Staff Technical Program Manager Search Signals

At Pinterest our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. As a Technical Program Manager on the Search team with a focus on CU Signal Relevance and Offsite Signals youll be at the forefront of enhancing our search and shopping experience. This role involves understanding content deeply leveraging external data and driving strategic initiatives that impact user engagement ad targeting and overall platform quality.

What youll do:

• Strategic Planning and Roadmap Management: Work with Product and Engineering leaders to define the strategic direction and roadmap for CU signals relevance and offsite signals initiatives. Prioritize projects based on business impact technical feasibility and resource availability.
• Technical and Delivery: Manage the technical of CU signal relevance and offsite signals projects ensuring ontime delivery and highquality results. Coordinate with Engineering teams to build test and deploy new signals and relevance models. Track and report on project progress identify and mitigate risks and resolve dependencies. Oversee the process of acquiring offsite data including negotiating agreements setting up data pipelines and ensuring data quality and compliance.
• Crossfunctional Collaboration and Alignment: Coordinate with external partners (merchants data providers) and internal teams (Engineering Product Legal Privacy) to ensure seamless data acquisition integration and usage. Facilitate communication and aligning roadmaps between different teams that rely on offsite signals (e.g. Ads Core). Act as a central point of contact for offsite signals initiatives managing expectations and resolving dependencies. Facilitate communication and collaboration between different teams involved in CU signals and relevance (e.g. Search Homefeed Ads). Ensure alignment on goals priorities and timelines across teams.
• Data Acquisition and Management: Oversee the process of acquiring offsite data including negotiating agreements setting up data pipelines and ensuring data quality and compliance. Work with engineering teams to build and maintain the infrastructure for storing processing and analyzing offsite signals. Define and track key metrics for offsite signal data quality coverage and performance.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to streamline offsite signal data acquisition integration and usage. Develop best practices and documentation for offsite signal management. Identify and implement process improvements to streamline the development deployment and maintenance of CU signals and relevance models. Work on standardizing the signal adoption and deprecation process.
• Legal and Privacy Compliance: Work closely with Legal and Privacy teams to ensure that all offsite signal activities comply with applicable regulations and policies. Manage data access controls and ensure data security.
• Tooling and Infrastructure: Collaborate with Engineering to improve the tooling and infrastructure for CU signals and relevance such as data pipelines model training platforms and evaluation frameworks. Track and report on the performance and reliability of these systems.
• Evaluation and Measurement: Define and track key metrics for CU signal and relevance performance such as search relevance recommendation quality and user engagement. Work with Data Science and Analytics teams to evaluate the impact of CU signal and relevance changes.

What were looking for:

• BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience 7 years in a technical or analytical role)
• Strong technical breadth and judgment ability to quickly ramp up and go deep on a range of technologies ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs
• Comfort with a fastchanging environment and ability to manage ambiguity
• Focus on and delivery in a datainformed environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work crossfunctionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions
• Exceptional relationshipbuilding skills organizational awareness and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability
• Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable
• Experience with data acquisition integration and management especially for offsite signals is a plus.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

InOffice Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for inperson collaboration 12 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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