Senior Staff Tech Lead, Google Retail Ads
New York, NY, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development; 8 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 5 years in software design and architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and development of retail signals, value optimization, and advertiser directives that power automated value delivery across Google Search Ads for Retail.
What you'll do
- Own the technical and strategic roadmap for retail signals, goals, and optimization.
- Lead technical and strategic solutions spanning multiple teams, partnering with Product Managers and executives.
- Coordinate with cross-product partners to improve and unify tools, predictions, and optimization systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, including data structures and algorithms.
- 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 5 years of software design and architecture experience.
- Experience in Ads or Search products.
Nice to have
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary projects and aligning stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Sales.
- Familiarity with AI-driven signals and ML models applied to retail business value and user-facing improvements.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Google Ads, Search Ads, Gemini
AI focus
Shapes AI-era retail advertising, defining signals and value optimization for automated delivery; Google Ads uses machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini.
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