Senior Technical Program Manager (Ads Delivery Infrastructure)

Pinterest's Ads Delivery Infrastructure team as a Senior Technical Program Manager. In this role, you will lead programs that scale Pinterest's Shopping and Ads catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems.

Responsibilities

• You will drive cross-team execution on infrastructure modernization initiatives, build and maintain program dashboards, and partner with engineering on reliability and incident-response initiatives.
• You will also communicate technical tradeoffs and program status to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead or support programs that scale Pinterest's Shopping and Ads catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems to handle billions of items.
• Drive cross-team execution on infrastructure modernization initiatives, including migrations to next-generation compute and storage platforms.
• Build and maintain program dashboards and reporting that give engineering and business stakeholders a clear, current view of progress, risk, and decisions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience building dashboards, interpreting data, and using insights to drive decisions

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of TPM/Product Ownership experience, a solid understanding of large-scale serving, indexing, or retrieval systems, and strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls
• Solid understanding of the principles behind large-scale serving, indexing, or retrieval systems, and the tradeoffs involved in scaling them
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering with senior engineering and business stakeholders in high-visibility settings
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities across a fast-moving, multi-workstream roadmap
• 5+ years of TPM/Product Ownership experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally within large-scale distributed systems, search/retrieval, or ads/monetization infrastructure
• Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation: experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision-making by using GenAI (e.g., strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis and leveraging agents where appropriate)

Preferred

• Experience with ads, monetization, or data infrastructure is a plus; willingness to learn and grow across domains is essential

USD 123,684 - 254,644