# Staff Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,747-$300,067 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Pinterest is looking for a highly technical, experienced Staff TPM to join the Advanced Technology Group (ATG), a research-driven engineering organization advancing Pinterest's ML/AI capabilities.

The Staff Technical Program Manager will partner directly with senior product and engineering leaders to turn ambitious AI strategy into shipped, reliable, and widely adopted capabilities. This is a high-visibility role spanning research, ML platform, infrastructure, safety, and product teams.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead complex, multi-workstream programs across ML research, platform engineering, infrastructure, safety/compliance, and product, aligned under one roadmap, metrics, and governance.

- Partner closely with VPs of Product and Engineering to translate strategy into workstreams, staffing, milestones, and clear decision-making.

- Drive the path from research to production: model development, evaluation, release management, serving capacity, and adoption by product teams.

- Define and track metrics and guardrails (quality, cost, reliability, adoption, cycle time) and use them to drive decisions.

- Run technical design and decision forums; identify risks and tradeoffs early and align senior leaders on a path forward.

- Build operating mechanisms (planning, reviews, intake, launch readiness, post-mortems) that scale across teams working at different paces.

- Use AI tooling to automate tracking, reporting, and program insights.

- Communicate status, risks, and decisions to executives and cross-functional partners, tailoring technical depth to the audience.

Requirements:

- Minimum 8 years in technical program management, engineering, or related roles, with a track record of leading org-level, multi-team ML/AI or platform programs.

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

- Deep technical understanding of ML/AI systems (training and post-training, evaluation, model serving, GPU capacity, release management) and platform engineering.

- Experience with LLM/multimodal model adoption, such as adapting open-source models, evaluation frameworks, and migrating workloads between model providers, is a strong plus.

- Proven ability to partner with VP and Director-level leaders in Product and Engineering and influence strategy and prioritization.

- Experience designing planning processes and governance (annual and multi-half planning) across several organizations.

- Strong analytical skills: SQL, dashboards, and using data from experiments and evaluations to drive decisions.

- Comfort with high ambiguity, rapidly changing technology, and cross-functional work with Legal, Privacy, and Safety partners.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication, including nuanced technical concepts for executive audiences.

- Demonstrated ability to build and scale processes, and to use AI tools to automate program management.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

- 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.

Relocation Statement:

- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Salary Range: $145,747-$300,067 USD

## Skills

### Required
- ML/AI systems
- platform engineering
- technical program management
- SQL
- data analysis
- communication

### Nice to have
- LLM/multimodal model adoption
- open-source models
- evaluation frameworks
- model migration

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