Director of Engineering, Twitch
Ads
$220.1-342.3k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
Gaming-focused livestream platform
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Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$220.1-342.3k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years managing software engineering teams, with at least 1 of those managing other managers
- A track record of shipping consumer-facing products in a high-growth, fast-changing environment
- Experience growing and retaining engineering talent - not just hiring, but developing people into leaders
- Strong technical chops to earn credibility with senior engineers and make architectural tradeoffs
- Ability to build a strong engineering culture anchored on technical innovation, high velocity, customer impact, and cross-functional collaboration
Desirable
- Experience building for ads products - ad serving, targeting, measurement, or advertiser-facing tools
- Background working in live or real-time media environments
- Experience operating with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving organizations
What the job involves
- Ads on Twitch aren't like ads anywhere else
- They happen live, in front of communities that are actively engaged and they directly fund the creators those communities love
- This is a genuinely unsolved problem: you won't be optimizing a mature system, you'll be defining what the next generation of live-stream advertising looks like
- We're looking for an engineering leader to run multiple teams building ad experiences that feel native to live streaming
- You'll own the technical vision for how ads work on Twitch and lead the org to ship it
- Your work will have direct revenue impact and visibility to senior leadership - it shows up on the P&L
- The org is at a stage where your leadership decisions will shape its culture for years, and you'll work alongside strong cross-functional partners who care deeply about creators
- This role demands someone who can formulate intuition and opinions grounded in first-principles understanding, not just pattern-matching from past playbooks
- You'll navigate both technical and product ambiguity simultaneously, leading entirely autonomously rather than relying on a hierarchy to set direction
- This is a very fast-paced environment where leading teams to results and delivering resounding impact is the expectation
- Own the engineering strategy for ad products across multiple teams
- Make real architectural calls - we're actively evolving how ads are served, targeted, and measured in a live-streaming context
- Build and develop your managers, and foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Partner with product, sales, and operations to balance advertiser needs with viewer and creator experience
- Set quality and velocity standards grounded in data
Our take
Twitch is the world's leading video platform for gamers, allowing users to livestream gaming sessions and curate a dedicated community for their content. By dedicating the platform to gaming alone, it has amassed a loyal following of fans, and been able to launch its Partner Program where streamers can monetize their livestreams, incorporate corporate partnerships, and even attend TwitchCon, a convention where dedicated gamers can socialize.
Twitch's acquisition by Amazon in 2014 saw its viewers double in a year, bringing the platform to a wider audience. However, with YouTube streaming popularity on the rise, it has big competition to contend with, as some popular streamers prefer going live on the video giant. Interestingly, a recent move by the platform was to enable its partner streamers to make live content on other platforms - previously inhibited by its exclusivity clause - which may combat the possibility of losing streamers permanently to YouTube.
In 2022, Twitch had to contend with backlash for its proposal to cut creator income by reducing their cut of subscription earnings. However, with the plan only affecting a minute number of creators, the controversy appears to have died down. Needless to say, Twitch is for now entirely comfortable in the market - with possible plans to extend past gaming bringing the chance to generate more popularity yet.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2013
$20m
SERIES C
Sep 2012
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $43.2m
Company HQ
Belden Place, San Francisco, CA
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