Senior Director Technical Program Management Platforms

Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Summary:

As a direct report to Pinterests 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 Pinterests 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.

What youll do:

Platform Transformation & Strategy: Own and drive the program execution and directly contribute to our multi-year strategy for Pinterests 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 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.

What were looking for:

Strategic Program Leadership: Proven ability to define and drive complex cross-company multi-year technology transformation programs with clear measurable business impact.
Technical Domain Expertise:

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.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent experience.

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Position Summary:As a direct report to Pinterests 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 Pinterests multi-year platform and infrastructu...

Position Summary:

What youll do:

Platform Transformation & Strategy: Own and drive the program execution and directly contribute to our multi-year strategy for Pinterests 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 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.

What were looking for:

Strategic Program Leadership: Proven ability to define and drive complex cross-company multi-year technology transformation programs with clear measurable business impact.
Technical Domain Expertise:

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.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent experience.