Corporate Strategy Lead, Pinterest
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$141.5-291.3k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$141.5-291.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- We’re specifically looking for candidates with a corporate strategy background who can structure ambiguous problems, drive stakeholder alignment, and translate data driven insights into clear strategic recommendations
- 5+ years of experience in business strategy roles (corporate strategy, business strategy, management consulting, product strategy) where you influenced company wide direction in a fast-paced, data first environment. Big tech is a plus
- Demonstrated structured problem solving - including framing ambiguous questions, developing hypotheses, design analyses, and translating them into actionable recommendations
- Comfort writing basic SQL queries to independently pull data as part of strategy work; this is not a data science role, but ability to serve serve simple data is required
- Exceptional narrative storytelling; able to synthesize complex data and ambiguous signals into crisp executive ready narratives that drive alignment
- Experience influencing without authority across multiple functions (BD, PM, Sales, PMM, Eng, etc) where prioritization is competitive
- Direct experience in advertising ecosystem is a plus, but candidates with strong strategic fundamentals who can quickly ramp into these domains are equally encouraged to apply
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- This is a senior individual contributor role within the Corporate Strategy team responsible for shaping firmwide Shopping strategy; the role has no direct reports but operates with high executive visibility within the Product and Engineering org
- Lead strategic problem solving for priority questions by structuring ambiguous problems, developing clear hypotheses, scoping required analyses, and turning them into actionable recommendations that shape Pinterest’s multi-year Shopping strategy
- Partner closely across functions (PM, Eng, Sales, BD, PMM, DS) to identify Retailer/Merchant pain points and ecosystem opportunities, and translate these into concrete strategic priorities, resourcing implications, and cross-company decision frameworks
- Develop executive-ready narratives that synthesize complex data, market dynamics, and internal signals into clear, compelling stories used in MBRs, strategy reviews, and cross-company alignment forums
- Own light-touch data work required for strategy development, including gathering and pulling data across sources with basic SQ, to ensure clarity, accuracy, and depth in your strategic analyses (this is not a data science role, but self-serve comfort is required)
- Drive alignment and decision making by presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership, ensuring stakeholders understand tradeoffs, opportunities, and implications for the Shopping roadmap
- Proactively surface new opportunities in the Merchant/Retailer ecosystem by combining internal performance trends, industry signals, merchant feedback, and competitive insights to inform long-range planning and capital allocation
- Operates as a strategic thought partner to leadership across the company, helping shape what Pinterest should build, accelerate, or rethink to unlock growth in Shopping
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
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