Senior TPM: AI-Powered Personalization & Growth

Tinder; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Vacation

Sick Days

Volunteer time and donations match

Health, vision, dental coverage

401(k) match

ESPP

Parental leave

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Free Tinder Gold

Job summary

Tinder is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive high‑impact, cross‑functional programs across Recs, Revenue, and Engagement. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and Localization to bring structure to rapidly evolving plans and ensure dependencies are resolved before they become blockers.

This hybrid role requires in-office collaboration three days a week and can be based in Los Angeles, CA or Palo Alto, CA.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Technical Program Management for consumer mobile products at scale, preferably supporting recommendations, ranking, or personalization; monetization (subscriptions, payments, or ads); or growth and lifecycle messaging.
• Proven ability to run a portfolio of concurrent programs across multiple teams, building delivery plans, dependency maps, release plans, and risk registers that stay current as priorities shift.
• Demonstrated success in partnering with PMs, engineering leads, and senior leadership, cultivating strong cross-functional relationships and influencing outcomes in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• AI fluency, with hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to automate routine program management work like status reporting, documentation, and dependency tracking, and to accelerate cross-functional communication.
• Expert-level proficiency in Jira and Jira Product Discovery, including configuring views, fields, and workflows, plus Confluence, Google Suite, and Figma.
• Expertise in agile methodologies and a deep understanding of PDLC and SDLC best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for Recs, Revenue, and Engagement programs from planning through launch.
• Act as connective tissue between Recs, Revenue, and Engagement and other product teams, tracking milestones and cross-team dependencies.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues by coordinating with teams to determine solutions and prioritize tasks; improve processes while maintaining high quality and velocity.
• Provide clear, timely communications to executive and senior leadership on program health with a recommended path forward.

Skills

Technical program mgmt

Cross-functional leadership

AI fluency

Jira

Confluence

Google Workspace

Figma

Agile methodologies

PDLC/SDLC best practices

Tools

Jira Product Discovery

Job description

Tinder is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive high‑impact, cross‑functional programs across Recs, Revenue, and Engagement. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and Localization to bring structure to rapidly evolving plans and ensure dependencies are resolved before they become blockers.

This hybrid role requires in-office collaboration three days a week and can be based in Los Angeles, CA or Palo Alto, CA.