Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Signals
Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Salary
- $163,639–$336,903 / yr
- Posted
- 3 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $177,000–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $250k versus about $200k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 53 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $169,886–$339,078 across 46 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Signals
As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Signals, you will lead company-level programs essential to the platform's transformation into a shopping and inspiration destination. You will drive innovation across offsite signals, content understanding, and relevance while managing complex technical execution and cross-organizational roadmaps. The role involves influencing at the VP level, collaborating with AI Research teams, and integrating advanced models like LLMs, VLMs, and recommender systems into core experiences. You will utilize GenAI as a primary operating model to automate high-toil workflows, perform data analysis, and prototype tools for signal quality monitoring. Key requirements include expertise in search, recommendation systems, ML/AI, and large-scale data integration. You must navigate technical, business, and regulatory considerations while managing data acquisition from external partners to solve complex problems in search and personalization.
What does a Technical Program Manager earn in California?
Median $208000 from 89 postings across 21 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead company-level programs for offsite signals, content understanding, and relevance to drive search and personalization goals.
- Develop and manage the company-wide roadmap for signals while aligning technical capabilities with business objectives.
- Serve as the primary liaison with AI Research teams to integrate LLMs, VLMs, and recommender systems into core products.
- Influence executive leadership by evangelizing program progress and proposing informed trade-offs across the organization.
- Author best practices and methodologies for data acquisition, signal management, and model evaluation.
- Implement AI-first workflows using GenAI to automate project artifacts like roadmaps, status reports, and risk tracking.
- Prototype AI-powered tools to improve signal quality monitoring and decision-making processes.
- Ensure all AI-assisted workflows comply with safety, privacy, and regulatory requirements for sensitive data handling.
What we're looking for
- BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (10+ years in technical or analytical roles with significant program leadership).
- Demonstrated ability to lead transformational, company-level programs that impact multiple organizational OKRs.
- Deep technical expertise in search, recommendation systems, ML/AI, and large-scale data integration.
- Proven ability to use GenAI for planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications at scale.
- Experience with "safety-by-design" AI fluency including risk assessment, sensitive data handling, and model validation.
- Proven track record of influencing at the VP/staff level and driving consensus across cross-functional environments.
- Experience with legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance in data-driven environments.
- Experience with external data partners, internationalization, or search products (preferred); experience with offsite signals (preferred).
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