Principal Tech Program Manager, Sponsored Ads

Key job responsibilities

• Work with teams across engineering, product, operations, legal, UX, sales, and marketing to define requirements and deliver complex ad products that leverage generative AI.
• Lead daily stand-ups, track progress against key milestones, and lead technical conversations.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from early career university hires to senior executives.
• Represent the team in conversations and debates related to complex decisions, trade-offs, and solutions.
• Build relationships and manage by influence in a matrix organization to solve complex AI problems against tight timelines.
• Mentor senior and Principal TPMs and serve as a role model across the organization on TPM best practices (e.g., status reports, workback plans, executive communications).

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules