Technical Program Manager — Ads Ecosystem

Meta; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Meta's Ads organization is seeking a senior Technical Program Manager to lead and grow the TPM function that supports large-scale ads platforms for diverse advertisers. You will guide technical execution, align multiple teams, and drive strategy across core systems and applications.

You should have a deep background in advertising tech, AI/ML, and program management, with stellar communication and a track record of delivering complex initiatives at scale in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years of software industry experience including systems engineering or technical product management.
• Strong communication and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience growing organizations and building team culture.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas.
• Articulate technology requirements, goals and milestones for your team.
• Collaborate with engineering and product management to shape long-term strategy.
• Develop end-to-end program plans and keep leadership informed on progress.
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams.
• Coordinate milestones, status updates and dependencies with stakeholders.

Skills

Technical leadership

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Milestone planning

Execution planning

Stakeholder alignment

Roadmapping

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Computer Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Summary:

The Ads organization drives revenue growth for Meta by building ads products for every business model and across multiple verticals. The TPM is responsible for leading and growing the TPM organization that drives the development of the core platforms, systems, and applications to support our advertisers and help grow Meta revenue. This role requires a deep understanding of advertising systems, advertisers, and AI/ML technologies. The right candidate will be a proven TPM leader, with a strong technical background, who has great communication skills both written and verbal, strong cross-organization collaborator, and a strong program management background. They will have demonstrated experience leading large projects across multiple software teams and an interest in being a very senior technical contributor focused on some of the largest and most complex work in the Ads Serving space. The candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced environment serving customers at massive scale, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.

Required Skills:

1. Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas.

2. Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones of your team.

3. Work with engineering and product management leadership to define and revise the long-term strategy for the organization.

4. Work with the broader organization to develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress.

5. Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions.

6. Work with teams to set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential setbacks.

7. Work with engineering to ensure the team’s work focuses on the highest priority partner team and customer needs.

8. Work across many organizations to align plans, manage dependencies, drive execution and deliver broad solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

2. 15+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience

3. Proven communication skills both written and verbal

4. Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional team

5. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience

6. Experience in growing organizations and developing a team culture

7. Knowledge of software development processes and ML and AI technologies

8. Understanding of best practices for both traditional and machine learned systems

9. Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with using AI, ML, and Generative AI to build solutions

2. Experience with online Advertising technologies, applications, and systems

3. Experience in scaling large platform and system growth

4. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

5. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

6. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$199,000/year to $272,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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