Principal Technical Program Manager (Performance)

Join Reddit as a Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance. In this role, you will lead company-wide programs to improve the speed, reliability, and quality of Reddit's user experience. You will partner with engineering leaders across various teams and help build a culture of performance within the organization. This position requires a strong technical background, exceptional cross-functional communication skills, and a proven track record of driving meaningful organizational change.

• Lead company-wide programs to improve the speed, reliability, and quality of Reddit’s user experience.
• Partner with engineering leaders to make performance a measurable, durable, and consistently protected part of how Reddit builds and ships software.
• Drive the organizational change required for performance to become a durable part of Reddit’s engineering culture, moving teams from reactive efforts to shared standards and repeatable mechanisms.
• You are pragmatic and iterative. You can introduce structure without making teams feel constrained
• You have led meaningful organizational change, not just program execution. You know how to shift behavior across teams by listening to concerns, creating shared language, and making the desired path easier than the status quo
• You get things done. You are not satisfied with status reporting, process theater, or activity metrics. You land outcomes and help teams understand the difference between motion and impact
• You are highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics. You know how to build measurement systems that connect technical improvements to user, business, and engineering outcomes
• You are an exceptional cross-functional operator and communicator. You bring people together, create clarity through the right leadership channels, build trust across functions, and translate complex technical and organizational change into clear narratives
• You have led multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership. You are comfortable operating with senior executives while still understanding the technical details that make or break execution
• You have 14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, mobile or web platforms, performance engineering, reliability, observability, or related technical domains
• You have deep fluency in performance and reliability systems: client platforms, app health, observability, experimentation, release quality, user journey measurement, infrastructure, or production readiness
• You understand performance beyond individual metrics. You can reason about user experience, platform tradeoffs, technical debt, regression prevention, and the organizational mechanisms required to make improvements last
• Experience leading performance, reliability, client platform, mobile platform, web platform, infrastructure modernization, observability, or experimentation programs at large scale
• Experience with mobile or web performance, including app startup, rendering, media delivery, networking, caching, crashes, hangs, release quality, or user journey performance
• Experience building durable operating mechanisms after incident, war room, or Code Yellow style mobilizations
• Experience with experimentation systems, holdouts, guardrail metrics, and tradeoff decisions where user experience, engagement, and business metrics need to be evaluated together
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms are evolving at the same time
• Experience building adoption strategies for internal platforms, observability systems, performance tooling, or engineering practices