Senior Technical Program Manager Ads

Lead Shopify Ads programs using technical judgment, distributed systems knowledge, and cross-functional execution across Engineering, Product, and Data Science.

As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, you will build and scale advertising technology connecting merchants, advertisers, and audiences. You will translate strategy into roadmaps, guide technical decisions, and deliver measurable outcomes across interdependent teams. Your work may span ad serving, targeting, campaign management, measurement, experimentation, data infrastructure, and reliability.

• Drive technical programs from discovery through launch and optimization
• Translate business priorities into roadmaps and measurable outcomes
• Evaluate architecture, APIs, data flows, and technical trade-offs
• Align Engineering, Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders
• Establish metrics, risk management, and launch readiness mechanisms

• Extensive technical program management or related technical experience
• Track record delivering complex, cross-organizational engineering programs
• Strong judgment in distributed systems, APIs, or data platforms
• Ability to influence without authority and navigate ambiguity
• Familiarity with Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity

Bring technical program leadership, advertising expertise, and data-driven execution to Shopify Ads platform initiatives.