Director of Product Research - Monetization

Pinterest is looking for a Director of Monetization Product Research to lead our team of managers and researchers that are designing the future of our ads products and tooling. We’re looking for a proven leader in the advertising space — a cross-functional, cross-organizational team player who thrives on teams that bias for action and results so teams ship fast at a high-quality bar. With this role you’ll have the opportunity to build world-class ads products that enable Pinners (consumers) to manifest their life on Pinterest and take action at the right points of that journey through sponsored products.

What you’ll do:

• Manage, build, mentor, and inspire a team of qualitative and quantitative product researchers, providing product direction and pushing the quality of the user experience.

• Build relationships with cross functional team members and executives across organizations, and effectively speak to process, product goals and team vision as a leader and a strong representative of research.

• Influence product strategy and lead your team in planning and executing research with a high strategic impact 

• Contribute beyond the Monetization pillar to the Design team as a whole (Product Design, Product Research, Content Design, Foundations, DesignOps). You’ll work to up-level the entire design team through your strong skillset and work closely with the other Directors and the Head of Design to build a world-class design team.

• Hungry to learn and evolve. From leadership skills to design craft to process to industry and market trends — you never stop pushing into the next big challenge.

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years in Product Research (or equivalent) and 3+ years experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams.

• 3+ years of being an influential research leader on enterprise software, ideally in the advertising space. 

• Proven track record of being able to have strong conviction and the ability to influence across executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners that leads to drive toward a unified vision of a strong user experience.

• Proven ability to work closely with Product, Engineering, PMM, Research, and Sales to paint both the long-term, holistic vision of our Ads products.

• Strong ability to work closely with consumer teams, across Research, Design and cross-functional partners, to deeply understand the consumer experience and how to build a thriving ads experience that leverages existing user behavior and needs.

• Proven track record of being able to balance ambiguity, fast iterative sprints, business awareness, technology, organizational agility, research and data insights, and high design quality.

• Proven ability to accelerate team efficiency by improving processes and workflows within the research team and cross-functional teams.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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