# Principal Technical Program Manager, Developer Productivity

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $261k – $365k/yr
**Experience:** 14+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, AI Tools, developer productivity, CI/CD, Code Review, llm governance, Agentic Workflows, dora, space, Observability, developer environments, Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead company-wide programs for AI-assisted engineering workflows and agentic development at Reddit. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and ML teams to define operating models, build measurement systems, drive cultural change, and ensure safe, measurable AI adoption across the SDLC. Requires 14+ years experience and deep fluency in dev productivity and AI systems.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- 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 how teams adopt paved paths, how guardrails are applied, how success is measured, and how risks are escalated or resolved.
- Create company-level alignment across infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, security, compliance, product engineering, machine learning, and executive stakeholders. Influence without authority and create clarity across teams with different incentives.
- Drive the social and cultural change required for AI-assisted development to succeed company-wide. Build trust, address skepticism directly, create feedback loops, and help teams move from experimentation to durable adoption.
- Develop communication and enablement mechanisms that bring engineers and leaders along for the journey, including leadership forums, working groups, training, documentation, rollout plans, and clear narratives 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 industry-aligned 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 in a way that preserves engineering creativity while ensuring security, cost management, privacy, compliance, and operational safety are not afterthoughts.
- 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.

## Who You Are
- 14+ years of experience across technical program management, engineering, infrastructure, developer tools, platform engineering, AI tooling, or related technical domains.
- Led multi-year, multi-organization technical programs with executive visibility and ambiguous ownership. Comfortable operating with senior executives while understanding the technical details that make or break execution.
- Deep fluency in developer productivity systems: CI/CD, code review, testing, deployment, observability, developer environments, internal platforms, or AI-assisted development workflows.
- Understand AI and LLM-enabled software development beyond personal productivity. Can reason about agent workflows, governance, evals, telemetry, code quality, review burden, cost controls, and operational risk.
- Highly data-driven, but skeptical of shallow metrics. Know how to build measurement systems that connect workflow improvements to business and engineering outcomes.
- Exceptional cross-functional operator and communicator. Bring people together, create clarity through the right leadership channels, build trust across functions, and translate complex technical and organizational change into clear narratives for engineers, managers, executives, and cross-functional partners.
- Led meaningful organizational change, not just program execution. Know how to shift behavior across teams by listening to concerns, creating shared language, building confidence, and making the desired path easier and more valuable than the status quo.
- Get things done. Not satisfied with status reporting, process theater, or activity metrics. Land outcomes and help teams understand the difference between motion and impact.
- Pragmatic and iterative. Can introduce structure without making teams feel constrained, and know when a paved path should be adopted through value rather than enforcement.

## 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 engineering environment.
- Experience building adoption strategies for internal platforms or developer tools where success depends on trust, usability, and measurable value.
- Experience leading cultural transformation, change management, or broad adoption programs across engineering organizations.
- Familiarity with engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or similar multi-dimensional measurement approaches.
- Experience working in fast-moving environments where technical strategy, organizational design, and execution mechanisms are evolving at the same time.

## Benefits
- 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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