Director, Marketing Technology & Innovation

Pinterest

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$192,929–$397,206 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $256k
This role $295k
$168k most similar roles pay here $422k

This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $224,225–$288,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $256k for comparable roles.

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About Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.

Pinterest currently has 82 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$337,990 across 82 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Marketing Technology & Innovation

As the Director, Marketing Technology & Innovation, you will lead a hybrid team of Technical Program Managers, AI Solutions Engineers, and third-party partners within the Marketing, Creative and Communications organization. In this player-coach role, you will own the marketing technology roadmap, overseeing the integration of CRM, MAP, CDP, DAM, and social management tools while managing vendor lifecycles and budget strategies. You will be responsible for embedding production-grade AI solutions directly into the MarTech stack to automate workflows like intake routing and brief generation. The ideal candidate possesses a technical background in API orchestration, server-side tracking, CMS ecosystems, and CI/CD practices. You must demonstrate hands-on experience implementing LLMs from providers like OpenAI or Anthropic into marketing operations while serving as an executive thought leader who translates complex technical architecture into actionable business goals for cross-functional stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Own the AI roadmap and develop production-grade AI solutions for marketing, creative, and communication workflows.
  • Lead the Platform & Tools team to manage marketing sites, tools ecosystems, and cross-functional governance processes.
  • Manage the end-to-end MarTech stack including CRM, MAP, CDP, DAM, and social management systems.
  • Oversee event-tracking infrastructure, server-side tagging, and data pipeline activation in collaboration with Data Science teams.
  • Execute the full vendor lifecycle including contract negotiations, license optimization, and budget management for marketing technology.
  • Integrate AI natively into the MarTech stack to automate project management functions and campaign optimizations.
  • Serve as an executive leader by translating business goals into technical architecture decisions for internal and external stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 10 years of technical leadership experience with Director-level scope building and integrating enterprise MarTech systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on marketing experience working directly within or alongside marketing organizations.
  • Hands-on AI implementation experience integrating LLMs into marketing stacks for automation and optimization.
  • Experience designing and deploying multi-agent AI workforces to automate operational processes like intake routing and workflow orchestration.
  • Proficiency in API integrations, web platform architecture, server-side tracking, CMS ecosystems, and modern delivery practices like CI/CD.
  • Expertise in full-stack MarTech including CRM, MAP, CDP, DAM, and social management systems.
  • Ability to communicate technical complexity to non-technical executives and manage vendor lifecycles and budgets.

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