Google

Senior Staff Tech Lead, Google Retail Ads

Google$262K — $364K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience in multiple programming languages, data structures, and algorithms.
  • 8 years experience in testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 5 years in software design and architecture.
  • Experience with Ads or Search products.
  • Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary projects and influence stakeholders across various functions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical and strategic roadmap for retail signals and optimization motivated by AI transformation.
  • Lead the solution architecture across distributed teams, ensuring alignment with product management.
  • Identify improvement opportunities by collaborating with PMs and executives to integrate tools for optimization.
  • Leverage expertise from senior partners across product areas to enhance overall strategy.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off policy.
  • Access to a variety of wellness programs and resources.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures and algorithms.
  • 8 years of experience testing, maintaining or launching software products, and 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience in Ads or Search products.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Track record of leading multi-disciplinary projects from conception to execution, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Sales.
  • Familiarity with how AI-driven signals and ML models translate into retail-specific business value and user-facing improvements.
  • Understanding of performance optimization within a constrained environment, including the ability to balance trade-offs between automated value delivery and system limitations.
  • Ability to synthesize complex datasets and various performance metrics into actionable strategic insights and clear technical roadmaps.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and "connect the dots" across various product areas to build a long-term goal for retail advertising.


About the job

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

We work on the retail segment of Search Ads, driving advertiser goals through performance, directives, and insights to empower businesses in the retail ecosystem.

In this role, you'll shape how retailers connect with customers in the age of AI. You will define the technical and strategic roadmap for signals, LTV value, optimization, and advertiser directives. By leading cross-functional teams, you will build the foundational intelligence that powers automated value delivery across Search Ads for Retail. You will require a strong understanding of auction dynamics, prediction and quality systems, and advertiser-facing tools.

Google Ads is at the forefront of AI innovation, applying cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Own the technical and strategic roadmap for retail signals, goals and optimization. As we enter the age of AI transformation on search, we have a need to improve the user understanding, advertiser intent and LTV value definition to power automated value delivery for retailers.
  • Lead the solution space, that is distributed across multiple teams, technically and strategically, while working with PM.
  • Work with PMs and Executives, identify the right areas of improvements, making sure all the areas come together (e.g., how we consolidate different tools for value adjustments and use consistently across predictions and optimization).
  • Work with senior cross-product area partners to leverage their expertise and infrastructure.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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