Staff Technical Program Manager, SOX Compliance

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This role is within the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) Compliance Technical Program Management team which delivers critical & strategic technical compliance outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Staff-level Technical Program Manager with deep SOX domain fluency and strong technical judgment, who excels at strategically leading complex, cross-functional programs and influencing senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic compliance engineering programs that span multiple teams and organizations, translating broad risk and control objectives into executable roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and run operating mechanisms for program health, dependency management, decision-making, and executive visibility across audits, remediation efforts, and control maturity initiatives.
• Modernize the SOX audit program by transitioning compliance workflows from manual, high-toil evidence collection to AI-driven, automated control monitoring and audit readiness, driving greater efficiency and scalability across the organization.
• Partner with Engineering and Product as core strategic partners, and work closely with Finance, engineering control owners, and Contractors to align on priorities, sequencing, ownership, and delivery accountability.
• Drive durable improvements in how the org plans, tracks, and evidences control execution, reducing manual effort and improving consistency, readiness, and trust.
• Anticipate program and technical risks early, frame trade-offs clearly, and influence leaders through crisp recommendations that balance compliance requirements with engineering pragmatism.
• Create best practices, tools, and methodologies that raise execution quality for the broader organization, not just for a single program.
• Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM execution,producing AI-assisted first drafts of core program artifacts, modernizing high-toil workflows into AI-first mechanisms, and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, decision/trade-offs, and escalation paths.
• Prototype solutions to augment decisions through data or simplify processes using AI coding assistants.
• Follow Pinterest AI guidance for risk, governance, and safety-by-design.

Requirements

• BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (7+ years of technical program management or closely related experience leading large-scale technical programs across multiple teams and stakeholders).
• Expertise in navigating the complexities of SOX compliance across distributed engineering and business organizations.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional technical programs with significant ambiguity, senior stakeholder management needs, and outcomes that matter at company level.
• Demonstrated ability to influence Engineering, Product, Finance, and other strategic partners through strong judgment, structured execution, and clear communication.
• Strong program leadership in environments with complex dependencies, shifting priorities, risk management needs, and a mix of technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfort operating deeply in engineering contexts.
• Track record of building mechanisms that scale.
• Domain strength in compliance, controls, audit readiness, or similarly regulated/risk-sensitive environments is strongly preferred.
• AI-first execution mindset.
• Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation.
• Safety-by-design AI fluency.

Benefits

• Salary: $145,747-$300,067 USD
• Equity

Other Details

• Relocation assistance is not provided.
• This role requires in-person collaboration 1 time every 6-months.