Staff Product Manager, Content-to-Discovery Infrastructure

Pinterest

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CASeattle, WACA
Salary
$164,695–$339,078 / yr
Posted
20 days ago
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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 76 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Product Manager, Content-to-Discovery Infrastructure

The Staff Product Manager, Content-to-Discovery Infrastructure joins the Content-to-Discovery Platform team to manage the end-to-end flywheel that transforms raw content into discoverable supply. This role involves setting a multi-year strategy and owning the roadmap for content acquisition, scraping, catalog onboarding, and metadata enrichment. Key responsibilities include driving the freshness lifecycle, owning indexing for Shopping and Search, and managing retrieval and serving systems while monitoring latency and performance signals. The successful candidate will use technical judgment to navigate tradeoffs in ingestion and indexing architecture. Required skills include experience with commerce-supply platforms, data enrichment pipelines, and low-latency retrieval systems. The role solves the technical challenge of ensuring high-quality, relevant, and fresh content is accurately indexed and reliably served across various markets and categories.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $222500 from 327 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Set and drive a multi-year strategy for the end-to-end content-to-discovery flywheel.
  • Own the roadmap for infrastructure supporting content scraping and catalog onboarding.
  • Drive the extraction, processing, metadata enrichment, and freshness lifecycle for catalog data.
  • Own the indexing processes across the Shopping and Search platforms.
  • Manage retrieval and serving systems while optimizing for latency, performance, and inventory.
  • Define and monitor metrics for data freshness and reliability to prioritize investments.
  • Act as the platform spokesperson and mentor peer product managers.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in product management or technical leadership.
  • Record of building and launching content, catalog, or commerce-supply platforms and infrastructure at scale.
  • Direct experience owning content/catalog acquisition, data enrichment, search/shopping indexing, or low-latency retrieval/serving systems.
  • Track record of improving data quality, freshness, or relevance metrics across large, multi-stage pipelines.
  • Strong technical judgment to discuss tradeoffs across ingestion, indexing, and serving architecture with engineers.
  • Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems.
  • Analytical and strategic mindset with the ability to define metrics and make high-accountability decisions.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degrees (preferred).

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