Engineering Manager, Pinterest
Ad Formats
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Office located in 85 Richmond St, Toronto
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
Office located in 85 Richmond St, Toronto
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong preference for candidates with mobile engineering experience
- Track record of developing high quality software in an automated build and deployment environment
- Experience leading a team of engineers through a significant feature or product launch in collaboration with Product and Design
- Previous experience working closely with Product Management and Design cross-functional partners, and an ability to play part of those roles in guiding the priorities and roadmap of the product owned by the team, on top of the usual EM responsibilities
What the job involves
- The Ad Formats team mission is to drive advertiser outcomes with creative and performant ads that inspire Pinners to take action
- Ad Formats sits at the nexus of Advertiser and Pinner needs and outcomes. A multidisciplinary organization composed of Android, iOS, Web, and Backend engineers, the organization drives revenue for the company via developing new Ad Formats, improving the performance of existing Ad Formats, as well as creating new opportunities to increase ads supply and introduce new sources of ads demand
- As an Engineering Manager for the team, you will help build the team, set and deliver on a vision/roadmap through helping mentor and guide the professional/technical development of team members
- Build and lead a team of mobile and backend engineer
- The team will initially consist of 4 engineers reporting to you with potential to grow further
- In this role, you will do roadmap planning twice a year (Pinterest plans on a 6-month basis), run 2-week sprints, and report progress to stakeholders on a monthly basis
- Provide a vision to the team, drive technical excellence, and partner with key stakeholders to prioritize the team's roadmap. The team partners with peer teams in the infra org and cross-functional product teams (homefeed, search etc) to identify developer enabling capabilities the team can deliver to allow product teams to build with ease. This EM should have enough of a technical base to understand technical problems and solutions to address these problems
- Partner closely with our customers on the Ads Quality and Ads Product teams to inform our strategy, and accelerate launches that deliver significant gains in revenue, CTR, CPAs, etc
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of the members of the team. This includes hiring top talent and providing feedback to existing team members to accelerate their growth. Tactically this EM is expected to run weekly 1:1s with their team and participate in company-wide review processes like mid and year-end reviews
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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