Mobile Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager, Mobile, YouTube Create, Growth and Attribution

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• Experience with software development in Java, Kotlin, Swift, or Objective-C.
• Experience in leading engineering teams and driving user acquisition, onboarding, or metrics.
• Experience with mobile attribution providers (e.g., AppsFlyer, Adjust, Kochava) and implementing event-tracking schemas.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in leading and setting the technical direction for growth stacks and marketing technology.
• Experience building growth engines for products from scratch or re-architecting legacy onboarding flows, and with large-scale mobile applications and complex architectures within a social media or creator-focused ecosystem.
• Understanding of A/B testing methodologies, feature flagging, and experimentation platforms at scale.
• Understanding of data pipelines, SQL, and analytics integration to ensure data integrity between mobile clients and backend systems.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Android and iOS engineers specializing in product growth, attribution modeling, high-velocity experimentation. Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, rapid iteration, and technical excellence in growth engineering.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support career development for engineers navigating the intersection of product and infra.
• Drive the technical goal and strategy for YouTube Create growth stack, including onboarding flows, referral systems, and deep-linking infrastructure.
• Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle for attribution-related features, ensuring seamless integration with external marketing partners and internal data warehouses.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Marketing teams to define growth hypotheses and translate them into scalable technical solutions and work with YouTube Shorts and Ecosystem teams to align on cross-platform attribution and ensure YouTube Create remains a seamless entry point for new creators.

Experience Level

Senior Level