{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ad12700ceecdcbc581ed5a23","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ad12700ceecdcbc581ed5a23","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ad12700ceecdcbc581ed5a23","title":"Senior Staff Technical Program Manager","description":"About Pinterest:\nMillions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.\nDiscover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.\nAt Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.\nThrough our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.\nAs a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager for Search Signals at Pinterest, you will lead company-level programs that are foundational to Pinterest's strategic transformation into a shopping and inspiration platform. This role is responsible for driving innovation and execution across offsite signals, content understanding, and relevance, with direct impact on multiple company OKRs. You will operate at the intersection of technical depth, cross-org influence, and long-term business strategy, shaping the future of search and personalization at Pinterest.\n\nWhat you'll do:\nStrategic Leadership & Vision\nEnvision and trailblaze the company's approach to leveraging offsite and onsite signals, anticipating future business, technical, and regulatory challenges.\nDrive the creation and evolution of the company-wide roadmap for signals, aligning business objectives with technical capabilities and directly impacting multiple company OKRs.\nIdentify opportunities for long-term business innovation and differentiation, ensuring Pinterest remains at the forefront of search and recommendation technologies.\nProgram Execution & Outcomes\nOversee and deliver company-level programs that span multiple organizations, managing ambiguity and risk at scale.\nLead the technical execution and delivery of signals initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality results across interconnected projects.\nDevelop and achieve program-specific metrics and targets, driving the resolution of complex technical and program management challenges through conceptual and innovative thinking.\nInfluence & Cross-Org Leadership\nInfluence at the VP/staff level, providing thought leadership in program and product management across Pinterest.\nGuide and motivate teams, fostering an environment of accountability, inclusion, and high performance.\nServe as the primary liaison with AI Research teams and other partner organizations to accelerate the adoption of new models (LLMs, VLMs, recommender systems) and ensure seamless integration into core Pinterest experiences.\nCollaboration & Communication\nEvangelize the vision and progress of signals programs to all levels of leadership, including the Executive Team, ensuring clear, concise, and impactful communication.\nDrive consensus and propose informed tradeoffs across the company, balancing technical, business, and regulatory considerations.\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and external data partners.\nTechnical & Domain Expertise\nDemonstrate expert technical understanding and judgment, guiding teams in solving complex technical challenges that span organizations.\nAuthor and advance best practices, tools, and methodologies for signals management, data acquisition, and model evaluation.\nShape the future of the signals domain at Pinterest through continuous research, learning, and mentorship of program managers and technical leads.\nAI-first execution & workflow design\nUse GenAI as the default operating model for TPM execution—starting from AI-assisted first drafts of core artifacts (charters, roadmaps, status reports, decision memos, RAID logs) and modernizing high-toil workflows (status synthesis, risk/dependency tracking, intake triage) into AI-first mechanisms where appropriate.\nPrototype lightweight AI-powered helpers and tools (\"vibe coding\") to improve signal quality monitoring, experiment readouts, and decision-making across Search and Signals.\nFollow Pinterest AI guidance for risk, governance, and safety-by-design—appropriately handling sensitive data, validating AI-generated outputs, documenting assumptions/limits, and ensuring AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy/compliance expectations before broad adoption.\nWhat we're looking for:\nBS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (10+ years in technical or analytical roles, with significant program leadership at company scale).\nDemonstrated ability to lead transformational, company-level programs with direct impact on multiple OKRs.\nDeep technical breadth and judgment, with expertise in search, recommendation systems, ML/AI, and large-scale data integration.\nAI-forward execution mindset – demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications at company scale—starting from AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions.\nWorkflow design, AI fluency, and data orientation – experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision quality using GenAI, data analysis, and automation (including \"vibe-coding\" small helpers or scripts with AI coding assistants).\nSafety-by-design AI fluency – experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, sensitive data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.\nProven track record of influencing at the VP/staff level and driving consensus across complex, cross-functional environments.\nExceptional communication, relationship-building, and organizational awareness.\nExperience with legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance in data-driven environments.\nExperience working with external data partners and negotiating data acquisition agreements is highly desirable.