Technical Program Manager, Risk & Trust Programs

Meta; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 199,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Risk organization seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead large-scale risk programs across engineering, product, legal, policy, and compliance. You will design, build, and scale frameworks, controls, and tooling to keep Meta's products and infrastructure trustworthy at scale.

You will drive end-to-end risk management, from identifying risks to implementing and sustaining controls, with transparent communication and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• BS in EE, CS, ME, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in software engineering, hardware engineering, systems engineering, or technical product/program management.
• Knowledge of software and hardware development for large-scale hardware readiness, including end-to-end product development processes.
• Excel at clearly communicating complex technical investments simply and understandably.
• Experience delivering complex technology programs and products from inception through successful delivery.
• Knowledge of understanding user needs, gathering requirements, defining project scope.
• Experience working under own initiative across multiple teams, with critical thinking and thought leadership in ambiguous spaces.
• Experience defining and optimizing engineering processes at scale.
• Experience building cross-functional relationships and navigating complex challenges.
• Experience analyzing and solving complex technical problems in large-scale systems (root cause analysis, capacity planning, system design trade-offs, risk assessment).
• Experience building relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and partners in different time zones.
• Experience defining strategic direction and identifying new opportunities for impact across products, platforms, programs.
• Experience communicating at the executive level and influencing leadership and technical management teams.
• Knowledge of Large Language Models, machine learning, and scaling distributed systems.
• Knowledge of privacy, security, or regulatory compliance domains and how they apply to large-scale systems (keep the original instead if this role covers AI risk).
• Demonstrated experience in identifying new opportunities for the larger organization and influencing stakeholders.
• Proven commitment to scaling risk management and infrastructure for large-scale AI distributed compute systems.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead effective program teams to align objectives.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, policy, and compliance to define requirements and roadmap.
• Create and implement communication strategies for status, challenges, and risks.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, mitigate risks, and adjust scope, timeline, and resources.
• Lead end-to-end lifecycle of programs including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-launch support.
• Establish and track key metrics, quality benchmarks, and performance indicators.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Problem solving

Ambiguity navigation

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE, CS, ME, or related technical field

Job description

Meta's Risk organization seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead large-scale risk programs across engineering, product, legal, policy, and compliance. You will design, build, and scale frameworks, controls, and tooling to keep Meta's products and infrastructure trustworthy at scale.

You will drive end-to-end risk management, from identifying risks to implementing and sustaining controls, with transparent communication and measurable outcomes.