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Technical Program Manager
Instagram
New York, NY, United States
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Technical Program Manager, Instagram Design Systems & Velocity
Over 800 million people use Instagram, which means jobs here offer countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization. Instagram was built to strengthen relationships through shared experiences. Our app has played a critical part in forming meaningful communities where people can connect with each other and share what matters most to them.
Join a collaborative and passionate team working to make Instagram a best in class experience. Our work focuses on ensuring Instagram's engineering and product teams can ship and iterate on products at scale. As a Technical Program Manager on Design Systems & Developer Velocity, you will play a critical role across product and engineering teams. You will work to identify key challenges faced during product development, and partner with engineering leads to drive programs that address these challenges and enable new standard design and engineering components to accelerate pace of development. The right candidate will be an excellent communicator, knowledgeable in mobile product development, passionate about design systems and standards, comfortable in a flat, fast moving organization, excited to collaborate, and focused squarely on impacting the Instagram engineering and design teams and product. This is a full-time position based in our New York City office.
Responsibilities
• Partner with engineering teams across Instagram to understand biggest bottlenecks in building high quality UI
• Work with the Instagram Design Systems and Developer Velocity teams, as well as design, engineering and content strategy leads across Instagram to create, prioritize and drive end to end programs for new and improved standard design and engineering systems
• Develop success metrics and work with engineering teams to define a plan to hit goals
• Communicate program updates, risks and new opportunities to leaders and stakeholders
• Drive internal launches for new design and engineering components, systems, and tools
• Contribute to long term vision for the Instagram designer and developer experience
• Establish excellent working relations with all partners with an emphasis on unblocking team members when they are stuck and providing day-to-day coordination, tracking and quality assurance for project and tasks
• Drive internal process improvements, remove gaps across teams, and ensure teams are working on high impact projects that align with company mission and goals
• Work independently with minimal supervision
Minimum Qualifications
• B.S. in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in Engineering Program Management, Design Program Management or Product Management.
• Experience in software project life cycle management.
• Communication, coordination, and organizational skills and experience getting things done in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of mobile development environments
• Proven ability to work directly with highly technical engineering teams and senior management.
• Leadership skill and an ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals.
• Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team.
• Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated critical thinking capabilities
Preferred Qualifications
• Mobile or start-up environment and technical management experience