Staff Technical Program Manager (Data Engineering)

Pinterest's Data Engineering organization as a Staff Technical Program Manager. You will lead the strategy and execution of a multi-year portfolio of data platform modernization programs, working closely with engineering leaders across Data Engineering.

Responsibilities

• You will define the portfolio's metrics, governance, and reporting mechanisms, and influence senior leadership with clear recommendations on technical tradeoffs, investment, and sequencing.
• Additionally, you will mentor TPMs and engineering DRIs, and create best practices, tools, and methodologies that scale program management across the Platforms organization.
• Own the strategy and execution of a multi-year portfolio of data platform modernization programs, including ingestion, table format migrations, workflow consolidation, and legacy system deprecation.
• Lead migrations across multiple organizations involving many producer and consumer teams, anticipating technical failure points early and resolving core technical uncertainties with engineering.
• Define the portfolio's metrics, governance, and reporting mechanisms to provide a clear view of progress, validated savings, risk, and decisions to engineering, leadership, and finance.
• A track record of influencing senior engineering and business leadership in high-visibility settings, driving consensus, and delivering difficult messages when needed
• A track record of mentoring TPMs or engineers and building mechanisms that others adopt
• Advanced understanding of large-scale data platforms — batch/streaming pipelines, table formats, storage layers, workflow orchestrators — and the ability to anticipate technical risk and influence architectural and roadmap decisions
• A track record of defining program metrics and targets, building forecasting and savings models, and using data to drive investment decisions

Requirements

• 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)
• 8+ years of TPM experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs, including strategic, multi-org programs or portfolios within large-scale data platforms, streaming systems, or data infrastructure modernization

Preferred

• Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink), open table formats (Iceberg), or large-scale storage migrations is strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience

Comfort leading through ambiguity across all levels of leadership, making high-quality decisions with incomplete information

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

USD 123,684 - 254,644