\nExperience with internationalization and supporting global product relevance is a plus\nExperience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable\nExperience with data acquisition, integration, and management, especially for offsite signals, is a plus\n\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\n\nIn-Office Requirement Statement:\nWe let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.\n\n#LI-REMOTE\n#LI-DM57\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.\nBy submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.","company":"Pinterest","rawCompany":"pinterest","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-13T11:37:05.647Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"519290","title":"Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services","slug":"web-search-portals-and-all-other-information-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Staff Technical Program Manager","description":"About Pinterest:\nMillions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.\nDiscover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.\nAt Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.\nThrough our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.\nAs a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager for Search Signals at Pinterest, you will lead company-level programs that are foundational to Pinterest's strategic transformation into a shopping and inspiration platform. This role is responsible for driving innovation and execution across offsite signals, content understanding, and relevance, with direct impact on multiple company OKRs. You will operate at the intersection of technical depth, cross-org influence, and long-term business strategy, shaping the future of search and personalization at Pinterest.\n\nWhat you'll do:\nStrategic Leadership & Vision\nEnvision and trailblaze the company's approach to leveraging offsite and onsite signals, anticipating future business, technical, and regulatory challenges.\nDrive the creation and evolution of the company-wide roadmap for signals, aligning business objectives with technical capabilities and directly impacting multiple company OKRs.\nIdentify opportunities for long-term business innovation and differentiation, ensuring Pinterest remains at the forefront of search and recommendation technologies.\nProgram Execution & Outcomes\nOversee and deliver company-level programs that span multiple organizations, managing ambiguity and risk at scale.\nLead the technical execution and delivery of signals initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality results across interconnected projects.\nDevelop and achieve program-specific metrics and targets, driving the resolution of complex technical and program management challenges through conceptual and innovative thinking.\nInfluence & Cross-Org Leadership\nInfluence at the VP/staff level, providing thought leadership in program and product management across Pinterest.\nGuide and motivate teams, fostering an environment of accountability, inclusion, and high performance.\nServe as the primary liaison with AI Research teams and other partner organizations to accelerate the adoption of new models (LLMs, VLMs, recommender systems) and ensure seamless integration into core Pinterest experiences.\nCollaboration & Communication\nEvangelize the vision and progress of signals programs to all levels of leadership, including the Executive Team, ensuring clear, concise, and impactful communication.\nDrive consensus and propose informed tradeoffs across the company, balancing technical, business, and regulatory considerations.\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and external data partners.\nTechnical & Domain Expertise\nDemonstrate expert technical understanding and judgment, guiding teams in solving complex technical challenges that span organizations.\nAuthor and advance best practices, tools, and methodologies for signals management, data acquisition, and model evaluation.\nShape the future of the signals domain at Pinterest through continuous research, learning, and mentorship of program managers and technical leads.\nAI-first execution & workflow design\nUse GenAI as the default operating model for TPM execution—starting from AI-assisted first drafts of core artifacts (charters, roadmaps, status reports, decision memos, RAID logs) and modernizing high-toil workflows (status synthesis, risk/dependency tracking, intake triage) into AI-first mechanisms where appropriate.\nPrototype lightweight 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company scale—starting from AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions.\nWorkflow design, AI fluency, and data orientation – experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision quality using GenAI, data analysis, and automation (including \"vibe-coding\" small helpers or scripts with AI coding assistants).\nSafety-by-design AI fluency – experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, sensitive data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.\nProven track record of influencing at the VP/staff level and driving consensus across complex, cross-functional environments.\nExceptional communication, relationship-building, and organizational awareness.\nExperience with legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance in data-driven environments.\nExperience working with external data partners and negotiating data acquisition agreements is highly desirable.\nExperience with internationalization and supporting global product relevance is a plus\nExperience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable\nExperience with data acquisition, integration, and management, especially for offsite signals, is a plus\n\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\n\nIn-Office Requirement Statement:\nWe let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.\n\n#LI-REMOTE\n#LI-DM57\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.\nBy submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. 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