# Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,639-$336,903 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

**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 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.

**AI-first execution & workflow design**

- Use GenAI as the default operating model for TPM execution,starting from AI-assisted first drafts of core artifacts and modernizing high-toil workflows into AI-first mechanisms where appropriate.

- Prototype lightweight AI-powered helpers and tools to improve signal quality monitoring, experiment readouts, and decision-making across Search and Signals.

- Follow 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.

**Requirements**

- 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.

- AI-forward execution mindset – demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications at company scale.

- Workflow 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.

- Safety-by-design AI fluency – experience operating within AI governance expectations and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.

## Skills

### Required
- search
- recommendation systems
- ML/AI
- large-scale data integration
- GenAI
- program management
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- internationalization
- data acquisition
- integration
- management
- Search products
- external data partners
- negotiating data acquisition agreements

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