Technical Program Manager - Ranking AI

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive the evolution of its cloud-scale infrastructure. You will partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, align priorities, and lead large-scale programs across capacity and efficiency initiatives.

In this role you will establish milestones, track success metrics, manage dependencies, and shape product decisions that support a major transformation of developer experience and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management.
• Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery with an understanding of user needs and requirements.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and time zones with strong communication.
• Experience collaborating with technical management to develop systems and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead program teams to align objectives.
• Define program requirements, prioritize initiatives, and establish scope including roadmaps.
• Create communication plans to share status, risks, and challenges.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and scope changes.
• Lead technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation.
• Establish and monitor metrics and performance indicators for cross-functional execution.
• Address long-term infrastructure challenges with engineering leaders and stakeholders.
• Shape product decisions to align with company initiatives.
• Lead process improvements and drive automation across teams.

Skills

12+ years experience

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Technical program management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Meta is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive the evolution of its state-of-the-art cloud-scale infrastructure. With a vast physical footprint and support for a wide range of products and services, Meta's infrastructure is undergoing a major transformation—streamlining the developer experience, optimizing efficiency at scale, and supporting cutting-edge web and AI workloads.As a TPM focused on software engineering investments within core infrastructure, capacity, and efficiency teams, you will play a key role in this transformation. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams, you will identify technical challenges, develop roadmaps, scope programs to align with business priorities, establish milestones and success metrics, and lead large-scale cross-functional initiatives to successful completion.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead effective program teams to ensure alignment and achieve common objectives
• Work closely with engineering and business stakeholders to define program requirements, prioritize initiatives, and establish scope, including shaping the roadmap and long-term strategy for partner teams
• Create and implement communication strategies to proactively share program status, challenges, and risks with stakeholders
• Proactively manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes by adjusting scope, schedule, and resources as needed to achieve optimal outcomes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases
• Establish and monitor key metrics, quality benchmarks, and performance indicators to drive cross-functional execution of program deliverables
• Anticipate and assess complex, long-term, and critical infrastructure challenges in partnership with engineering leaders and stakeholders
• Shape product decisions to align with overarching company initiatives
• Lead internal and external process enhancements across teams and functions, streamlining workflows and minimizing manual efforts through automation

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management
• Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery, with an understanding of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Experience working self-sufficiently across multiple teams, demonstrating critical thinking and providing thought leadership
• Experience in communicating and collaborating with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Experience in organizational coordination and building work relationships across multidisciplinary teams and partners in different time zones
• Experience in analytical thinking and problem-solving for large-scale systems, such as cloud-scale storage systems

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with capacity planning and resource optimization for AI workloads
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, ranking systems, or recommendation platforms
• Experience with distributed systems architecture and large-scale data processing
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience leading programs across geographically distributed teams
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)