BuzzFeed is seeking an Technical Program Manager for their core infrastructure group. The group is structured in 4 squads: Observability, Resilience, Security and Storage, which are distributed across our NYC, London, San Francisco offices.

BuzzFeed Tech cares about the engineering experience by empowering through tooling and automation. We share knowledge and improve our systems through architecture reviews, post-incident retrospectives, and documentation of best practices. We build for scale and support millions of users globally, and we optimize for improving the experience of those users and having an impact on our organization.

BuzzFeed has grown significantly in the past few years across our editorial teams and products, with groundbreaking news investigations and new brands such as Tasty. You would be joining an innovative company full of highly engaged people with the ambition to do great things, such as giving a voice to marginalised groups. You would be supported in helping grow our teams and cultivate a healthy environment to make BuzzFeed a happy and productive place to work. Data measurement and insight is embedded in everything we do, and Tech plays a central role in empowering our creative teams — we’d love for you to join us on this journey!a

About The Job:

We have built rig, our own platform as a service, to make it easy for other engineers to deploy and run their services. In the 2 years since we launched rig, there have been over 100,000 deploys, and we have over 400 services running on it today. However, we’re just getting started!

We are looking for a TPM to help distill our ambitions into a clear, user driven roadmap oriented around an infrastructure product vision that maps to BuzzFeed’s present and future business needs.

You Will:

• Work with a diverse and distributed group of infrastructure engineers to build tools to help them identify opportunities, spot patterns and remain motivated towards their goals.
• Establish, articulate and champion a infrastructure product vision that addresses critical business needs.
• Break down the vision into deliverable goals, and helping establish a productive product delivery cadence across the core infra squads
• Bring a user oriented focus to drive prioritization on product features.
• Partner with key internal engineering teams to understand the gaps within existing tools and services, and identify the best path forward.
• Make sure your team ships quality product. From defining features, writing specs, managing release checklists, communicating goals to team, setting a roadmap and prioritize requests, you’ll do whatever your team needs to do a good job and keep moving.
• Ensure product marketing and support are not left to the end. Help ensure that product roll outs are a smooth experience for our users.

About You:

• You are comfortable setting a long-term product vision for multidisciplinary teams.
• “User first” is part of your muscle memory.
• You have a story to tell about building, delivering, and supporting data tools, services, and products.
• You either have technical experience as an systems analyst or engineer
• You don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language of cloud providers, containerization, databases and pull requests.
• You are empathetic, curious, and pragmatic
• You have compassion and experience supporting, mentoring, and helping people achieve their career goals
• You are resourceful and adaptable
• You value and offer high-context communication, seeking mutual clarity in any exchange
• You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
• You work collaboratively to deliver products

Life at BuzzFeed:

At BuzzFeed, we believe our work benefits from the diverse perspectives of our employees. As such, BuzzFeed celebrates inclusion and is committed to equal opportunity employment. As a BuzzFeed employee, you can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth via work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, Employee Resource Groups, and more
• An attractive compensation package, including salary and equity
• A generous and well-rounded benefits program featuring PTO and unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more
• No shortage of snacks, catered lunches, beverages, birthday treats... even leftovers from the Tasty kitchens in LA and NYC!