Senior Engineering Manager, Pinterest
Ads Serving Platform
$228.2-399k
+ Equity
More information about location
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Job no longer available
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$228.2-399k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of management experience, with experience managing managers
- 10+ years of industry experience in highly performant online systems, online recommendation systems or ads serving infrastructure
- Strong cross-functional collaborator and communicator
- Proven experience building solutions at scale in a fast paced environment
- Demonstrated people leadership with a focus on team development and skills progression
What the job involves
- Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms and our continued success depends on rapidly scaling our core revenue-generating systems. Specifically, we need 10X the scale of our ad delivery platforms, while enabling developers inside Pinterest and external advertisers/merchants to build and iterate rapidly on new features
- You’ll lead a team that is responsible for building the next-generation ads serving infra to empower Pinterest ads business, because every dollar Pinterest earns flows through these systems. You will work closely with ads quality and product stakeholders to enable innovations of Pinterest ads delivery products at scale
- Manage managers and ICs
- Collaborate with PMs and stakeholders across the organization to architect ads serving systems to unlock Pinterest ads product innovations
- Grow a fast growing engineering organization with managers and senior ICs, setting the technical vision, guiding the day-to-day execution, as well as fostering good team health and culture
- Lead the team to build the next-generation Pinterest next-gen blender infrastructure for the whole page optimizations
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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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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