Senior Technical Program Manager, Cost & Efficiency - San Francisco, CA
Hospitable.com, San Francisco
Senior Technical Program Manager, Cost & Efficiency - San Francisco, CA
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Job Description
Location : San Francisco Bay Area — On-site or willing to relocate
Salary : $196,000 – $220,000 + equity + benefits
Hiring Manager : Sat Kriya Khalsa – Sr. Director, TPM / Chief of Staff to CTO
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.