What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer position at The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH?
About the Role & Team
Performance Marketing is an internal cross-functional team within The Walt Disney Studios Marketing organization. The Performance Marketing team uses developing and maturing ad technologies to achieve remarkable data-driven results within auction-based or otherwise addressable media platforms; they also support other paid media and marketing efforts with insights, recommendations, and innovative marketing technologies. Performance Marketing includes Marketing Technology and Marketing Science who help drive innovation, as well as units for Performance Marketing Strategy & Operations, Marketing Analytics, and Marketing Compliance who ground the overall team in the business. Together, we strive and collaborate for continuous improvement in advertising effectiveness and efficiency while protecting and enhancing the magical brands of The Walt Disney Studios!
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to sit in the Marketing Technology Unit, to create, experiment, and innovate with new media performance applications and automations. You'll get to understand the challenges of driving a highly data-driven and technically precise paid media strategy for a variety of titles and brand experiences, all while using the latest technologies and tooling in the data / tech space. If you're interested in working in a highly collaborative team environment embedded directly in a key business unit like this, please get in touch - we'd love to hear from you!
What You Will Do
- Design and build tools that support the existing ad technology teams at The Walt Disney Studios—collectively known as “the performance marketing engine”; allow the teams to scale their work, increase the rate of delivery, and make space for future innovation.
- Drive software engineering and architectural best practices and standards within the team, along with a culture of engineering excellence; uphold standards and rigor around software development, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Provide mentorship and guidance for team members; evangelize the new tools, best practices, and data-driven decisions.
- Develop and enhance existing capabilities of the Performance Marketing Engine.
- Create tooling and applications that can dynamically manage ad strategy configurations in a variety of social and digital platforms.
- Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to rapidly iterate from prototypes to high-quality, production pipelines; contribute to emerging marketing analytics projects that address pressing business questions from collaborators in The Walt Disney Studios Marketing organization.
- Implement quality controls, monitoring, and other safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately and safely applied to in-flight ad campaigns and key business metrics are always presented accurately.
- Adapt applications and workflows in the Performance Marketing Engine to changes arising from industry-wide events (such as the iOS14 update or cookie deprecation) as well as to more customary changes like standard updates to partner APIs.
- Collaborate with the Studio Technology team to ensure data fidelity and reinforce larger data initiatives at The Walt Disney Studios.
- Lead efforts to design and create new and innovative enhancements to the Performance Marketing Engine to improve capabilities in : Categorizing and taxonomizing paid media efforts.
- Implement paid media strategies at scale across multiple digital media channels.
- Simplify media operations and improve operational efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Disability Accommodation for Employment Applications
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The hiring range for this remote position is $152,200.00 to $204,100.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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Salary : $152,200 - $204,100
