What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Program Manager, Cost & Efficiency position at Discord?
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there's one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform : play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
To ensure our platform continues to deliver value at scale, we're committed to optimizing costs while maintaining exceptional user experiences. We're seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to help lead initiatives that track, manage, and reduce infrastructure, operational, and data costs across Discord.
About the Role As a Senior TPM for Cost & Efficiency , you'll collaborate with teams across infrastructure, data, and machine learning to identify and execute cost-saving opportunities. This role combines technical expertise, strategic thinking, and program management to drive efficiencies in how Discord leverages resources. You'll also partner with leaders across engineering and product to help them understand the financial impact of their decisions, ensuring sustainable growth for the platform.
What You'll Do
- Optimize Infrastructure Costs : Work closely with infrastructure, data, and ML teams to identify, track, and implement strategies to reduce infrastructure expenses.
- Reduce Data Query Costs : Collaborate with data science and data engineering teams to analyze and optimize query and analysis costs.
- Analyze Cost-to-Serve : Partner with engineering and product leaders to understand the cost-to-serve key features, providing actionable insights to guide decision-making.
- Scalable Cost Attribution Platform : Collaborate with engineering teams to design and build a platform for cost metadata, laying the foundation for cost observability and alerting.
- Run Capacity Management Programs : Manage capacity planning initiatives with cloud vendors to ensure cost efficiency and alignment with resource requirements.
- Support Product Teams : Act as a consultant to product teams, helping them evaluate the cost implications of new feature development and deployment.
- Vendor Management : Serve as the primary point of contact for infrastructure vendors, managing negotiations, evaluating offers, overseeing accounts, and handling vendor relationships.
What You Bring
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How to Apply If you're passionate about driving cost efficiencies and delivering sustainable growth at scale, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and help shape the future of Discord!
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $168,000 to $185,000 equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.
Why Discord?
Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!
Salary : $168,000 - $185,000
