Senior Manager of Technical Program Management, Pinterest
$135.2-278k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$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
- Experience: 10+ years of Technical Program Management (TPM) or solutions/partner engineering experience
- Technical Integration: Experience integrating APIs at scale using SDKs or writing custom client code.Leadership: Proven experience in managing people in varying roles within one team.Strategic Vision:
- Forward-thinking in terms of team and API program strategy; ability to manage ambiguity, devise future planning, and collaborate with XFN partners to expand the current scope continuously
- Technical Proficiency: Ability to read and write complex scripts for data manipulation or API integrations using shell scripting or programming languages such as Python
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with experience delivering strategic presentations and narratives, both internally and externally
What the job involves
- The PinTech team at Pinterest is dedicated to fostering partnerships with a diverse array of companies to ensure our Pinners enjoy world-class experiences that inspire them to create a life they love. As the Manager II, Technical Program Management, you will lead a team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs), Product Specialists and a vendor engineering team
- Your responsibilities will include supporting PinTech teams, encompassing Partner Engineering, Support Engineering, and API Product. You will collaborate with various engineering teams to develop API strategies and coordinate with Business Development, Sales, and Engineering leadership to understand client demands and facilitate new API integrations
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing team of TPMs and vendor engineers, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional (XFN) stakeholders to identify and prioritize the needs of tiered advertisers and Martech/Business Partners
- Project Management: Identify and lead key projects to facilitate advertiser API adoption and streamline the overall API integration process. Drives large vague, complex and strategic programs cross-functionally and cross-level (where the program is company strategic, delivers on a company OKR, complex, vague and/or spans multiple organizations)
- Mentorship: Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members, fostering a culture of growth and innovation.Optimization: Continuously seek opportunities to optimize API adoption, onboarding, and product offerings, and relay insights to the relevant product and engineering teams
- Metrics Monitoring: Establish and monitor key metrics to measure the success of API adoption, onboarding, and product usage.API Product Roadmap: Influence the API product roadmap by sharing insights and feedback from priority clients
- Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with product leadership to set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for API adoption success, ensuring future solutions are positioned effectively and successfully in the market
- Communication: Strong client-facing skills who can actively participate in client meetings alongside the Business Development and Sales teams as needed. It is essential for candidates to be highly customer-focused in this role. Communicate effectively (clear, concise, appropriate level of detail) to all levels of leadership
- Collaboration: Ability to build strong relationships with team members and stakeholders, facilitating open and effective dialogue, and working jointly towards the successful execution of program objectives and goals
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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