Lead the Core, Ads, Quality and Client Foundations program portfolio as a hands-on Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management, partnering with the Platform engineering leadership.
Set an integrated multi-quarter program strategy, roadmap and execution cadence across the portfolio, including milestones, dependencies, risks and decision forums.
Drive technical program management for Core + Ads foundations modernization and consolidation, including catalog and ingestion unification, search and discovery infrastructure modernization (indexing, retrieval/embeddings, crawling/scraping and content extraction, media signals and video/media pipelines).
Drive Client Foundations modernization across iOS, Android and Web, developer tooling foundations to improve code coverage, strengthen engineering hygiene and enable safer, faster releases.
Manage and grow a small team (2–3 TPMs to start), coaching for ownership, decision quality and delivery.

Requirements

10+ years of experience as a technical program manager
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience.
Experience leading large, cross-team technical programs with high ambiguity, complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
Experience setting multi-quarter program strategy and translating it into an executable roadmap, clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Strong executive communication skills, including concise status, risks, tradeoffs and decision framing for senior leaders.
Technical fluency across platform domains (distributed systems, reliability/observability, data pipelines and client platforms) to guide planning, ask the right questions and unblock teams.
Experience driving modernization and consolidation initiatives that improve reliability, productivity and software quality.
People leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management and building team capability over time.

Benefits

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

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