Sr. Technical Program Manager - Ads

Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager – Ads

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we've grown to 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. This is life-defining work that directly impacts people's lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, creating a future with more voices and more choices.

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone. Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone.
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth.
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace—the week, not the quarter.
• Be resilient and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and thrive on, rather than endure, change.
• Bring critical thought and opinion, and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward.
• Work digital-first in your daily work.

Shopify's Technical Program Managers (TPMs) lead large-scale technical programs that build exceptional products for our merchants, enable entrepreneurship, and create new value for the world. TPMs drive execution, technical alignment, and measurable business impact across organizational boundaries, keeping teams focused on the highest-value outcomes and moving at the speed of a startup.

As a TPM supporting Ads, you'll partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders to build and scale the advertising technology that connects merchants, advertisers, and audiences. You'll help shape and deliver the platform capabilities that power relevant advertising experiences, improve campaign performance, and create sustainable business growth while protecting the customer experience.

This role goes beyond coordinating schedules and tracking milestones. You'll bring technical judgment to complex problems, connect platform architecture and product strategy to business outcomes, and drive execution across interdependent teams. You'll help teams navigate ambiguity, make informed trade-offs, identify risks early, and turn complex technical initiatives into clear, actionable plans that deliver results.

You'll operate across the advertising lifecycle, which may include ad delivery and serving, targeting and personalization, campaign management, measurement and attribution, experimentation, data and ML infrastructure, monetization, and platform reliability. You'll help establish the technical foundations and operating mechanisms needed to scale Shopify's advertising capabilities efficiently and responsibly.

We assess team fit and level throughout our interview process to ensure the best match for both candidates and our teams.

• Drive end-to-end technical program execution. Own complex, cross-functional programs from problem definition and technical discovery through planning, implementation, launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization. Establish clear goals, milestones, dependencies, owners, and success criteria.
• Connect technical delivery to business outcomes. Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes, balancing merchant and advertiser value, revenue opportunity, customer experience, engineering investment, and time to market.
• Navigate complex technical systems. Work closely with engineering leaders to understand system architecture, APIs, data flows, distributed…