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Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced Technology Group
Pinterest Technical Program Managers deliver critical and strategic outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries.
Pinterest is looking for a highly technical, experienced Staff TPM to join the Advanced Technology Group (ATG), a research-driven engineering organization advancing Pinterest's ML/AI capabilities. You'll partner directly with senior product and engineering leaders to turn ambitious AI strategy into shipped, reliable, and widely adopted capabilities. This is a high-visibility role spanning research, ML platform, infrastructure, safety, and product teams.
What you'll do:
- Lead complex, multi-workstream programs across ML research, platform engineering, infrastructure, safety/compliance, and product, aligned under one roadmap, metrics, and governance.
- Partner closely with the VPs of Product and Engineering to translate strategy into workstreams, staffing, milestones, and clear decision-making.
- Drive the path from research to production: model development, evaluation, release management, serving capacity, and adoption by product teams.
- Define and track metrics and guardrails (quality, cost, reliability, adoption, cycle time) and use them to drive decisions.
- Run technical design and decision forums; identify risks and tradeoffs early and align senior leaders on a path forward.
- Build operating mechanisms (planning, reviews, intake, launch readiness, post-mortems) that scale across teams working at different paces.
- Use AI tooling to automate tracking, reporting, and program insights.
- Communicate status, risks, and decisions to executives and cross-functional partners, tailoring technical depth to the audience.
What we're looking for:
- Minimum 8 years in technical program management, engineering, or related roles, with a track record of leading org-level, multi-team ML/AI or platform programs.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep technical understanding of ML/AI systems (training and post-training, evaluation, model serving, GPU capacity, release management) and platform engineering. You can read design docs and challenge assumptions.
- Experience with LLM/multimodal model adoption, such as adapting open-source models, evaluation frameworks, and migrating workloads between model providers, is a strong plus.
- Proven ability to partner with VP and Director-level leaders in Product and Engineering and influence strategy and prioritization.
- Experience designing planning processes and governance (annual and multi-half planning) across several organizations.
- Strong analytical skills: SQL, dashboards, and using data from experiments and evaluations to drive decisions.
- Comfort with high ambiguity, rapidly changing technology, and cross-functional work with Legal, Privacy, and Safety partners.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, including nuanced technical concepts for executive audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale processes, and to use AI tools to automate program management.
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.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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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.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related roles
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience leading organization-level, multi-team ML, AI, or platform programs
- Deep technical understanding of ML/AI systems, including training, post-training, evaluation, model serving, GPU capacity, and release management
- Ability to read technical design documents and challenge assumptions
- Experience partnering with VP- and Director-level Product and Engineering leaders
- Experience designing planning processes and governance across multiple organizations
- Strong analytical skills, including SQL, dashboards, and using experimental and evaluation data
- Ability to work with ambiguity and cross-functional Legal, Privacy, and Safety partners
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to executives
- Ability to build and scale processes and use AI tools to automate program management
- Experience with LLM or multimodal model adoption, open-source model adaptation, evaluation frameworks, or workload migration between model providers
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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