# Manager II, Trends Engineering

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $177,185-$364,795 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Trends & Insights Engineering team at Pinterest builds products that turn Pinterest's unique signal into actionable intelligence for advertisers.

As a Manager II, Trends Engineering, you will lead the technical evolution of Pinterest Trends and Audience Insights into a unified, AI-powered insights platform.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and grow a team of engineers building Pinterest Trends, Audience Insights, and AI-powered advertiser insights products.

- Translate the team's vision into a cohesive roadmap and delivery plan.

- Drive measurable advertiser impact by establishing a North Star tied to adoption, insight quality, and incremental ad spend.

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and peer Ads org teams to embed insights and recommendations into Ads Manager, seller workflows, and other advertiser journeys.

- Set the technical bar for LLM-powered capabilities with strong safety, quality, and evaluation guardrails.

- Hire, mentor, and retain senior and staff engineering talent.

- Use AI to accelerate planning, technical exploration, and decision-making across the team.

- Use AI to automate repeatable management tasks.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing teams of 5+ engineers.

- Experience leading engineering teams that build and ship consumer-facing products.

- Experience managing engineers across multiple levels and helping teams improve in effectiveness, quality, and impact.

- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development.

- Strong product sense and strategic thinking.

- Solid technical foundation and the ability to engage in architecture, design reviews, and technical trade-offs.

- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, align cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver meaningful results.

- Expertise in using data and experimentation to inform product and engineering decisions.

- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work.

- Strong track record of critically evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work.

Benefits:

- Base salary range: $177,185-$364,795 USD

- Equity

- In-office collaboration required once every quarter

- Flexible working model (PinFlex)

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- team management
- AI
- data analysis
- product sense
- strategic thinking

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