What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Engineering position at Best Buy?
As a Senior Engineering Manager with the Ads Engineering team, you will lead a team responsible for measurement, reporting, and insights that power Best Buy Ads and the broader Retail Media Network. This role is accountable for building and scaling trusted, accurate, and performant measurement data systems that enable advertisers, merchants, and internal teams to understand campaign performance and business impact. You will build and lead a high-performing data engineering team while setting the technical direction for measurement platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Operating in a matrixed environment, you will partner closely with Product Management, Ads Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, and Business stakeholders to align data capabilities with advertiser needs and Best Buy’s growth objectives.
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the architecture, evolution, and operational excellence of retail media measurement platforms, ensuring scalable event ingestion, attribution, reporting, and consistent data models across GCP‑based pipelines.
- Align measurement systems with ad‑serving and event‑generation workflows by partnering closely with Ads Engineering and cross‑functional teams across Product, Analytics, Data Science, Marketing, and the business.
- Build, hire, and develop a high‑performing data engineering team through clear expectations, coaching, feedback, and career‑growth support.
- Foster a culture of data quality, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement while driving best practices in SDLC, validation, monitoring, and incident response.
- Communicate measurement strategy, platform changes, and data tradeoffs clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, influencing effectively within a matrixed organization.
- Balance near‑term delivery with long‑term scalability and technical‑debt reduction while staying current on retail media measurement trends and applying industry best practices.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience
- 3 years of experience with GCP core services including Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Workflows, and Cloud Functions.
- 1 years of experience writing complex SQL queries and multi-paradigm data modeling (Relational, Dimensional, and NoSQL).
- 1 years of people management or formal team leadership experience.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct reporting authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7 years of relevant professional experience in engineering
- 5 years of experience with engineering custom solutions using modern languages, cloud technologies and SDLC practices and tools.
- 3 years of Experience with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices including Scrum and Kanban
- 1 years of experience with Retail Media Networks, Ad Engineering, Ad Servers or Demand Partners
- Experience supporting retail media networks, advertising measurement, or monetization analytics platforms.
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.