Facebook

Director, Technical Program Management - Ads Platform and Experiences

Posted on: 15 Mar 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

The Ads Platform and Experiences team is responsible for innovating, building, and supporting the Ads Manager Product and Platform, which is used by millions of businesses everyday for running ads on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Audience Network. In this role, you will be at the cutting edge of innovation in the advertising space. We are looking for a Director of TPM to lead a diverse team of Technical Program Managers in charge of developing and managing the core platform and product experiences. In this role, you will be responsible for driving both the initiatives related to scaling the product experiences and the foundational quality for building a large scale enterprise grade product. The ideal candidate for this role will have both deep technical and program expertise that can drive results with agility and leadership. An inspirational team leader who has experience managing large teams and is capable of influencing and gaining support from cross-functional leaders. A successful leader will bring their knowledge of building large scale enterprise products with empathy for building highly reliable, scalable, and performant systems.

Director, Technical Program Management - Ads Platform and Experiences Responsibilities

* Define and lead product execution strategy for multiple areas of products and platform.

* Build and lead a team of TPMs capable of scaling with Facebook through a period of continued high-growth while forging tight partnerships with cross-functional leaders.

* Demonstrate an ability to structure an organization and optimize it for execution, including attracting top-tier talent and filing out gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth.

* Manage from the front, prioritize, and drive the bigger mission forward by translating vision into results.

* Manage, mentor, and grow the existing product technical program management teams.

* Build and lead an organization with customer focus and effective communication with a focus on decisive, fast-moving solutions, quick and constructive resolutions to conflicts, and a no barriers mentality.

* Serve as an evangelist for the team and overall culture, both internally and externally.

* Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.

* Understand Facebooks strategic and competitive position and deliver products that are recognized best in the industry.

Minimum Qualifications

* B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent technical experience.

* 15+ years of technical product/program management and/or software engineering experience.

* 7+ years of experience managing teams, including experience managing managers.

* Experience either in building large scale enterprise product/systems or product at scale.

* Experience moving technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics, growth examples, return, etc.

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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.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

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.

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