Senior Manager, Ads Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Reddit's Ads team as a Senior Manager of Technical Program Managers (TPMs)! Lead and mentor a geographically dispersed team, driving cross-functional initiatives across multiple technical teams. You will focus on developing careers, setting guidelines, and providing hands-on coaching. Proactively identify resourcing needs, champion operational excellence, and contribute to the Ads strategy and roadmap. Engage with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality feature delivery and drive engineering process improvements. This role requires extensive experience in software, people management, digital ads, and leadership.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software industry experience, leading large-scale technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery, utilizing analytical skills to understand user needs, gather requirements, and define project scope
• 7+ years of people management experience, preferably with a geographically distributed team, that lead the delivery of technical programs or products from inception to delivery
• 5+ years of collective experience in digital ads platforms and monetization programs
• Experience in finding and growing talent through coaching, mentoring, and career development conversations
• Experience operating autonomously and leading across multiple teams, with senior stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones
• Negotiation skills in combination with effective communication experience, i.e. can translate high-level goals into tangible action plans, and vice-versa
• Experience communicating and representing work to senior leadership and framing discussions to gain valuable feedback and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Experience establishing and leading teams through multi-disciplinary relationships, including product management and engineering to drive product impact
• Analytical problem-solving experience with large-scale systems

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of geographically dispersed Ads Technical Program Managers in the Tech PMO
• Hire, develop, mentor, and coach them to build a high-performing team that scales and evolves with Reddit's rapid growth plans
• Proactively identify resourcing needs, working closely with Ads leadership to maintain full visibility of all projects in-flight and ensuring resource gaps are addressed efficiently
• Lead operational excellence and continuous process improvement workstreams in partnership with Leadership in the Ads organization
• Using technical monetization expertise, directly contribute to the strategy and roadmap of the teams you support. Ensure prioritization within your own team aligns with the wider company vision
• Engage with cross-functional teams to identify constraints, dependencies, and coordination areas, to deliver features and programs with a high level of quality
• Be a key driver of engineering process improvement in areas such as execution, progress tracking, and cross-functional communication

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave