Quick summary
- Work type
- On-site
- Location
- Palo Alto, CASeattle, WA
- Salary
- $193,759–$339,078 / yr
- Posted
- 4 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live today
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $189,416–$260,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $266k versus about $225k 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 69 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,631–$339,078 across 62 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking
The 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 new 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, maintaining a prioritized roadmap and backlog. Day-to-day responsibilities include coordinating changes to back-end ads delivery systems, including retrieval, ranking, pacing, budgeting, and auction bidding. You will partner with engineering, ML, data science, design, and research to deliver high-quality features. Key skills include understanding back-end systems, marketplace tradeoffs, and business metrics. You will build bidding and optimization solutions while managing dependencies and experiment designs.
What does a Product Manager earn in California?
Median $221750 from 318 postings across 58 companies.
Skills
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 to help advertisers align budgets with business needs.
- Define success metrics and acceptance criteria to track requirement completion and quality signals post-launch.
- Manage dependencies and align on experiment design with PM peers across various ads quality components.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of experience working as a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, or related role.
- Ability to review and define new products and strategies with back-end products in an ambiguous space from ideation to go-to-market.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, data, or PMM teams to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of business metrics and tradeoffs in the context of online marketplaces.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- 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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