Technical Program Manager — Ads Ecosystem

About the role

The Ads organization drives revenue growth for Meta by building ads products for every business model and across multiple verticals. The Technical Program Manager (TPM) is responsible for leading and growing the TPM organization that drives the development of the core platforms, systems, and applications to support 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, excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and a track record of cross-organizational collaboration. 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 thrive in a fast-paced environment serving customers at massive scale, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas.
• Articulate the technology, requirements, goals, and milestones of your team.
• Work with engineering and product management leadership to define and revise the long-term strategy for the organization.
• Develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep leadership informed on progress.
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions.
• Set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential setbacks.
• Ensure the team’s work focuses on the highest priority partner and customer needs.
• Align plans, manage dependencies, and drive execution across multiple organizations to deliver broad solutions.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management.
• Proven communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in growing organizations and developing a team culture.
• Knowledge of software development processes and ML/AI technologies.
• Understanding of best practices for both traditional and machine-learned systems.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI, ML, and Generative AI to build solutions.
• Experience with online advertising technologies, applications, and systems.
• Experience scaling large platform and system growth.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.

Pay

$199,000/year to $272,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.