Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and innovation, and they are seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead cross-engineering projects. This role involves translating strategic priorities into execution plans, influencing roadmaps, and ensuring successful program outcomes through effective communication and process management.
Responsibilities
- Translate Strategy into Execution — Convert strategic platform priorities into structured, milestone-driven execution plans; operating at both breadth (big picture vision) and depth (driving granular details with engineering teams) to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Shape Planning & Influence Roadmaps — Serve as a thought leader to cross-functional stakeholders during annual and quarterly planning cycles; influencing product and platform roadmap decisions with data-informed perspectives and a deep understanding of organizational priorities and technical tradeoffs
- Build Scalable Processes & Best Practices — Define, institutionalize, and continuously improve program management processes, frameworks, and tooling; elevating organizational execution capability and enabling teams to operate with greater agility, consistency, and efficiency at scale
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment & Communication — Build transparent, adaptive communication channels across Engineering, Capacity Eng, Production Eng, Product, Security, and Legal; ensuring stakeholders at all levels; from ICs to executives, have timely, accurate visibility into priorities, status, risks, and decisions
- Own Program Outcomes End-to-End — Take full accountability for the success of high-impact programs, ensuring measurable delivery through rigorous planning, proactive risk mitigation, and relentless follow-through; representing program interests at the highest levels of the organization
Skills
- 8+ years of TPM or related experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proven track record of leading and delivering complex migrations, multi-year initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams and organizations
- Working understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure and data systems or delivery platforms
- Knowledge of compute platforms across the industry, and/or optimization of AWS resources, DevOps, and systems engineering principles
- Strong ability to analyze organizational context, anticipate future scenarios, and shape program roadmaps aligned to company-level strategy and OKRs
- Demonstrated success influencing senior and executive leadership
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills with a track record of using data, innovative approaches, and structured frameworks to navigate complexity
- Demonstrated experience creating and driving efficient, scalable processes and best practices
- Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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