Staff Technical Program Manager, ML/AI Platform

We're looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our team. As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for leading strategic ML/AI platform programs, operating with an AI-first execution mindset, and driving complex technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Operate with an AI-First Execution Mindset: Use GenAI as the default operating model for program execution; producing AI-assisted first drafts of core program artifacts, modernizing high-toil workflows, and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and escalation paths.
• Prototype AI-Augmented Tools & Workflows: Leverage AI coding assistants to build lightweight solutions that improve decision-making and reduce friction, including dashboards, data analysis, process helpers, and internal tooling.
• Apply Safety-by-Design AI Governance: Follow Pinterest's AI guidance for risk, governance, and compliance; appropriately handling sensitive data, validating AI-generated outputs, documenting assumptions and limitations, and ensuring AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy and safety expectations before broad adoption.
• Drive Complex Technical Decisions Across Teams: Partner closely with technical domain owners across MLP, Agent Platform (Helix), Core Infra, and Ads to proactively identify, frame, and resolve complex cross-team technical decisions.
• Translate Strategy into Execution: Convert strategic platform priorities into structured, milestone-driven execution plans, operating at both breadth (big picture vision) and depth (driving granular details with engineering teams).
• Shape Planning & Influence Roadmaps: Serve as a thought leader to cross-functional stakeholders during annual and quarterly planning cycles, influencing product and platform roadmap decisions with data-informed perspectives and a deep understanding of organizational priorities and technical tradeoffs.
• Build Scalable Processes & Best Practices: Define, institutionalize, and continuously improve program management processes, frameworks, and tooling, elevating organizational execution capability and enabling teams to operate with greater agility, consistency, and efficiency at scale.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment & Communication: Build transparent, adaptive communication channels across Engineering, ML Research, Data Science, Product, Security, and Legal, ensuring stakeholders at all levels have timely, accurate visibility into priorities, status, risks, and decisions.
• Own Program Outcomes End-to-End: Take full accountability for the success of high-impact programs, ensuring measurable delivery through rigorous planning, proactive risk mitigation, and relentless follow-through.

Requirements:

• Experienced Technical Program Manager: 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 & AI Fluency: Experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms, including strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts and tools, building dashboards, and leveraging agents to improve decision-making and operational throughput.
• Safety-by-Design AI Governance: Comfortable operating within AI governance expectations, including risk assessment, sensitive data handling, model output validation, and auditability.
• ML/AI & Systems Domain Knowledge: Working understanding of Machine Learning, GenAI, LLM serving and inference, AI Agent architectures, DevOps, and systems engineering principles.
• Strategic Vision & Entrepreneurial Leadership: Strong ability to analyze organizational context, anticipate future scenarios, and shape program roadmaps aligned to company-level strategy and OKRs.
• Executive Influence & Thought Leadership: Demonstrated success influencing senior and executive leadership, representing program interests at the highest levels, providing well-reasoned input to critical decisions.
• Analytical Problem-Solving & 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 & Collaboration: Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, able to distill nuanced, technical concepts for diverse audiences.