Sr. Staff Product Manager, Adversarial Actors

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3 Locations
In-Office or Remote
196K-403K Annually
Senior level
Social Media
Our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
The Role
Own Pinterest’s company-wide strategy for detecting and enforcing against bots, account takeovers, spam, and other adversarial behavior. Define multi-year roadmaps, develop ML-powered detection and enforcement systems, establish measurement strategies, and coordinate investment across Policy, Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Identity teams. Lead executive alignment while balancing enforcement effectiveness with false-positive user impact.
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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.

As a Senior Staff Product Manager for Adversarial Actors, you'll own the end-to-end strategy for inauthentic behavior on Pinterest. This includes detection and enforcement for bots, account takeovers, and spam across the entire Pinterest funnel. You’ll partner closely with teams across Pinterest, including Policy, Operations, Engineering, and Data Science to protect Pinners, advertisers, and the business. 


What you'll do:


  • Define and deliver Pinterest's company-wide adversarial strategy spanning pre-authentication, login/signup, and post-authentication surfaces — setting multi-year vision, aligning executive stakeholders, and driving coordinated investment across Policy, Ops, MLE, Integrity Analytics, Data Science, Security, and Identity.
  • Develop and execute on the post-authentication roadmap, including measurement, detection signals, and enforcement actions. Support the Bots & ATO PM on pre-authentication roadmap.
  • Partner with Data Science and Engineering to build spam account and domain signals, including network-based detection, ML models, and heuristic-based rules. 
  • Partner with the Enforcement Systems team to develop the associated suite of spam account and domain enforcement actions such as warnings, rate limits, feature restrictions, deactivations, and domain-level actions.
  • Set the metrics and measurement strategy for post-authentication spam prevalence, detection quality, and enforcement effectiveness.
  • Anticipate emerging adversarial patterns and continuously reprioritize investments to stay ahead of evolving abuse.

What we're looking for:

  • Minimum 10 years of product management experience, with deep expertise in trust & safety, account integrity, anti-abuse, or adversarial domains
  • Proven track record owning ML-powered detection products and shipping enforcement systems at scale
  • Strong data fluency — comfortable with precision/recall/FPR, prevalence measurement, and reasoning about adversarial dynamics
  • SQL proficiency — able to self-serve data investigation and analysis
  • Demonstrated systems thinking — experience navigating complex, interconnected detection and enforcement infrastructure
  • Exceptional cross-functional leadership and executive-level communication — proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across functions, and present strategy and recommendations to all levels of leadership. 
  • Strong judgment on policy and enforcement tradeoffs, balancing enforcement with false-positive user impact
  • Excellent written and verbal communication of complex adversarial, ML, and policy concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
 
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/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.





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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
$195,738—$402,990 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.
 
By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

Skills Required

  • Minimum 10 years of product management experience
  • Deep expertise in trust and safety, account integrity, anti-abuse, or adversarial domains
  • Proven track record owning ML-powered detection products and shipping enforcement systems at scale
  • Strong data fluency, including precision, recall, false-positive rate, prevalence measurement, and adversarial dynamics
  • SQL proficiency for data investigation and analysis
  • Experience navigating complex, interconnected detection and enforcement infrastructure
  • Exceptional cross-functional leadership and executive-level communication
  • Strong judgment regarding policy and enforcement tradeoffs and false-positive user impact
  • Excellent written and verbal communication of complex adversarial, ML, and policy concepts
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Pinterest Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pinterest and has not been reviewed or approved by Pinterest.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in core technical roles, with clearly defined base, bonus, and RSU components. Vesting schedules and pay elements are articulated clearly, supporting visibility into total rewards.
  • Parental & Family Support — Policies include substantial paid parental leave globally alongside fertility and family‑building benefits, adoption assistance, and dedicated caregiver supports. Communications also highlight a phased return‑to‑work approach.
  • Flexible Benefits — PinFlex enables role‑dependent hybrid/remote work with home‑office, connectivity, and commuter support, plus the option to work internationally for a limited period with approval. Time away is reinforced by a paid company shutdown and generous vacation framing.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA

What We Do

Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.

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