Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads Delivery Infrastructure

Hidden Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-eligible within US

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead optimization of large-scale advertising and shopping infrastructure. You will drive cross-team initiatives spanning catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems, collaborating with engineering leads across multiple service domains.

This role sits at the intersection of real-time serving infra, monetization, and AI-augmented program management practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Experience with large-scale serving, indexing, or retrieval systems.
• Strong analytical skills with dashboards and data-driven decisions.
• Excellent collaboration with senior engineering and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead programs that scale catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems across ads and commerce infrastructure.
• Drive cross-team modernization initiatives including migrations to new compute/storage platforms.
• Build and maintain program dashboards and risk/status reporting for stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering on reliability and incident-response for revenue-critical systems.
• Incorporate AI-enabled best practices and AI-assisted artifacts into program execution.
• Prototype AI-driven tooling to improve workflows and internal tools.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics

Dashboards

AI in PM

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

AI coding assistants

Data dashboards tools

Job description

Role overview

A senior Technical Program Manager role focused on leading infrastructure modernization programs for large-scale advertising and shopping systems. The position drives cross-team execution on catalog, indexing, and retrieval platform improvements while partnering with engineering leads across multiple service areas. Work sits at the intersection of real-time serving infrastructure, monetization systems, and AI-augmented program management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead programs that scale catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems to handle billions of items across shopping and ads infrastructure, partnering with engineering leads across catalog, search infrastructure, and retrieval
• Drive cross-team execution on modernization initiatives including migrations to next-generation compute and storage platforms, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks across service owners
• Build and maintain program dashboards and reporting that give engineering and business stakeholders a clear view of progress, risk, and decisions
• Partner with engineering on reliability and incident-response initiatives for revenue-critical serving systems
• Use generative AI as a default operating model for program execution, including AI-assisted drafts of core artifacts, intake triage, status synthesis, action and decision extraction, and risk and dependency tracking
• Prototype solutions using AI coding assistants to augment decisions through data analysis or simplify processes such as workflow helpers and internal tools

Requirements

• 5+ years of TPM or product ownership experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally within large-scale distributed systems, search and retrieval, or ads and monetization infrastructure
• Solid understanding of the principles behind large-scale serving, indexing, or retrieval systems and the tradeoffs involved in scaling them
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience building dashboards, interpreting data, and using insights to drive decisions
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with a track record of partnering with senior engineering and business stakeholders in high-visibility settings
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities across a fast-moving, multi-workstream roadmap
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Experience with ads, monetization, or data infrastructure
• Background turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms
• AI fluency including prompting, AI coding assistants for lightweight scripts and tools, and leveraging agents where appropriate
• Experience operating within AI governance expectations such as risk assessment, data handling, and model and output validation

Benefits and work setup

• Base salary range of $123,684 to $254,644 USD, plus equity
• Remote-eligible within the US with in-person collaboration expected one to two times every six months
• Open to US-based applicants only