Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance

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At Pinterest our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love and as a Technical Program Manager on the Search team youll play a crucial role in this mission. Youll be a thought leader with Product and Engineering on crafting a seamless search and shopping experience for Pinners. Questions youll have to tackle with the team include: 1/ How might we better understand when a Pinner has commercial intent and change our search strategy accordingly 2/ How do we enable new merchants to succeed on Pinterest as a platform while continuing to help our successful merchants become more successful 3/ What signals and content can we acquire and build to build a better search and shopping experience 4/ How do we measure Search quality and relevance on the platform

What youll do:

• Establish and own relationships with key partners across Search teams as their strategic and execution partner for delivering high impact programs.
• Define and drive Search Relevance and Merchant ML/AI programs based on current and emerging needs ensuring scope responsibilities and ownership are well-established risks are proactively identified and mitigated and that programs are executed and landed successfully.
• Lead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the product process including product strategy technical design and experimentation.
• Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences in partnership with Data Science; leverage these insights to lead strategy steering committees with cross-functional VPs.
• Build a subject-matter-expertise on query understanding and search engines.
• Drive product business and OKR requirements while also streamlining engineering efforts and cost.
• Identify gaps in shopping and search distribution strategy (i.e. signals content etc.) and operationalize processes to close those gaps.
• Own and scale the headcount and roadmap planning process for a large engineering org.
• Drive High-Ambiguity strategic bets: Act as the core delivery powerhouse for high-impact fast-moving experiments. Translate ambitious executive visions into highly executable phased project plans.
• Manage the overarching portfolio of programs within the org and mentor junior TPMs to optimize resource allocation and uplevel team performance.
• Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM executionproducing 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 were looking for:

• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (7 years in a technical or analytical role).
• Strong technical breadth and judgment - ability to quickly ramp up and go deep on a range of technologies ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs.
• Comfort with a fast-changing environment and ability to manage ambiguity.
• Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills organizational awareness and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability.
• Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable.
• AI-first execution mindset: demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning program operations and stakeholder communicationsstarting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate refine and drive decisions.
• 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.

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.

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