# Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance

Hiring organization: [Reddit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/reddit)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/921dcda4-4e3c-43cc-92bc-bf8002c300e6

Listed on Reddit's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Location: Remote - United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 260800 – 365100 USD per year

## Summary

Reddit is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead company-wide performance initiatives spanning mobile, web, infrastructure, and data systems. This role suits experienced technical leaders who can drive multi-organization programs, build sustainable performance practices across teams, and shift engineering culture toward user-experience-focused decision-making.

_Our summary, not Reddit's wording._

## Required

- 14+ years in technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, or related technical domains
- Led multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership
- Deep fluency in performance and reliability systems including observability, app health, and user journey measurement
- Ability to reason about user experience, platform tradeoffs, technical debt, and organizational mechanisms for lasting improvements
- Highly data-driven with skepticism toward shallow metrics and ability to build meaningful measurement systems
- Exceptional cross-functional operator and communicator who builds trust across functions
- Experience leading meaningful organizational change and shifting behavior across teams
- Results-oriented focus on outcomes over status reporting or activity metrics

## Nice to have

- Experience leading performance, reliability, or client platform programs at large scale
- Hands-on experience with mobile or web performance optimization (startup time, rendering, caching, crashes)
- Experience building durable operating mechanisms after incident mobilizations
- Experience with experimentation systems, guardrail metrics, and multi-metric tradeoff evaluation
- Experience building adoption strategies for internal platforms or engineering practices
- Background in fast-moving environments where strategy, organizational design, and execution evolve simultaneously

Apply on Reddit's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7947049