Staff Technical Program Manager

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