Senior Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking

Pinterest

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Work type
On-site
Location
Palo Alto, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$230,280–$402,990 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 68 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking

The Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking joins the Ads Quality team to optimize the ads system for Pinner, Advertiser, and Pinterest value. This role involves owning the vision for capabilities that match the right ad to the right Pinner at the right time. You will translate problem statements into business and technical requirements through BRDs and PRDs, including epics and user stories. Day-to-day responsibilities include maintaining a prioritized roadmap, coordinating changes to back-end ads delivery systems like retrieval, ranking, pacing, and auction bidding, and partnering with engineering, ML, data science, and design teams. You must understand marketplace tradeoffs, business metrics, and the interaction effects of content. The role requires experience with back-end products, marketplace experiments, and ads delivery systems to solve complex marketplace optimization problems.

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What you'll do

  • Translate problem statements into clear business and technical requirements through BRDs and PRDs.
  • Create and maintain a prioritized roadmap and requirements backlog from discovery through general availability.
  • Coordinate changes to back-end ads delivery systems including retrieval, ranking, bidding, and quality guardrails.
  • Partner with engineering, ML, and data science teams to deliver high-quality features and define APIs.
  • Build features for ads bidding and optimization solutions that align advertiser budgets with business needs.
  • Define success metrics and acceptance criteria to track requirement completion and quality signals post-launch.
  • Facilitate roadmap reviews and proactively surface risks, decisions, and changes to shared artifacts.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 8 years of experience as a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, or related role.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to define new products and strategies in ambiguous spaces and execute from ideation to go-to-market.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Engineering, data, and PMM teams to anticipate and meet stakeholder needs.
  • Deep understanding of business metrics and tradeoffs within the context of online marketplaces.
  • Experience with Ads Marketplace and/or Ads Formats (preferred).
  • Direct experience with and fundamental understanding of ads delivery systems (preferred).
  • Experience designing, running, or analyzing marketplace experiments (preferred).

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