Staff Technical Program Manager, Pinterest
Search Relevance
$141.5-291.3k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$141.5-291.3k
Offers equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (7+ years in a technical or analytical role)
- Strong 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 and ability to manage ambiguity
- Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions
- Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability
- Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable
What the job involves
- Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day
- It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most
- Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love
- In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward
- You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet
- 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?
- Establish and own relationships with key partners across Search teams as their strategic and execution partner for delivering high impact programs
- Define and drive Search, Relevance, and Merchant ML/AI programs based on current and emerging needs, ensuring scope, responsibilities, and ownership are well-established, risks are proactively identified and mitigated and that programs are executed and landed successfully
- Lead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the product process, including product strategy, technical design, and experimentation
- Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences in partnership with Data Science; leverage these insights to lead strategy steering committees with crossfunctional VPs
- Build a subject-matter-expertise on query understanding and search engines
- Drive product, business, and OKR requirements while also streamlining engineering efforts and cost
- Identify gaps in shopping and search distribution strategy (i.e. signals, content, etc.) and operationalize processes to close those gaps
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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