StaffTechnicalProgramManager,SearchRelevance
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“Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance at Pinterest. Skills: Technical Program Management, Search Relevance, AI/ML Programs, GenAI Execution. Establish and own relationships with key partners. Define and drive Search, Relevance, and Merchant ML/AI programs”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering high impact programs; programs are executed and landed successfully; lead strategy steering committees; streamlining engineering efforts and cost; close those gaps; optimize resource allocation and uplevel team performance; accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications; improving decision-making
Industry & Context.
technical judgment; ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs; manage ambiguity; problem-solving
in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months, US based applicants only
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience, 7+ years in a technical or analytical role, technical breadth and judgment, ability to quickly ramp up and go deep on a range of technologies, ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs, Comfort with a fast-changing environment, ability to manage ambiguity, Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment, Excellent communication skills, ability to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions, Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives, holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability, AI-first execution mindset, demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications, starting with AI drafts and applying judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions, Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation, experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms, improving decision-making by using GenAI, prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis, leveraging agents where appropriate, Safety-by-design AI fluency, experience operating within AI governance expectations, risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability, proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls
Nice to Have
Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail
What You'll Do.
Establish and own relationships with key partners
Define and drive Search
and Merchant ML/AI programs
Lead day-to-day program management of multiple work streams
Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences
Build subject-matter-expertise on query understanding
Identify gaps in shopping and search distribution strategy
Own and scale headcount and roadmap planning
Drive High-Ambiguity strategic bets
Translate executive visions into project plans
Manage overarching portfolio of programs
Use GenAI as default operating model
Prototype solutions to augment decisions
Follow Pinterest AI guidance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Establish and own relationships with key partners across Search teams; work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions; collaboration with AI; work with Product and Engineering; partner with Data; lead strategy steering committees with cross-functional VPs
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; stakeholder communications
Process & Methodology
Define and drive programs, execution and delivery, program management, risk identification and mitigation, program execution and landing, technical design, experimentation, strategy steering, OKR requirements, streamlining engineering efforts, operationalize processes, headcount and roadmap planning, strategic bets, project plans, portfolio management, resource allocation, team performance, EP PgM execution, program artifacts, workflow modernization, intake triage, status synthesis, action/decision extraction, risk & dependency tracking, synthesizing signals, decision/trade-offs, escalation paths
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. At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and as a Technical Program Manager on the Search team, you'll play a crucial role in this mission. You’ll be a thought leader with Product and Engineering on crafting a seamless search and shopping experience for Pinners. Questions you’ll have to tackle with the team include: 1/ How might we better understand when a Pinner has commercial intent and change our search strategy accordingly? 2/ How do we enable new merchants to succeed on Pinterest as a platform while continuing to help our successful merchants become more successful? 3/ What signals and content can we acquire and build to build a better search and shopping experience? 4/ How do we measure Search quality and relevance on the platform? What you’ll do: Establish and own relationships with key partners
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