Staff Technical Program Manager, Pinterest
Recommendation Systems
$135.2-278k
+ Equity
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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
$135.2-278k
+ 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 (10+ 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 recommendation systems at a low level of detail highly desirable
What the job involves
- As a Technical Program Manager on the Core team, you will help drive the recommendation systems that power the Pinterest platform
- Recommendations are the fuel that drives the user experience and ongoing engagement for all Pinners
- You will be a critical team member helping to build and implement solutions to better serve recommendations in numerous ways
- Establish and own relationships with key partners across Relevance teams as their strategic and execution partner for delivering high impact programs
- Define and drive Personalization 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
- Build a subject-matter-expertise on capabilities and tactics that can be used in recommendation systems and understand tradeoffs
- Drive product, business, and OKR requirements while also streamlining engineering efforts and cost
- Partner with product on net-new operating mechanisms, build a framework to evaluate the efficacy of various recommendation tactics, and evangelize the best of Pinterest’s recommendation platform across teams and surfaces to ensure the greatest recommendation capabilities are available across the product
- Advocate for product and execution changes where necessary
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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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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