Staff Product Owner, Pinterest
Sales
$135.2-278k
+ Equity
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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
$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
- You possess a mix of technical strength, business strength, and the ability to navigate stakeholders across different business areas and have experience building cross-functional relationships across engineering and business peers to ensure objectives are well defined and clearly understood
- You are able to navigate working at the strategic level (e.g. generating innovative ideas for growth, establishing KPI’s, leading through change management) and at the tactical level (e.g. analyzing data, solving problems, being a force multiplier)
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of 10 years product management experience with minimum 2+ years in a product role in a global organization
- Strong understanding of core sales processes such as lead generation and management, account management, territory management, quoting, order management, sales support, forecasting etc. Experience in the ads industry is preferred
- Systems implementation experience in three or more sales process areas preferably with SaaS platforms
- Preferential consideration given to those with strong expertise in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies, along with a solid understanding of global and regional processes and workflows
- Excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to navigate cross-cultural and cross-functional environments
- Nimble to deliver for stakeholders: You know how to navigate hurdles and stay focused on great customer experience
- Proficiency in guiding and managing several teams focused on product development, with a high level of comfort in steering multiple roadmaps
- Ability to coach and role model product management best practices across the organization
- A natural decision-maker who inspires the confidence of those they work with. Has the ability to present their case with confidence
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies
- Outcome oriented: You focus on delivering outcomes compared to outputs by leveraging technology to positively impact key business performance metrics
What the job involves
- Are you passionate about building impactful products for finance teams? Come join the IT Enterprise Systems team at Pinterest where you will have the responsibility for creating the future to evolve our sales systems
- You will define end-to-end strategy, define the roadmap and drive execution across multiple product teams for Pinterest’s sales systems and tools portfolio
- You will partner with the strategic product leader to produce a detailed product roadmap and convert it into functional work
- You will partner with business leaders to understand business needs and priorities, ensure the IT team is enabling and driving growth and achieving appropriate service levels
- You will develop and maintain a vision and corresponding KPI’s that make a compelling case for continued investment. Preparing budgets, allocating resources, and delegating tasks
- You will own, prioritize, communicate, and evangelize product roadmap across IT and business stakeholders
- You will engage the business to identify their needs and spot opportunities to build features that increase engagement and drive efficiencies
- You will communicate strategy, priorities and consistent product messaging to stakeholders and users
- You will ensure that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving cost efficiencies, end user productivity, and improve management of income and cash
- You will build and maintain strong working relationships with various internal stakeholder groups, including IT, Sales Strategy and Operations, and Sales Enablement teams
- You will be responsible for vendor relationships by managing contract renewals and ensuring we are getting the expected value
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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