# Chief of Staff to GM, Ads

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,561-$367,626 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are hiring a Chief of Staff to the GM, Ads (Product, Engineering, Data Science) to help scale the organization, sharpen executive decision-making, and drive the operating agenda for this high-impact team.

This Chief of Staff (CoS) will act as a senior strategic operator and trusted advisor who connects big-picture priorities with day-to-day execution, serving as a force multiplier for the GM and the broader leadership team.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as a strategic partner and force multiplier to the GM, Ads and the broader Ads leadership team, helping them stay focused on the most important company and organizational priorities.

- Own and continuously refine the executive operating agenda in partnership with leaders and TPMs, including strategic planning, goal setting, quarterly and annual business reviews, leadership offsites, and decision forums.

- Lead high-priority, cross-functional initiatives that improve Ad’s execution across Product and Engineering, operating effectiveness, and business impact, stepping in to drive structure, alignment, and momentum where ambiguity is highest.

- Translate ambiguous business, technical, and organizational problems into clear frameworks, options, recommendations, and decisions for the VP and leadership team.

- Use data, qualitative insight, and organizational “listening” to identify risks, diagnose operating gaps, and proactively surface tradeoffs and implications to leadership.

- Build alignment across Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Recruiting, People, and GTM partners, ensuring the Ads organization’s priorities, risks, and resource needs are well understood and integrated into company planning.

- Design, implement, and evolve operating mechanisms that improve prioritization, decision quality, communication, and follow-through.

- Support organizational planning and growth, including team structure, headcount and investment tradeoffs, leadership effectiveness, and operating-model evolution as the business and technology landscape changes.

- Develop executive-level communications and narratives.

- Represent the Ads organization in critical forums.

- Act as a culture carrier for Pinterest’s values.

- Collaborate with finance teams to manage budgets, optimize spending, and identify opportunities for efficiency and/or investment.

- Understand, interface and work closely with recruiting and people orgs to evaluate and nurture healthy, cooperative engineering teams.

## Requirements

- Minimum 8 years of experience in strategic operations, business operations, program leadership, product operations, technical program management, consulting, finance, or a related role in complex, fast-moving organizations.

- Experience operating as a trusted partner to senior executives or leadership teams.

- Strong strategic judgment and systems thinking.

- Proven ability to lead high-impact initiatives.

- Exceptional analytical skills.

- Outstanding executive communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority.

- Experience designing and scaling operating mechanisms.

- High integrity, discretion, and judgment.

- Comfort working at the intersection of technical, product, and business environments.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience partnering directly with Engineering, Product, or other technical executive teams as a Chief of Staff.

- Experience in advertising, marketplace, platform, infrastructure, or other scaled technology environments.

- Experience with organizational design, headcount planning, business planning, or executive-level operating rhythms.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic operations
- business operations
- program leadership
- product operations
- technical program management
- consulting
- finance

### Nice to have
- advertising
- marketplace
- platform
- infrastructure
- organizational design
- headcount planning
- business planning

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