Principal Product Manager, AI Compliance
Zigsaw
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $228,911 - $471,286 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive AI compliance and governance product strategy across Pinner- and advertiser-facing AI products, ensuring that model training and inference align with global regulatory obligations, internal policies, and Pinterest’s values.
- Own user-facing and internal data controls for AI training (e.g., AI data opt-out mechanisms), setting requirements and roadmaps that balance product performance, privacy, and regulatory needs while ensuring effective internal enforcement and awareness.
- Expand and support AI compliance tooling—from detection and labeling systems (such as watermarking and provenance) to governance workflows and inventories—so teams across Pinterest can build compliant AI experiences efficiently and consistently.
- Partner deeply with Legal, Privacy, Policy, Security, and Engineering to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, prioritized product workstreams and scalable platform capabilities.
- Lead high-visibility, cross-functional programs that span multiple product areas, infrastructure, and engineering teams, creating alignment on tradeoffs, sequencing, and resourcing for AI governance initiatives across the company.
- Serve as a principal-level thought partner on AI governance, influencing long-range AI product strategy, identifying new risk or compliance gaps early, and advocating for the infrastructure and processes needed to keep Pinterest ahead of regulatory change.
Requirements
- Deep AI/ML or data platform product experience, including building or scaling products that rely on model training data, user data, or complex backend systems; experience in AI safety, responsible AI, or AI compliance is a strong plus.
- Proven success driving cross-company, multi-year programs at a Staff/Principal level (or equivalent), especially in ambiguous problem spaces that require both strategic frameworks and hands-on execution.
- Experience working closely with Legal, Privacy, Policy, and Security teams to operationalize regulatory or policy requirements into product features, data controls, and platform capabilities.
- Fluency with data and governance concepts—comfortable reasoning about data classification, lineage, retention, opt-outs, and enforcement, and partnering with technical teams to define robust measurement and monitoring.
- Track record of building or scaling compliance or governance tooling, such as policy engines, inventories/registries, detection or labeling systems, approval workflows, or audit and reporting capabilities.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners around a clear point of view on AI risk, compliance tradeoffs, and sequencing.
- Comfort operating in fast-changing regulatory and technical environments, with a bias toward pragmatic, principle-driven solutions that protect users and the business while enabling innovation.
- Ability to lead and operate in highly ambiguous environments and execute with urgency.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI complianceAI governancemodel trainingdata controlsdata classificationdata lineagecompliance toolingpolicy enginesaudit capabilitiesAI safety
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluence skillsstrategic frameworkshands-on executionproblem-solvingleadershipcross-functional collaborationadaptabilityurgencystakeholder alignment