator experience
• Set quality and velocity standards grounded in data

You Have:

• 7+ years managing software engineering teams, with at least 1 of those managing other managers
• A track record of shipping consumer-facing products in a high-growth, fast-changing environment
• Experience growing and retaining engineering talent - not just hiring, but developing people into leaders
• Strong technical chops to earn credibility with senior engineers and make architectural tradeoffs
• Ability to build a strong engineering culture anchored on technical innovation, high velocity, customer impact, and cross-functional collaboration

Bonus Points

• Experience building for ads products - ad serving, targeting, measurement, or advertiser-facing tools
• Background working in live or real-time media environments
• Experience operating with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving organizations

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. 

Job ID: TW9213