Principal Product Manager, AI Compliance
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest were on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions transform passion into growth opportunities celebrate each others unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love Its Possible.
At Pinterest AI isnt just a feature its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact and were looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities well explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process what matters most is that you can always explain your approach showing us not just what you know but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Pinterest runs on AI and our AI governance and compliance program ensures that AI is developed deployed and used in ways that align with evolving legal requirements Pinterests values and our longterm strategy. As the Principal Product Manager AI Compliance youll define and drive the product strategy that ensures our Pinner and Advertiser facing artificial intelligence models are developed deployed and used in a way that are aligned with our values strategic objectives and account for relevant obligations. Youll shape how Pinterest uses data models and tooling to innovate quickly and responsibly.
What youll do:
- Drive AI compliance and governance product strategy across Pinner- and advertiser-facing AI products ensuring that model training and inference align with global regulatory obligations internal policies and Pinterests values.
- Own user-facing and internal data controls for AI training (e.g. AI data opt-out mechanisms) setting requirements and roadmaps that balance product performance privacy and regulatory needs while ensuring effective internal enforcement and awareness.
- Expand and support AI compliance toolingfrom detection and labeling systems (such as watermarking and provenance) to governance workflows and inventoriesso teams across Pinterest can build compliant AI experiences efficiently and consistently.
- Partner deeply with Legal Privacy Policy Security and Engineering to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear prioritized product workstreams and scalable platform capabilities.
- Lead high-visibility cross-functional programs that span multiple product areas infrastructure and engineering teams creating alignment on tradeoffs sequencing and resourcing for AI governance initiatives across the company.
- Serve as a principal-level thought partner on AI governance influencing long-range AI product strategy identifying new risk or compliance gaps early and advocating for the infrastructure and processes needed to keep Pinterest ahead of regulatory change.
What were looking for:
- Deep AI/ML or data platform product experience including building or scaling products that rely on model training data user data or complex backend systems; experience in AI safety responsible AI or AI compliance is a strong plus.
- Proven success driving cross-company multi-year programs at a Staff/Principal level (or equivalent) especially in ambiguous problem spaces that require both strategic frameworks and hands-on execution.
- Experience working closely with Legal Privacy Policy and Security teams to operationalize regulatory or policy requirements into product features data controls and platform capabilities.
- Fluency with data and governance conceptscomfortable reasoning about data classification lineage retention opt-outs and enforcement and partnering with technical teams to define robust measurement and monitoring.
- Track record of building or scaling compliance or governance tooling such as policy engines inventories/registries detection or labeling systems approval workflows or audit and reporting capabilities.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills with the ability to align executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners around a clear point of view on AI risk compliance tradeoffs and sequencing.
- Comfort operating in fast-changing regulatory and technical environments with a bias toward pragmatic principle-driven solutions that protect users and the business while enabling innovation.
- Ability to lead and operate in highly ambiguous environments and execute with urgency.
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office 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 in-person collaboration periodically (for example 12 times per quarter) and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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About Company
Join the people behind the product to build a more positive internet for Pinterest users worldwide.