Director, Technical Program Management (ranking Ai)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA

Director, Technical Program Management for Ranking AI within Meta's Monetization group, focusing on Recommendation Systems AI for Ads. The role involves leading the technical execution strategy, defining long-term strategy, developing end-to-end program plans, managing and growing TPM teams, and ensuring successful program delivery. Requires a strong background in the full ML lifecycle, scaling AI-powered projects, and integrating AI tools responsibly.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and lead technical execution strategy for multiple product and platform areas
  2. Articulate the technology, requirements, goals, and milestones of your team
  3. Work with engineering and product management leadership to define and revise the long-term strategy for the organization
  4. Work with the team to develop end-to-end program plans, influence teams to deliver against them, and keep the org and leadership informed on progress
  5. Manage, mentor, and grow the existing product technical program management teams

Skills

Required

  • B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
  • 10+ years of people management experience leading teams to deliver technical programs or products from inception to delivery
  • Proven communication skills
  • Proven interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional team
  • Experience building, growing, and leading a technical program management organization through design and execution of large infrastructure, tools and applications
  • Experience in growing organizations and developing a team culture
  • Knowledge of software development processes and ML and AI technologies
  • Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems
  • Experience in scaling large platform and system growth
  • Experience with online Advertising technologies, applications, and systems
  • Experience with using AI, ML, and Generative AI to build solutions
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years of software industry experience
  • 10+ years of people management experience
  • Experience building, growing, and leading a technical program management organization
  • Experience in growing organizations and developing a team culture
  • Experience with online Advertising technologies, applications, and systems
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development

Other signals

  • advancing and deploying state-of-art Recommendation Systems AI
  • developing new modeling architectures
  • advancing the scale limit through model-hardware co-design
  • translating research to production with high velocity
  • driving product and program growth through machine learning (ML) technologies
  • leading AI-powered projects that span across modeling teams and require close collaboration with infrastructure teams
  • full machine learning lifecycle—from raw data to features and modeling to training, inference, and debugging
  • integrating AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration)