StaffTechnicalProgramManagerML/AIPlatform
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“Staff Technical Program Manager ML/AI Platform at Pinterest. Skills: ML/AI Platform, GenAI, Technical Program Management, AI Governance. Identify, scope, champion, and land key strategic projects. Lead Strategic ML/AI Platform Programs”
What You'll Achieve.
Measurable execution; Validate value early; Meet applicable policy and safety expectations; Reduce downstream program exposure; Ensure nothing falls through the cracks; Elevating organizational execution capability; Enable teams to operate with greater agility, consistency, and efficiency at scale; Ensure measurable delivery
Industry & Context.
Identify, frame, and resolve complex cross-team technical sequencing risky elements; Synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and escalation paths
In-office collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months, US based applicants only
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of TPM or related experience, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, Proven track record of leading and delivering complex, multi-year initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams and organizations, Demonstrated ability to use GenAI to meaningfully accelerate program planning, operations, and stakeholder starting from AI-generated drafts and applying judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions rather than defaulting to manual, high-toil approaches, Workflow Design including prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts and tools, building dashboards, and leveraging agents to improve decision-making and operational throughput, Comfortable operating within AI governance expectations, including risk assessment, sensitive data handling, model output validation, and auditability, and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls, ML/AI sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams, drive meaningful tradeoffs, and identify cross-system risks, Strategic Vision able to distill nuanced, technical concepts for diverse audiences, build consensus across competing perspectives, and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that reflects Pinterest's commitment to diversity and belonging
What You'll Do.
and land key strategic projects
Lead Strategic ML/AI Platform Programs
Operate with an AI-First Execution Mindset
Apply Safety-by-Design AI Governance
Drive Complex Technical Decisions Across Teams
Translate Strategy into Execution
Build Scalable Processes
Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
Own Program Outcomes End-to-End
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with technical domain owners; Drive Cross-Functional Alignment ensuring stakeholders at all from ICs to executives, have timely, accurate visibility into priorities, status, risks, and decisions
Communication Scope
Distill nuanced, technical concepts for diverse audiences; Build consensus across competing perspectives
Process & Methodology
Program governance, Strategic project delivery, Milestone-driven execution, Rigorous planning, Proactive risk mitigation, Relentless follow-through
Full Job Description
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. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. The Team: Pinterest Technical Program Managers are proactive owners with technical expertise. They are aligned to the highest level company priorities to support successful delivery of programs within their teams. The Platform T/PgM Team is responsible for overall program governance in Infrastructure, Infra Finance, Data Engineering and Security, as well as Compliance and managing our cloud budget. What you’ll do: As a Staff Technical Program Manager focusing on cross-engineering special projects, you will identify, scope, champion, and land key strategic projects important to advancing Pinterest’s platform and underpinning. 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; owning outcomes
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