Principal Technical Program Manager, Developer Productivity

Details

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager, Developer Productivity to lead company-wide programs for AI-assisted engineering workflows. This role will partner with engineering leaders in infrastructure, developer productivity, security, product engineering, ads, machine learning, and senior technical leadership to make AI-native development safe, measurable, scalable, and effective across Reddit.

Reddit is entering a new era of software development. AI and agentic workflows are changing how code is planned, written, reviewed, tested, and shipped. Used well, these tools can help engineers move faster with higher confidence. Used poorly, they can increase complexity, review burden, operational risk, and cost. This role will help Reddit build the path for agentic development: flexible enough for teams to experiment, opinionated enough to protect quality, and measurable enough to prove whether AI is increasing delivered value rather than just activity.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive programs across Reddit's Developer Productivity and AI portfolio, spanning agent infrastructure, AI-assisted code review, developer environments, LLM governance, developer tooling, AI workflow measurement, and software delivery automation.
• Partner with Developer Productivity and Infrastructure leaders to translate strategy into executable programs across code review, agent infrastructure, self-service LLM access, evaluation and observability systems, development environments, and safe agent workflows across the software development lifecycle.
• Define and drive the operating model for AI-native developer productivity, including adoption of paved paths, application of guardrails, success measurement, and risk escalation/resolution.
• Create company-level alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders; influence without authority.
• Drive the social and cultural change required for AI-assisted development to succeed company-wide: build trust, address skepticism, create feedback loops, and move teams from experimentation to durable adoption.
• Develop communication and enablement mechanisms (leadership forums, working groups, training, documentation, rollout plans) that connect workflow change to business and engineering outcomes.
• Build measurement systems that distinguish real productivity from vanity metrics; partner with engineering and data teams to define metrics such as design-to-test time, test-to-launch time, review turnaround, change failure rate, time to restore service, AI-authored code quality, AI-assisted pull request load, migration throughput, and developer satisfaction.
• Drive AI governance and adoption while ensuring security, cost management, privacy, compliance, and operational safety are considered.
• Use technical judgment to challenge assumptions, identify systemic risks, and guide tradeoffs across AI tooling, CI/CD, code review, deploy automation, developer environments, and production reliability.

Requirements

• 14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains.
• Experience leading multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership.
• Deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows.
• Understanding of AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity, including agent workflows, governance, evals, telemetry, code quality, review burden, cost controls, and operational risk.
• Highly data-driven mindset and experience building measurement systems that connect workflow improvements to business and engineering outcomes.
• Exceptional cross-functional operation and communication skills; ability to create clarity and build trust across engineers, managers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience leading organizational change (not just program execution) to shift behavior across teams.
• Strong execution focus: able to deliver outcomes and minimize activity-only metrics.
• Pragmatic and iterative approach to introducing structure without overly constraining teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading developer productivity, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, or AI tooling programs at large scale.
• Experience with LLM platforms, AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or AI governance in an enterprise environment.
• Experience building adoption strategies for internal platforms or developer tools where trust, usability, and measurable value determine success.
• Experience leading cultural transformation, change management, or broad adoption programs across engineering organizations.
• Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or similar.
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms evolve concurrently.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency

The base salary range for this position is: $260,800 - $365,100 USD.

This job posting may span more than one career level. In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Final offers are determined by multiple factors including skills and experience.

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