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Pinterest · 2 days ago

Sr. TPM Manager - Core, Ads, Quality, Client Foundations

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$164K/yr - $337K/yr

10+ years exp

Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and planning for memorable experiences. They are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the Core, Ads, Quality, and Client Foundations program portfolio, driving modernization and consolidation initiatives while managing a small team of TPMs.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Technical Program ManagementProgram strategy developmentTechnical fluencyCross-team collaborationPeople leadershipModernization initiativesExecutive communicationPerformance managementCoachingBachelor’s degree

Required

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

10+ years of experience as a technical program manager

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience