Technical Program Manager II, Shopping Platforms

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Remote
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Remote
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$103,965–$214,044 / yr
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1 day ago
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Below market

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This role $159k
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This role pays less than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $174,699–$220,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $159k versus about $197k for comparable roles.

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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.

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TL;DR · Technical Program Manager II, Shopping Platforms

As a Technical Program Manager II, Shopping Platforms, you will join the Shopping & Delivery Infrastructure team to manage a portfolio of shopping catalog and indexing programs. You will drive project timelines, manage cross-team dependencies across retrieval and serving systems, and maintain program dashboards for stakeholders. Your daily work involves running team cadences like standups and planning while utilizing GenAI as a primary operating model to automate high-toil workflows, synthesize risks, and prototype tools via vibe coding. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, including streaming pipelines and batch processing, alongside skills in data analysis and reporting. You will navigate the technical challenges of building a unified, low-latency shopping and delivery stack. Required competencies include strong written communication, AI fluency regarding safety-by-design governance, and experience with infrastructure or data-adjacent environments.

What does a Technical Program Manager earn?

Median $190350 from 211 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive a portfolio of shopping catalog and indexing programs while managing engineering owners and timelines.
  • Manage daily team operations including standups, planning sessions, decision tracking, and documentation.
  • Build and maintain program dashboards to provide stakeholders with clear views on progress and risks.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies across catalog, indexing, retrieval, serving, and ads quality teams.
  • Integrate GenAI into workflows to automate high-toil tasks like intake triage and status synthesis.
  • Prototype tools and scripts using AI coding assistants to simplify processes and enhance data-driven decisions.
  • Ensure all AI-assisted workflows comply with corporate risk, governance, and safety-by-design policies.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 2–4 years of TPM experience driving technical programs to completion in infrastructure, platform, or data-adjacent environments.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts including services, streaming pipelines, and batch vs real-time processing.
  • Strong execution skills with a track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams and cross-team dependencies.
  • Proficiency in building dashboards, tracking metrics, and communicating status updates to stakeholders.
  • Experience with ads, monetization, streaming systems (Flink/Kafka), or financial-controls processes (preferred).
  • Ability to use GenAI for workflow automation, data analysis, and "vibe coding" to simplify processes.
  • Safety-by-design AI fluency including risk assessment, data handling, and validating AI-generated outputs.

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