Director, Technical Program Management, Messaging

Director, Technical Program Management, MessagingMessenger’s mission is to build a universal way for people to connect and be closer together around the world. Today, well over a billion people regularly use Messenger as their way to stay in touch with friends and family. Messenger makes it easy and fun to connect, whether it’s sharing special moments from home or catching up with a friend, and helps people connect and share no matter where they are in the world. Few companies can service such a broad, diverse global community at this level of scale. We are at a critical juncture as we build out new product experiences, setting high standards of experience quality, and making it easier to connect with others than ever before, while ensuring the privacy and safety of our community.

The Director, Technical Program Management, Messaging, would be responsible for building and leading a world-class team of Technical Program Managers, partnering in establishing strategy and direction, leading from the front in partnership with cross-functional roles such as Product Management, Engineering, Design and Analytics, and blazing the path for next-generation products and platforms in messaging. You will lead a team that has end-to-end ownership of critical initiatives, working to deliver a messaging experience that is not only performant, stable and high quality, but is also private, secure and safe.

The ideal candidate will have the deep technical and program management expertise needed to provide support to a high performing team that is working to drive results across multiple complex, large scale initiatives. They will be an inspirational leader that can win trust and establish alignment with a multidisciplinary array of cross-functional partners, and leverage this trust to exert influence across all phases of the product development lifecycle. They will have demonstrated experience building, mentoring and nurturing technical program management or engineering teams of 50 or more, operating at scale in a highly transformative environment. They will be an innovative, intellectually curious problem solver who does not need to have the “correct” answer to everything but, rather, is able to quickly steer the conversation toward a productive programmatic solution by building and driving consensus.