Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance
AI summary of the role
Reddit seeks a Principal TPM to lead company-wide performance programs spanning mobile, web, and infrastructure.
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What you’ll do
- Partner with Client Platforms, product engineering, Infrastructure, data science, and senior technical leaders to translate performance strategy into executable programs across mobile, web, and shared platform systems.
- Define and drive the operating model for sustained performance improvement, including prioritization, measurement, regression prevention, and risk escalation.
- Drive organizational change to make performance a durable part of Reddit’s engineering culture, moving teams from reactive efforts to shared standards and repeatable mechanisms.
- Develop communication and enablement mechanisms including leadership forums, working groups, documentation, and decision reviews.
What you’ll bring
- 14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, mobile/web platforms, performance engineering, reliability, observability, or related domains.
- Led multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership.
- Deep fluency in performance and reliability systems: client platforms, app health, observability, experimentation, release quality, user journey measurement, infrastructure, or production readiness.
- Highly data-driven with ability to build measurement systems connecting technical improvements to user, business, and engineering outcomes.
Technologies
mobile performance · web performance · client platforms · observability · experimentation · release quality · infrastructure · app startup · rendering · caching
About Reddit
Operates interest-based online communities and monetizes high-intent conversations through ads, search/AI products, and content licensing.
Public · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance to lead company-wide programs that improve the speed, reliability, and quality of Reddit’s user experience. This role will partner with engineering leaders in product engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, data science, and senior technical leadership to make performance a measurable, durable, and consistently protected part of how Reddit builds and ships
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance to lead company-wide programs that improve the speed, reliability, and quality of Reddit’s user experience. This role will partner with engineering leaders in product engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, data science, and senior technical leadership to make performance a measurable, durable, and consistently protected part of how Reddit builds and ships software. Performance is foundational to user trust, engagement, and long-term growth. This role will help Reddit build the path for sustained performance improvement: broad enough to work across platforms and organizations, focused enough to address current issues, and measurable enough to prove whether we are improving the lived experience of users. Just as importantly, this role will help bring teams along for that change, building trust across functions and helping Reddit evolve how we make performa [... source excerpt omitted ...] execution processes and reduce inefficiencies to build overall scale. This role reports into the TPM team within Reddit's Engineering Operations organization. As a Principal TPM, you will operate at executive and company scope, shaping strategy across multiple organizations, creating alignment where ownership is ambiguous, and setting the bar for how Reddit executes complex technical programs. High-quality technical program management is a distinct and high-value skill set, and while this role does not involve direct people management, it is part of Reddit's organizational leadership. At this level, success means delivering programs while also changing how teams think, collabora [... source excerpt omitted ...] dards, and behaviors can take root across the company. What You'll Do You will own and drive programs across Reddit's Performance portfolio, spanning mobile and web performance, client reliability, critical user journeys, observability, experimentation guardrails, release quality, and long-term performance operating mechanisms. You will partner deeply with engineering teams as a technical peer, not from the stratosphere, but in the details, bringing programs to completion, balancing risk across systems and organizations, and ensuring execution stays aligned to Reddit's long-term performance strategy. In this role, you will: Partner with Client Platforms, product engineering
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