# Staff Technical Program Manager ML/AI Platform **Company**: Pinterest **Location**: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pinterest/jobs/7494634?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b3985a03-e76 ## Description About Pinterest: At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. We're looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our team and help us achieve this mission. As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for leading cross-engineering special projects and identifying, scoping, championing, and landing key strategic projects important to advancing Pinterest's platform and underpinning. You will lead strategic ML/AI platform programs, identify, scope, champion, and deliver high-impact, cross-engineering initiatives critical to advancing Pinterest's ML/AI platform, GenAI infrastructure, and Agent Platform. You will operate with an AI-first execution mindset, using GenAI as the default operating model for program execution. You will produce AI-assisted first drafts of core program artifacts, modernize high-toil workflows, and synthesize signals to proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and escalation paths. You will prototype AI-augmented tools and workflows, leveraging AI coding assistants to build lightweight solutions that improve decision-making and reduce friction. You will use a 'vibe coding' approach to move fast and validate value early. You will apply safety-by-design AI governance, following Pinterest's AI guidance for risk, governance, and compliance. You will handle sensitive data, validate AI-generated outputs, document assumptions and limitations, and ensure AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy and safety expectations before broad adoption. You will drive complex technical decisions across teams, partnering closely with technical domain owners across MLP, Agent Platform (Helix), Core Infra, and Ads. You will proactively identify, frame, and resolve complex cross-team technical decisions, sequencing risky elements to fail fast and reduce downstream program exposure. You will translate strategy into execution, converting strategic platform priorities into structured, milestone-driven execution plans. You will operate at both breadth (big picture vision) and depth (driving granular details with engineering teams) to ensure nothing falls through the cracks. You will shape planning and influence roadmaps, serving as a thought leader to cross-functional stakeholders during annual and quarterly planning cycles. You will influence product and platform roadmap decisions with data-informed perspectives and a deep understanding of organizational priorities and technical tradeoffs. You will build scalable processes and best practices, defining, institutionalizing, and continuously improving program management processes, frameworks, and tooling. You will elevate organizational execution capability and enable teams to operate with greater agility, consistency, and efficiency at scale. You will drive cross-functional alignment and communication, building transparent, adaptive communication channels across Engineering, ML Research, Data Science, Product, Security, and Legal. You will ensure stakeholders at all levels, from ICs to executives, have timely, accurate visibility into priorities, status, risks, and decisions. You will own program outcomes end-to-end, taking full accountability for the success of high-impact programs. You will ensure measurable delivery through rigorous planning, proactive risk mitigation, and relentless follow-through. You will represent program interests at the highest levels of the organization. What we're looking for: - Experienced Technical Program Manager with 8+ years of TPM or related experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent. - AI-first execution mindset, demonstrated ability to use GenAI to meaningfully accelerate program planning, operations, and stakeholder communication. - Workflow design and AI fluency, experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms. - Safety-by-design AI governance, comfortable operating within AI governance expectations. - ML/AI and systems domain knowledge, working understanding of Machine Learning, GenAI, LLM serving and inference, AI Agent architectures, DevOps, and systems engineering principles. - Strategic vision and entrepreneurial leadership, strong ability to analyze organizational context, anticipate future scenarios, and shape program roadmaps aligned to company-level strategy and OKRs. - Executive influence and thought leadership, demonstrated success influencing senior and executive leadership, representing program interests at the highest levels. - Analytical problem-solving and risk mitigation, strong analytical and decision-making skills with a track record of using data, innovative approaches, and structured frameworks to navigate complexity, resolve ambiguity, and mitigate program risks proactively. - Operational excellence at scale, demonstrated experience creating and driving efficient, scalable processes and best practices that increase organizational agility. - Exceptional communication and collaboration, outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, able to distill nuanced, technical concepts for diverse audiences. ## Skills ### Required - Technical Program Management - Machine Learning - Artificial Intelligence - GenAI - Agent Platform - DevOps - Systems Engineering - Workflow Design - AI Governance - Data Analysis - Communication - Collaboration - Leadership - Strategic Planning - Risk Management - Problem-Solving --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pinterest/jobs/7494634?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)