Senior Technical Program Manager, Search Ranking

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Who we are:

At Reddit, Technical Program Managers use technical judgment to define and drive large programs across multiple engineering teams. They are a welcome partner to product and engineering in project discussions impacting planning and execution. They engage with product, engineering, and business staff in determining root causes, identifying and selecting from alternative solutions, and use their technical expertise to understand the effects, impacts, and risks of a solution. They build execution processes and reduce inefficiencies.

The Technical Program Management Office (Tech PMO) exists to accelerate, scale, and empower all teams at Reddit to do their best work and advance our company’s mission. We operate from within the office of the CTO, maximizing our ability to galvanize and drive technical programs, processes and solutions to solve company-wide problems. 

What you’ll do:

We are looking for a Search-focused Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Tech PMO (Technical Program Management Office). In this role, you’ll drive technical programs in the Search product and engineering space, many of which will require you to work cross-functionally across multiple engineering teams at Reddit. You’ll partner with product and engineering leaders across the company to evaluate prioritization, tradeoffs, and risks related to the programs you own.

If you’re looking to positively and directly impact an already awesome company culture, along with evangelizing the TPM function at Reddit, we’d like to hear from you!

Key Focus Areas and Responsibilities:

High-quality technical program management is a distinct and high-value skillset, and while the roles generally don’t involve direct management, they are a part of the organizational leadership. In this role, you will: 

• Get Things Done. More than just displaying activity, counting sprint points, or delivering regular updates. You actually bring projects to completion, deliver real accomplishments for the business, and help your teams understand the difference.
• Dive into Details. You understand the details of their projects and help guide them with and in active partnership with their teams. You don’t just stay in the stratosphere or in an abstract process. You have the technical judgment to act as a partner with your teams in planning and decision-making.
• Make Work Repeatable. You create and improve processes that smooth the path for others and prevent and remove recurring organizational toil (and the lower quality bar that often allows). You reuse processes developed elsewhere, and aid in the adoption of standards where relevant.
• Mentor & Lead. You are good at, and enjoy, informally aiding others in developing key organizational and project skills. You’re a leader within your projects and support people in the process.
• Bring Order out of Chaos. You are known for leaving a program and the teams you support in a position of stronger organization than where they started, and those teams continue to succeed even when you are no longer specifically engaged in the project.

What We Can Expect From You:

• 6+ years of technical program management
• 3+ years of experience leading technical programs within the Search and/or ML space
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• A team player mentality with the ability to work collaboratively across all levels of the organization
• Proactive and curious by nature. You are creative and enjoy taking unique approaches to solve problems
• Pragmatic; you take an iterative approach to developing processes and systems
• Technical depth and judgment

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits 
• 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

 

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible