Technical Program Manager, Instagram Feed & Relevance

Instagram is looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive engineering programs that deliver high quality, entertaining content across our Explore and Reels products and increase discovery for our amazing community of creators. As a TPM on Instagram Feed & Relevance, you will work closely with engineers, data scientists and product teams to build roadmaps, create frameworks and implement new technologies that empower your teams to iterate quickly. You will work horizontally to balance the concerns of entertainment, personalization and content diversity in order to evolve how Instagram connects people with their interests and helps them discover new ones. You will play a key role in making our infrastructure more reliable and scalable as we grow. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, adept at collaborating cross-functionally, has experience with large scale systems, and familiarity working with machine learning or content ranking models. This is a constantly evolving space, and the TPM is expected to be flexible and pivot based on the problems we are trying to solve. This person will be highly organized, productive, poised, and able to thrive in high-pressure, time-sensitive scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones for your team
• Build subject matter expertise in your area and stay up to date on technological developments
• Develop and manage cross-functional programs, facilitating relationships across Instagram, Facebook, and external partners to identify risks, manage dependencies and optimize resources
• Collaborate with engineering and product management partners to define roadmap and long-term strategy for your team’s domain
• Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions, remove roadblocks, and deliver on high-impact projects with a focus on efficiency, performance, and quality
• Assess business impact, prioritize initiatives and drive accountability in a fast-paced environment through project planning and strong interpersonal skills

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in social media, software, internet or digital media industries
• Technical knowledge and/or experience with content ranking and machine learning fundamentals

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