Staff Product Manager, Connections

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Each month the Growth organization helps over 600M people around the world come back to Pinterest discover new inspiration and go deeper on the ideas they love. Connections is a key area within Growth focused on how people connect with others they care about on Pinterest from close friends and family to trusted communities that share their interests. The Connections team builds products that make those relationships feel natural safe and uniquely Pinterest.

As a Staff Product Manager for Connections one of our most important retention and engagement drivers youll serve as a product lead for how Pinners connect with people they know and with communities they trust and how those relationships show up across the product including discovery collaboration messaging and notifications.

Youll report to the Sr. Director Product Management (Growth) and work with a team of PMs across the Pinterest stack from foundational identity and the systems that power relationships between people and content to social-forward new experiences that feel native to Pinterest. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on leading the Connections area through product vision strategy and cross-functional leadership.

What youll do:

• Support the endtoend Connections strategy and roadmap leading core experiences and systems that help Pinners connect with people and communities they trust and translating that into measurable product impact.
• Shape how social shows up on Pinterest by making connection experiences feel distinctly Pinterest: safe personal lowpressure and grounded in shared interests.
• Create cohesive crosssurface experiences by partnering with other Core product teams so our connection features are consistent useful and help Pinners stay in the loop without feeling overwhelmed.
• Drive alignment across a broad product area by bringing together senior leaders and crossfunctional partners (Engineering Data Science Design Product Marketing Policy Research and others) around a clear strategy success measures and execution plan for Connections and by enabling teams to build on shared components and patterns.
• Provide product leadership and mentorship across the Connections PM group helping PMs sharpen strategy execution and product craft and fostering a culture of experimentation and accountability to impact.
• Champion safety wellbeing and trust by partnering with Policy Trust & Safety and Wellbeing to ensure connection experiences uphold Pinterests values and by supporting guardrails and controls that let Pinners connect on their own terms and manage how theyre discovered contacted and notified.
• Make Connections insightdriven by defining how youll assess the health and impact of connection experiences with Data Science and using quantitative and qualitative insights to guide prioritization refine the roadmap and communicate progress.
• Represent Connections across Pinterest by serving as a senior product leader and key point of contact for the area aligning the roadmap with company priorities articulating the role of connections in Pinner value and business outcomes and ensuring the work is understood and leveraged across adjacent teams.

What were looking for:

• Demonstrated track record of driving engagement and growth leading highimpact product work that improved user engagement and longterm use and clearly articulating your role in the strategy metrics and execution.
• Experience setting roadmaps and building healthy highperforming teams in ambiguous spaces.
• AI forward experience with agentic tools to inform product strategy roadmap communication and prototyping.
• Strength in horizontal leadership and alignment bringing together multiple product surfaces infrastructure teams and senior stakeholders around a shared plan and making thoughtful tradeoffs and sequencing decisions.
• Technical and analytical depth including comfort with concepts like: recommendations social graphs messaging largescale experimentation and the ability to dive into data independently and use insights to reshape the roadmap.
• Communication and storytelling skills with the ability to frame a clear narrative about Pinterests role in helping people feel connected communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences and generate buyin from executives peers and cross-functional partners.
• A usercentric empathetic approach to building products especially in emotionally sensitive spaces like relationships community and belonging and a track record of turning research and qualitative insights into thoughtful differentiated product experiences.
• Nice to have: Experience with safety integrity or wellbeing in social products; experience building or evolving crossplatform social primitives (e.g. follows friends groups messaging recommendations/ML); and a background in or passion for commerce and creator ecosystems.
• 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.

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