Senior Strategy & Operations Lead, Pinterest
$146.6-301.7k
+ Eligible for 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
$146.6-301.7k
+ Eligible for equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or equivalent roles in technology/media
- Experience in content, media, or the creator ecosystem, with familiarity across content, product + monetization
- Demonstrated structured problem solving - including framing ambiguous questions, developing hypotheses, design analyses, and translating them into actionable recommendations
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional programs end-to-end—from problem definition and analysis to decision-making and execution
- Exceptional narrative storytelling and communication skills; able to synthesize complex data and ambiguous signals into crisp executive ready narratives that drive alignment
- Experience influencing without authority across multiple XFN functions (including Partnerships, Editorial, Product, Biz Ops)
- Organized, detail-oriented and strategically focused, with a bias for action
- Strong analytical skills - familiarity with SQL and independently querying and structuring data required, Tableau and Salesforce preferred
What the job involves
- The Global Content & Operations (GC&O) team is looking for a Senior Strategy & Operations Lead to drive some of our most important cross-functional initiatives. In this high-impact IC role, you’ll partner directly with GC&O and cross-company leaders to shape strategy, build the operating model, and ensure we’re executing efficiently against our biggest content and creator bets
- You’ll own a portfolio of strategic and operational programs—from defining and structuring problems, to turning them into actionable recommendations and helping drive their execution —that increase engagement, monetization, and effectiveness across our global content ecosystem
- Work directly with key Global Content & Operations leaders on critical initiatives designed to grow the creator ecosystem, team productivity and operational efficiency
- Work with and influence cross-functional teams including Analytics, Product, Finance, Sales and Business Operations
- 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 priorities for the content and creator ecosystem
- Develop executive-ready narratives that synthesize complex data, market dynamics, and internal signals into clear, compelling stories used in strategy and alignment reviews with senior stakeholders
- Operates as a strategic thought partner to leadership, helping shape what Pinterest should build, accelerate, or rethink to unlock engagement growth
- Own data analysis 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)
- Leverage insights from key business drivers, trends and operating metrics, and communicate recommendations to GC&O leadership and the broader organization
- Proactively identify and redefine opportunities that improve and scale our business (e.g. processes, systems, operational improvements)
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 X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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