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Sr Engineering Technical Program Manager - Productivity Engineering

AI summary of the role

Thumbtack seeks a Senior TPM to lead the Productivity Engineering program across Developer Experience, Client Infrastructure, Backend Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering.

What you’ll do

  • Own end-to-end program management for the 50+ member Productivity Engineering team across DevEx, Client Infrastructure, Backend Infrastructure, and SRE.
  • Drive complex cross-team programs such as large-scale platform migrations and tooling adoptions across multi-quarter timelines.
  • Define success through developer adoption and productivity impact using DORA, SPACE, and GetDX frameworks.
  • Drive AI developer tooling strategy and adoption, including agentic workflow enablement, tool consolidation, and ROI measurement.

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years in Technical Program Management within platform engineering, developer experience, or infrastructure.
  • Strong technical fluency across CI/CD, build systems, code review tooling, microservices, containerization, observability, and cloud-native platforms.
  • Fluency in the AI developer tooling landscape including coding assistants, agentic workflows, and cloud dev environments.
  • Track record of driving adoption of internal tools and platforms with a focus on developer satisfaction and usage.

Technologies

CI/CD · build systems · code review tooling · microservices · containerization · observability · cloud-native platforms · AI developer tooling · agentic workflows · cloud dev environments

About Thumbtack

Marketplace app connecting U.S. homeowners with 300K+ local service pros (plumbers, electricians, cleaners) for repairs, maintenance and home improvement projects.

Private Late · 1000–2000 people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

high-impact technical solutions and programs. It’s our mission to help all of Thumbtack scale and get more done through technology and cross-functional alignment. About the Role How engineers write software is changing fast. AI-assisted and agentic development workflows are reshaping how code gets written, reviewed, tested, and deployed—and the platform infrastructure underneath all of it has to evolve just as quickly. CI/CD, build systems, code review, observability, developer tooling, cloud dev environments, and service reliability are the foundation that determines how fast and how well product engineering can ship. We’re looking for a Senior TPM who leads from the front—someone who can credibly see around corners, participate in architectural planning and design, and ensure platform investments actually land with the engineers who depend on them. You’ll own this program across
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