About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

The Team:

The Platforms TPM team helps Pinterest deliver a future-proof, highly scalable and efficient technology ecosystem by translating Platforms strategy into clear, executable cross-team programs. We partner with engineering and product leaders across Platforms to drive modernization and consolidation, scalability and performance, resilience and reliability and developer productivity. Our scope spans foundational platforms and tooling that are shared across Core and Monetization, including client and API foundations and critical infrastructure that reduces operational friction and accelerates safe product delivery. We create alignment across teams, surface tradeoffs early and keep execution on track from strategy through launch.

What you’ll do:

Lead the Core, Ads, Quality and Client Foundations program portfolio as a hands-on Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management, partnering with the Platform engineering leadership.
Set an integrated multi-quarter program strategy, roadmap and execution cadence across the portfolio, including milestones, dependencies, risks and decision forums.
Drive technical program management for Core + Ads foundations modernization and consolidation, including catalog and ingestion unification, search and discovery infrastructure modernization (indexing, retrieval/embeddings, crawling/scraping and content extraction, media signals and video/media pipelines).
Drive Client Foundations modernization across iOS, Android and Web, developer tooling foundations to improve code coverage, strengthen engineering hygiene and enable safer, faster releases.
Manage and grow a small team (2–3 TPMs to start), coaching for ownership, decision quality and delivery.

What we’re looking for:

Experience leading large, cross-team technical programs with high ambiguity, complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
Experience setting multi-quarter program strategy and translating it into an executable roadmap, clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Strong executive communication skills, including concise status, risks, tradeoffs and decision framing for senior leaders.
Technical fluency across platform domains (distributed systems, reliability/observability, data pipelines and client platforms) to guide planning, ask the right questions and unblock teams.
Experience driving modernization and consolidation initiatives that improve reliability, productivity and software quality.
People leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management and building team capability over time.
10+ years of experience as a technical program manager
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$163,639—$336,903 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

Sr. TPM Manager - Core, Ads, Quality, Client Foudnations

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