Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Signals

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As a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager for Search Signals at Pinterest, you will lead company-level programs that are foundational to Pinterest’s strategic transformation into a shopping and inspiration platform. This role is responsible for driving innovation and execution across offsite signals, content understanding, and relevance, with direct impact on multiple company OKRs. You will operate at the intersection of technical depth, cross-org influence, and long-term business strategy, shaping the future of search and personalization at Pinterest.

What you’ll do:

Strategic Leadership & Vision

Envision and trailblaze the company’s approach to leveraging offsite and onsite signals, anticipating future business, technical, and regulatory challenges.

Drive the creation and evolution of the company-wide roadmap for signals, aligning business objectives with technical capabilities and directly impacting multiple company OKRs.

Identify opportunities for long-term business innovation and differentiation, ensuring Pinterest remains at the forefront of search and recommendation technologies.

Program Execution & Outcomes

Oversee and deliver company-level programs that span multiple organizations, managing ambiguity and risk at scale.

Lead the technical execution and delivery of signals initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality results across interconnected projects.

Develop and achieve program-specific metrics and targets, driving the resolution of complex technical and program management challenges through conceptual and innovative thinking.

Influence & Cross-Org Leadership

Influence at the VP/staff level, providing thought leadership in program and product management across Pinterest.

Guide and motivate teams, fostering an environment of accountability, inclusion, and high performance.

Serve as the primary liaison with AI Research teams and other partner organizations to accelerate the adoption of new models (LLMs, VLMs, recommender systems) and ensure seamless integration into core Pinterest experiences.

Collaboration & Communication

Evangelize the vision and progress of signals programs to all levels of leadership, including the Executive Team, ensuring clear, concise, and impactful communication.

Drive consensus and propose informed tradeoffs across the company, balancing technical, business, and regulatory considerations.

Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and external data partners.

Technical & Domain Expertise