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) leads and grows the TPM organization that develops the core platforms, systems, and applications supporting advertisers and Meta’s revenue. This role requires deep expertise in advertising systems, advertisers, and AI/ML technologies.

The ideal candidate is a proven TPM leader with a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a track record of cross-organizational collaboration. They will have experience leading large projects across multiple software teams and a passion for contributing to complex work in the Ads Serving space. The role demands the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-scale environment with 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, drive execution, and deliver broad solutions across multiple organizations.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams.
• Experience growing organizations and developing 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 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.