IT Program Manager, Pinterest
$90.8-187k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$90.8-187k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in a cross-functional environment and enjoy enabling others to succeed, we want to meet you!
- Experience as an IT Analyst, Project Manager, or Program Manager in a technology-focused environment
- Strong organizational and process management skills
- Comfortable with basic data analysis; able to interpret and visualize IT portfolio data
- Skilled at building relationships and communicating effectively across technical and business teams
- Service-oriented: enjoys enabling others to take ownership and succeed
- Adaptable, eager to proactively identify and solve problems
- Bonus: Experience with application portfolio management, rationalization programs, or capacity planning
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Pinterest is seeking a seasoned IT Program Manager to help scale and modernize how we manage technology programs across the organization. This unique role blends program administration, process ownership, and basic quantitative analysis—perfect for candidates who bring experience as an IT Analyst or IT Program Manager and are looking to deepen their impact without direct ownership of every process
- You’ll play a central role in overseeing capacity and portfolio planning, supporting app rationalization initiatives, and empowering Product Owners to take on increasing responsibility with clear but flexible guardrails.
- Administer IT Programs & Processes:
- Act as the central administrator for core IT processes (portfolio management, capacity planning, and resource allocation). Maintain program documentation and coordinate updates across teams
- Drive Capacity & Resource Planning:
- Help forecast and track IT resource allocation, work with business partners to align resources to strategic needs, and flag potential constraints or bottlenecks
- Enable & Support Product Owners:
- Build and maintain lightweight frameworks that empower Product Owners to own and drive their programs—offering guidance and best practices without heavy-handed oversight
- Support Application Rationalization:
- Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize opportunities to consolidate, optimize, or sunset existing applications
- Process Ownership with a Service Mindset:
- Own continuous improvement for key IT processes, soliciting feedback and collaborating with teams to simplify and standardize ways of working
- Quantitative Analysis & Reporting:
- Conduct basic quantitative analyses (e.g., preparing dashboards, charts, or summary metrics) to inform decision making and highlight trends or risks
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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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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
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