Senior Technical Program Manager, Cost & Efficiency - San Francisco, CA

🧑‍💼 Role: Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), Cost & Efficiency

📍 Location: San Francisco Bay Area — On-site or willing to relocate

🕒 Type: Full-time

💰 Salary: $196,000 – $220,000 + equity + benefits

👤 Hiring Manager: Sat Kriya Khalsa – Sr. Director, TPM / Chief of Staff to CTO

🧠 Role Overview

As a Senior TPM on the Cost & Efficiency team, you’ll lead cross-functional programs to optimize infrastructure, data, and ML costs. You'll help design cost attribution platforms, manage vendor relationships (especially cloud services like AWS or GCP), and drive cost-conscious decision-making across product and engineering.

✅ What You’ll Do

• Optimize Infra & ML Costs: Identify, track, and execute cost reduction efforts across infra and data/ML teams.
• Track Data Query Costs: Work with DS and DE teams to control analysis and query costs.
• Analyze Cost-to-Serve: Quantify feature costs to inform trade-offs in product strategy.
• Build a Cost Attribution Platform: Lay the foundation for observability into resource consumption and costs.
• Manage Capacity Planning: Coordinate with cloud vendors to align on infrastructure needs and cost-efficiency.
• Advise Product Teams: Provide insight into the cost implications of feature development.
• Vendor Oversight: Own vendor relationships, negotiations, and cloud account strategy.

🧩 What You Bring

• Strong Data Analysis: Comfort building dashboards, cost breakdowns, and insightful visualizations.
• Program Management Experience: You’ve led cross-functional, cost-focused initiatives with measurable results.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: You're a bridge between infra, data, product, and finance.
• Strategic Thinking: Skilled at analyzing cost structures and providing scalable optimizations.
• Vendor Relationship Management: You’ve worked directly with GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
• Problem-Solver: Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and acts with urgency.

⭐ Nice-to-Have Experience

• Cost management in large-scale cloud environments
• Familiarity with Discord’s platform, architecture, or culture
• Experience using cost management tools (e.g., CloudHealth, GCP Billing exports, AWS Cost Explorer, etc.)

🔥 Why This Role Matters

Discord is at scale: 200M+ users/month and 1.5B+ hours of gaming monthly. Cost-efficiency and resource management are mission-critical to continued growth. This TPM role is highly strategic, driving long-term platform sustainability and setting standards for how infrastructure and data costs are managed company-wide.

💵 Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $196K – $220K
• Equity: Significant ownership opportunity
• Benefits: Health, retirement, equity, flexible time off, and relocation support (if applicable)
• Impact: Direct visibility with leadership, strategic influence, and measurable results

📣 Ready to Apply?

If you’re experienced in infra, cost tracking, vendor negotiations, and program leadership — and want to drive measurable cost savings at global scale — this is a high-impact role at a company where engineering excellence meets community impact.