Senior Director of Technical Program Management, Pinterest
Platforms
$260-455k
+ Eligible for equity
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$260-455k
+ Eligible for equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Strategic Program Leadership: Proven ability to define and drive complex, cross-company, multi-year technology transformation programs with clear, measurable business impact
- Cloud & Compute: Deep experience with cloud architectures (AWS), Kubernetes, and orchestrating large-scale compute migration and modernization efforts
- Data Infrastructure: Extensive knowledge of modern data platforms, governance, privacy, and compliance at scale
- Developer Productivity: Proven track record of advancing CI/CD, developer tooling, and workflow automation to significantly increase engineering velocity
- Executive Communication & Influence: Exceptional ability to align, communicate, and influence VPs, C-suite executives, and cross-functional partners across both business and engineering
- Leadership and Team Building: Strong capability to recruit, mentor, develop, and inspire high-performing TPM teams, fostering organizational growth and capability building
- Change and Risk Management: Expertise in leading through technical ambiguity, managing operational change, driving incident response, and ensuring resilient outcomes
- Process and Standards: Experience implementing best-in-class process frameworks, documentation, auditability, and operational rigor
- Innovation and Future-Readiness: Vision to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies (AI, multi-cloud, automation) to ensure Pinterest maintains its position at the industry forefront
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- As a direct report to Pinterest’s VP of Technical Program Management, Strategy, & Operations, the Senior Director of Technical Program Management (“TPM”) - Platforms will be responsible for leading a high-performing team of T/PgMs to execute Pinterest’s multi-year platform and infrastructure strategy
- This leader will work closely with the VP of Engineering - Platforms and cross-functional teams, including Product and Finance, to ensure the successful delivery of multi-year strategic programs, drive reliability and scalability, and optimize costs
- Success in this role requires exceptional leadership, collaboration, and influencing skills, along with a proven track record of delivering significant impact within a fast-paced, high-growth technology platform of substantial scale
- Platform Transformation & Strategy: Own and drive the program execution and directly contribute to our multi-year strategy for Pinterest's next-generation infrastructure, impacting hundreds of millions of users and thousands of engineers globally
- Executive Partnership: Partner directly with the VP of Engineering and senior executives to influence technology direction, investment priorities, and the platform vision across the company
- TPM Team Leadership: Mentor, grow, and empower a world-class TPM team, championing programs that modernize, unify, and elevate the way Pinterest engineers build and deliver
- Innovation and Operational Excellence: Provide TPM leadership for bold initiatives in automation, cloud adoption, AI integration, and developer productivity, setting industry standards to enable breakthrough features, significant cost efficiency, and operational excellence
- End-to-End Platform Modernization: Provide TPM leadership for the migration to a unified compute environment (PinCompute), the decommissioning of legacy infrastructure, and the standardization of core data and platform systems. Oversee critical platform and data migrations, technical debt elimination, and the adoption of canonical, scalable solutions.Infrastructure Governance and Fiscal Discipline: Define and implement transparent processes for infrastructure spend planning, tracking, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to deploy tooling and dashboards that ensure disciplined, data-driven investment and efficient use of resources
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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