Principal Technical Program Manager, Performance

Reddit, Inc.

Principal Technical Program Manager leading company-wide performance initiatives at Reddit. Collaborating with engineering leaders to enhance user experience and build sustain initiatives.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $260,800 - $365,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Partner deeply with engineering teams as a technical peer.
Define and drive the operating model for sustained performance improvement.
Drive the organizational change required for performance to become a durable part of Reddit’s engineering culture.
Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey.
Build measurement systems that distinguish real user experience improvement from shallow metric movement.
Drive performance governance and adoption in a way that preserves team ownership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, client platforms, mobile or web platforms, performance engineering, reliability, observability, or related technical 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.
Understand performance beyond individual metrics.
Highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics.
Exceptional cross-functional operator and communicator.
Led meaningful organizational change, not just program execution.
Get things done, not satisfied with status reporting, process theater, or activity metrics.
Pragmatic and iterative; can introduce structure without making teams feel constrained.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

technical program managementperformance engineeringreliabilityobservabilityinfrastructureclient platformsmobile platformsweb platformsuser journey measurementrelease quality

Soft Skills

cross-functional communicationorganizational change leadershipdata-driven decision makingpragmatic problem solvingiterative developmentstakeholder engagementteam ownership preservationprogram executioncritical thinkingcollaboration