Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Search Signals

 At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. As 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. 

What you’ll do: 

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Envision and trailblaze the company’s approach to leveraging offsite and onsite signals, anticipating future business, technical, and regulatory challenges.

• Drive the creation and evolution of the company-wide roadmap for signals, aligning business objectives with technical capabilities and directly impacting multiple company OKRs.

• Identify opportunities for long-term business innovation and differentiation, ensuring Pinterest remains at the forefront of search and recommendation technologies.  

Program Execution & Outcomes

• Oversee and deliver company-level programs that span multiple organizations, managing ambiguity and risk at scale.

• Lead the technical execution and delivery of signals initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality results across interconnected projects.

• Develop and achieve program-specific metrics and targets, driving the resolution of complex technical and program management challenges through conceptual and innovative thinking.  

Influence & Cross-Org Leadership

• Influence at the VP/staff level, providing thought leadership in program and product management across Pinterest.

• Guide and motivate teams, fostering an environment of accountability, inclusion, and high performance.

• Serve 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.

Collaboration & Communication

• Evangelize the vision and progress of signals programs to all levels of leadership, including the Executive Team, ensuring clear, concise, and impactful communication.

• Drive consensus and propose informed tradeoffs across the company, balancing technical, business, and regulatory considerations.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and external data partners.

Technical & Domain Expertise

• Demonstrate expert technical understanding and judgment, guiding teams in solving complex technical challenges that span organizations.

• Author and advance best practices, tools, and methodologies for signals management, data acquisition, and model evaluation.

• Shape the future of the signals domain at Pinterest through continuous research, learning, and mentorship of program managers and technical leads.  

     What we’re looking for: 

• BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (10+ years in technical or analytical roles, with significant program leadership at company scale).

• Demonstrated ability to lead transformational, company-level programs with direct impact on multiple OKRs.

• Deep technical breadth and judgment, with expertise in search, recommendation systems, ML/AI, and large-scale data integration.

• Proven track record of influencing at the VP/staff level and driving consensus across complex, cross-functional environments.

• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and organizational awareness.

• Experience with legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance in data-driven environments.

• Experience working with external data partners and negotiating data acquisition agreements is highly desirable.

• Experience with internationalization and supporting global product relevance is a plus

• Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable

• Experience with data acquisition, integration, and management, especially for offsite signals, is a plus.

Relocation Statement:

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

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We 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.

• This 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.

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