Manager II, Technical Program Management Platforms

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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.

Pinterests Platforms TPM team helps the company build a future-proof scalable and efficient technology ecosystem by turning platform strategy into clear executable cross-team programs. We partner closely with engineering leadership across Quality Engineering Client Foundations Ads Foundations and Core Infrastructure to drive modernization improve reliability and software quality and accelerate delivery across Pinterests most important technical foundations.

What youll do:

• Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM executionproducing AI-assisted first drafts of core program artifacts modernizing high-toil workflows into AI-first mechanisms (e.g. intake triage status synthesis action/decision extraction risk & dependency tracking) and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks decision/trade-offs and escalation paths.
• Prototype solutions to augment decisions through data (e.g. dashboards data analysis) or simplify processes (e.g. process and workflow helpers or internal tools) using AI coding assistants (vibe coding).
• Follow Pinterest AI guidance for risk governance and safety-by-design: appropriately handle sensitive data validate AI-generated outputs document assumptions/limits and ensure AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy/compliance expectations before broad adoption.
• Lead a portfolio of complex cross-functional technical programs across Quality Engineering Client Foundations and Ads & Core Infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering leaders to define program outcomes establish execution plans manage dependencies and risks and drive delivery against multi-quarter goals.
• Build and run an integrated operating cadence across the portfolio including roadmap planning milestones decision forums status updates and escalation paths.
• Drive programs that improve software quality engineering hygiene release confidence reliability and developer productivity across foundational platform investments. This includes areas such as code coverage bug and incident SLAs release quality and platform modernization.
• Lead technical program management for client foundations modernization across iOS Android and Web helping improve testability maintainability developer workflows and safe release practices.
• Drive foundational programs across Ads and Core Infrastructure including modernization reliability improvements platform simplification and better execution across shared infrastructure and APIs. The related portfolio includes initiatives such as search/discovery infrastructure modernization ingestion and catalog unification media pipelines and developer productivity improvements.
• Manage and develop a small TPM team while remaining hands-on with the most strategic or highest-risk programs.

What were looking for:

• AI-first execution mindset: demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning program operations and stakeholder communicationsstarting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate refine and drive decisions.
• Workflow design AI fluency data & insights orientation: experience turning repeatable program work into durable low-toil mechanisms and improving decision-making by using GenAI (e.g. strong prompting vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools dashboards data analysis and leveraging agents where appropriate)
• Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment data handling model/output validation auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.
• Significant experience leading large cross-team technical programs in ambiguous environments with complex technical and organizational dependencies.
• Experience translating strategy and organizational goals into a clear multi-quarter roadmap with milestones dependencies and measurable outcomes.
• Strong execution discipline including risk management governance dependency tracking and driving accountability across multiple teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills including the ability to frame tradeoffs drive alignment and communicate crisply with senior technical leaders.
• Technical fluency across platform and infrastructure domains such as distributed systems APIs reliability/observability developer tooling client platforms or data/infrastructure systems.
• Experience driving modernization quality or platform transformation efforts that improve reliability speed productivity or software quality.
• People leadership experience including coaching setting direction and growing team capability over time.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field 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 recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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