Job Description
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
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/ |
About Company
Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.
That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?
You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.
Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.
When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.
So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.
Skills
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Campaignsunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Cloud Storageunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Computer Servicesunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Matrix Managementunmatched
- Product Managementunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Retailunmatched
- Retail Operationsunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
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