Staff Product Manager, AI Safety

Pinterest

Remote Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$164,695–$339,078 / yr
Posted
14 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $215k
This role $252k
$144k most similar roles pay here $360k

This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $185,375–$245,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $252k versus about $215k 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 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$332,012 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Product Manager, AI Safety

As a Staff Product Manager on Pinterest’s GenAI Safety team within Trust & Safety, you will define and drive the product strategy for ensuring AI-powered systems are safe, fair, and trustworthy. Your daily responsibilities include building proactive safety frameworks that scale with growing AI capabilities, leading threat modeling and red-teaming exercises to identify risks before they materialize, and translating complex policy goals into measurable product requirements. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, data science, design, and legal teams to ship AI safety solutions globally while ensuring cultural sensitivity and user well-being. The role requires 7+ years of experience in GenAI/ML, trust & safety, or responsible AI, along with strong fluency in AI/ML concepts like generative models and multi-modal AI, and proficiency in engaging with research and mapping threat models.

What you'll do

  • Own and drive the product roadmap for GenAI safety across Pinterest's AI-powered surfaces.
  • Lead proactive identification of risks and adversarial attack vectors in AI systems.
  • Translate nuanced content guidelines into precise product requirements and model guardrails.
  • Define and track quantitative safety metrics to ensure AI systems meet safety standards at scale.
  • Develop and maintain AI safety incident runbooks and lead rapid triage and remediation efforts.
  • Stay ahead of emerging risks in the rapidly evolving AI landscape and build extensible safety infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of product management experience in GenAI/ML, trust & safety, or responsible AI.
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts including generative models and multi-modal systems.
  • Experience with AI ethics frameworks and regulatory landscapes like NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguous problem spaces with a bias for action.
  • Proficiency in threat modeling, risk validation, and translating insights into clear product strategies.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical and ethical trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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