Technical Program Manager, People Products

About the role

• Technical Program Manager, People Products | Tesla (People)
• Location: PALO ALTO, California | Req ID: 272894 | Job Type: Full-time
• What to Expect

We’re hiring a builder-minded Technical Program Manager to design, ship, and continuously improve the systems and programs that shape every Tesla employee’s journey — from offer through every milestone that follows.

These are high-stakes, high-visibility programs where accuracy, scale, and trust are critical: when they work, no one notices; when they break, everyone does.You’ll work across engineering, business partners, and leadership to build programs from first principles. Rather than copying what other companies do, you’ll deeply understand what Tesla actually needs and deliver it.

The ideal candidate treats programs like products — instrumenting them, measuring their impact, and iterating based on data. You’re equally comfortable writing requirements, running SQL queries, and reviewing pull requests.

What You'll Do

• Configure, test, and deploy LLM-powered features and agent tools in partnership with IT/Engineering teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, and find where SI can remove real bottlenecks in processes, systems, and analytics
• Own program roadmaps, milestones, risks, and dependencies, defining success metrics and using usage data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement and clear stakeholder updates
• Partner with subject-matter experts, legal, and stakeholders to curate and govern the content behind our SI systems, making sure it's accurate, current, cited, and appropriately access-controlled
• Scale SI tools that prove valuable for one team across the People org, building them into the way teams already work so adoption sticks and information stays accurate and up to date
• Establish best practices for SI system usage, document workflows, maintain SOPs, and create guides and training so non-technical teams can serve themselves

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• A track record of building and shipping things end to end, not just coordinating others who do
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with enough technical depth to partner closely with engineering and dig into how systems work
• Hands-on understanding of how LLM tools work, including knowledge bases, document ingestion, prompting, and answer-quality validation
• First-principles problem solving: you work out what's actually needed instead of copying what exists
• Strong written communication, for both engineers and non-technical audiences
• Product instinct: you can tell when something feels wrong to a user, not just when it crashes
• Comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, and moving fast in an environment where accuracy matters

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

Expected Compensation$96,800 - $217,200/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.