Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance

Pinterest

Remote Hybrid

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$145,747–$300,067 / yr
Posted
15 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $223k
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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $163,200–$224,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $223k versus about $194k 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 41 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $177,185–$339,078 across 41 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance

As a Technical Program Manager on Pinterest’s Search team, you will lead high-impact programs and drive the execution of search, relevance, and merchant machine learning initiatives. You’ll establish strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, manage multiple work streams, and leverage data insights to inform product strategy and OKR requirements. Your day-to-day involves analyzing shopping experiences, identifying gaps in distribution strategies, and operationalizing processes to enhance search quality. With a strong background in technical breadth and judgment, you will use AI-first execution methods to accelerate planning and program operations, ensuring alignment with Pinterest’s safety-by-design principles for AI governance. This role requires experience with search products at a granular level and the ability to navigate ambiguity while delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll do

  • Establish and manage relationships with key partners across Search teams for high impact programs.
  • Define and drive ML/AI programs in Search and Relevance, ensuring scope, risks are identified, and successful execution.
  • Lead day-to-day program management of multiple work streams including product strategy, technical design, and experimentation.
  • Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences with Data Science to inform strategic decisions.
  • Identify gaps in search and shopping strategies and operationalize processes to address these gaps.
  • Own headcount and roadmap planning for a large engineering organization within the Search team.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in a technical or analytical role with a BS in a technical discipline.
  • Strong technical breadth and judgment to identify risks and tradeoffs quickly.
  • Experience working with search products at a detailed level.
  • AI-first mindset: ability to use GenAI for planning, operations, and communications.
  • Exceptional relationship-building skills and organizational awareness.
  • Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment.
  • Workflow design expertise: turning repeatable program work into low-toil mechanisms.

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