On Facebook App Commerce, our mission is to connect people through commerce. We believe every transaction between a buyer and seller helps communities grow, helps improve people's lives and creates financial opportunities. Hundreds of millions of people in 90+ markets come to Facebook every month to buy and sell across the Marketplace tab, buy and sell groups, and Pages. Marketplace is a truly unique product, sitting at the intersection of commerce and social.
Within Facebook App Commerce, Commerce Intelligence & Quality team provides the backend services that power commerce on Marketplace, by providing services like Ranking, Personalization, Search using Machine Learning. We're looking for a strong TPM for the Commerce Intelligence & Quality team, specially focusing on Search for Marketplace, Facebook Shops and Instagram. As a TPM, you will be a technical leader with the experience to drive complex programs both within the Commerce Intelligence & Quality team and across Facebook App Commerce organization.
Technical Program Manager - Marketplace Search Responsibilities
* Manage cross-functional programs by working with product development teams, business teams, as well as external partners around the world.
* Tackle complex problems with a strategic mindset and create programs for solving those problems.
* Maintain the team's focus on strategy and goal-oriented results.
* Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.
* Communicate status and big picture to the project team and management.
* Proactively identify upcoming risks, issues, and bottlenecks and resolve cross-team issues.
* Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation phases.
* Balance the business needs with technical constraints by building deep subject matter expertise for your area.
* Proactively identify inefficiencies that are holding the team back, and drive better, more efficient workflows.
* Drive internal process improvements, remove gaps across multiple teams and ensure teams are working on high-impact projects that align with the company mission and goals.
* Assess business impact, prioritize initiatives, and quickly react to a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Minimum Qualifications
* 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering or technical product/program management experience.
* Experience in delivering large scale consumer-facing tech programs or products from inception to launch.
* Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
* Experience using data to drive ruthless prioritization -- making tradeoffs between impact and hard dependencies.
* Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, multiple disciplines, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
* Experience communicating and working effectively with engineers and technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
* Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience.
* Analytical and problem solving experience including experience collecting data points across disparate projects.
* Experience in establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with Search technologies and Ecommerce.
* Experience building high scale services.
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About the Facebook company
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.
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Menlo Park, CA
Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.