Engineering Manager, Pinterest
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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
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering, 3+ years in engineering management leading end to end product teams
- A thought leader and cross functional partner who drives innovation and gets high performance from strong engineers
- Proven experience building large scale distributed systems and mobile experiences in consumer, ads or commerce domains
- Deep comfort with experiments, metrics and ambiguity - you use data and fast iteration to find product market fit
- Excitement about applied genAI and how it can turn content into action for Pinners, merchants and advertisers
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Verticalized Shopping - an end to end mobile and backend team that makes every Pin actionable, from first spark of inspiration to purchase
- You will own the technical vision and execution for shopping experiences that cut across Ads, Content, and Growth, and pioneer how we use genAI to turn messy human inspiration into clear next steps for Pinners
- Your team will move fast, ship experiments, and learn in the open to drive utility, retention and revenue, working closely with Product, Design, Data Science and our commerce partnerships
- You will hire and grow high caliber engineers, set a high bar for craft and speed, and build simple systems and processes that let the team do the best work of their careers while shaping the future of commerce on Pinterest
- Leading an end to end mobile and backend team that makes every Pin more shoppable and actionable
- Owning the technical roadmap for verticalized shopping across Ads, Content and Growth
- Pioneering how we use genAI to turn inspiration into clear next steps for Pinners
- Driving an experiment led culture that learns fast on utility, retention and revenue
- Hiring growing and inspiring high caliber engineers to do the best work of their careers
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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