Staff Product Manager

Define and drive the strategy for Pinterest’s shopping infrastructure, setting direction for commerce catalog, indexing, and delivery platforms that power user and business value at global scale.

What you'll do:

• Partner closely with engineering, data science, product, and go-to-market teams to craft scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that enable seamless shopping and ad experiences for users and merchants.
• Lead complex migrations, system consolidations, and platform evolutions that improve scalability, performance, and system simplicity.
• Identify technical and business opportunities to expand the reach, quality, and efficiency of our shopping platforms, balancing near-term priorities with long-term vision.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and excellence—mentoring team members and building strong partnerships across the organization.
• Champion a data-driven approach to product tradeoffs, prioritization, and measurement, with an unwavering focus on delivering impact for both Pinners and the business.
• Stay at the forefront of e-commerce, catalog management, and recommendation system trends, ensuring we continue to deliver innovative and differentiated shopping experiences.

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years’ experience in product management or related technical leadership roles, with a clear record of building and launching large-scale backend or infrastructure products.
• Domain expertise (preferred) in catalog content management, ecommerce infrastructure or platforms, or shopping recommendation and personalization systems.
• Deep experience with commerce and ads infrastructure, including catalog management, feed ingestion, product data, high-scale storage, or high-throughput/low-latency serving architectures.
• Demonstrated success in guiding cross-functional, multi-phase technical initiatives—especially large migrations, architecture redesigns, or system consolidations.
• Analytical and strategic mindset, comfortable making high-accountability decisions and driving measurable business impact.
• Exceptional communication and partnership skills, with experience influencing at all levels from technical contributors to senior executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; advanced degrees or equivalent industry experience a plus.
• Preferred: experience scaling platforms to billions of items, working with internationalization/localization, and optimizing for both reliability and performance.

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 let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Zurich.

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