Pinterest Logo

Pinterest

Technical Program Manager II, Shopping Platforms

Posted 6 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
104K-214K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
104K-214K Annually
Mid level
Drive Shopping catalog and indexing technical programs from planning through completion. Manage engineering owners, timelines, dependencies, working-team cadences, dashboards, reporting, and cross-functional stakeholder communication. Use GenAI, data analysis, lightweight tools, and workflow automation to improve execution, surface risks, and support decisions while following AI governance, safety, validation, and compliance requirements.
The summary above was generated by AI

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, we’re 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 other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll 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.

The Team

  • Pinterest's Shopping & Delivery Infrastructure team builds and operates the catalog, indexing, retrieval, and serving systems that power Shopping and ads across every Pinterest surface, from search and homefeed to P2P and international markets. Our mission is to make Pinterest's shopping and delivery stack unified, scalable, and low-latency so we can drive sustainable revenue growth, exceptional Pinner experiences, and measurable advertiser outcomes. We're in the middle of a multi-year transformation of the stack, and we work closely with catalog, indexing, retrieval, serving, ads quality, and product teams to make Pinterest's shopping infrastructure faster, more reliable, and ready to scale.

What You'll Do

  • Independently drive a well-defined portfolio of Shopping catalog and indexing programs, keeping engineering owners, timelines, and dependencies on track.
  • Run the day-to-day working-team cadence including standups, planning, decision-tracking, and documentation, so the team stays aligned on priorities and next steps.
  • Build and maintain program dashboards and reporting that give engineering and cross-functional stakeholders a clear view of progress, risk, and decisions.
  • Manage cross-team dependencies with partner teams across catalog, indexing, retrieval, serving, and ads quality.
  • Communicate clearly in writing and verbally across
  • Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM execution—producing 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.

What We're Looking For

  • 2–4 years of TPM experience independently driving technical programs to completion, ideally within infrastructure, platform, or data-adjacent environments.
  • Solid foundational understanding of distributed systems concepts — services, streaming pipelines, batch vs real-time processing.
  • Strong execution and follow-through, with a track record of running multiple concurrent workstreams without dropping the ball.
  • Comfortable working with data — building dashboards, tracking metrics, and turning progress into clear status updates.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with experience managing cross-team dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
  • Experience with ads, monetization, streaming systems (Flink/Kafka), or financial-controls processes is a plus; willingness to learn the domain is essential.
  • 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.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience.

Join us and help scale the systems that power Pinterest's Shopping and Ads business!


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.

#LI-REMOTE

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only
$103,965—$214,044 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
 
By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

Pinterest New York, New York, USA Office

1450 Broadway, New York, New York, United States, 10018

Similar Jobs

49 Minutes Ago
Easy Apply
Remote or Hybrid
Easy Apply
158K-225K Annually
Senior level
158K-225K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Build and operate production LLM-powered agents and machine learning systems for customer risk identification and threat detection. Translate security heuristics into agent logic, collaborate with threat researchers, develop data requirements and pipelines, evaluate precision and recall, and deploy solutions through CI/CD. The role also requires production reliability ownership, observability, incident debugging, cloud infrastructure expertise, and senior staff-level technical leadership.
Top Skills: AthenaAWSCi/CdDockerElasticsearchLangchainLanggraphLlm AgentsNumpyOpensearchPandasPolarsPrestoPythonSQL
49 Minutes Ago
Easy Apply
Remote or Hybrid
Easy Apply
116K-165K Annually
Senior level
116K-165K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Develop production LLM-powered agents and machine learning solutions for customer risk identification and threat detection. Translate threat-research methods into agent logic, build data requirements and pipelines, evaluate precision and recall, backtest and tune models, and deploy and monitor reliable solutions using CI/CD. Collaborate with threat researchers and data engineers while addressing production reliability, observability, data quality, cost, latency, and accuracy.
Top Skills: AthenaAWSCi/CdContainerizationElasticsearchInfrastructure As CodeLangchainLanggraphLlmsMachine LearningNumpyOpensearchPandasPolarsPrestoPythonSQL
56 Minutes Ago
Remote or Hybrid
105K-173K Annually
Senior level
105K-173K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • HR Tech • Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Automation
Owns and operates a scaled digital customer success program for mid-market SaaS customers from onboarding through renewal. Designs lifecycle campaigns, adoption plays, automated risk interventions, segmentation, health scores, and customer journeys. Partners with CSMs, Product, Marketing, and CS Operations to improve adoption, retention, customer health, and revenue outcomes. Builds dashboards, analyzes customer behavior, leverages AI and automation, and translates insights into scalable customer engagement actions.
Top Skills: AIAutomationCrm SystemsCustomer Success PlatformsMarketing Automation ToolsSaaS

What you need to know about the NYC Tech Scene

As the undisputed financial capital of the world, New York City is an epicenter of startup funding activity. The city has a thriving fintech scene and is a major player in verticals ranging from AI to biotech, cybersecurity and digital media. It also has universities like NYU, Columbia and Cornell Tech attracting students and researchers from across the globe, providing the ecosystem with a constant influx of world-class talent. And its East Coast location and three international airports make it a perfect spot for European companies establishing a foothold in the United States.

Key Facts About NYC Tech

  • Number of Tech Workers: 549,200; 6% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
  • Major Tech Employers: Capgemini, Bloomberg, IBM, Spotify
  • Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, Fintech
  • Funding Landscape: $25.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
  • Notable Investors: Greycroft, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Tiger Global Management, Tribeca Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Two Sigma Ventures
  • Research Centers and Universities: Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, CUNY, AI Now Institute, Flatiron Institute, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, NASA Space Radiation Laboratory

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account