Staff Technical Program Manager, Ads Measurement
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Responsibilities
- Drive clarity through ambiguity in a complex technical domain: Convert vague problem statements into crisp program charters, decision points, and executable roadmaps; proactively identify gaps (requirements, ownership, resourcing, data readiness) and close them.
- Execute at both breadth and depth. At breadth by understanding the big picture, and at depth by being comfortable driving nitty gritty details with multiple teams
- Operate at Staff (IC16) scope and leadership altitude: Own the success of a strategic, complex program spanning multiple orgs; manage ambiguity across leadership levels; communicate program state, risks, and proposals (including tradeoffs) clearly to senior audiences (VP/Estaff/PLT as needed).
- Build durable program mechanisms and best practices: Create repeatable operating rhythms (intake, prioritization, RAID, decision logs, launch criteria, post-launch learning loops), and scale execution through others (including other T/PgMs and functional leaders).
- Prototype solutions to augment decisions through data (e.g. dashboards, data analysis) or simplify processes (e.g. process and workflow helpers, or internal tools) using AI coding assistants ("vibe coding").
- Follow Pinterest AI guidance for risk, governance, and safety-by-design: appropriately handle sensitive data, validate AI-generated outputs, document assumptions/limits, and ensure AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy/compliance expectations before broad adoption.
- What's great/unique about this job?
- High-leverage business impact: Ads Measurement is foundational to advertiser trust, budget allocation, and Monetization growth; your programs directly influence how we prove value and improve performance.
- Deep technical + product surface area: You'll sit at the intersection of experimentation methodology, measurement accuracy, platform integrations, privacy/safety constraints, and product strategy-requiring s
Additional Information
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest Technical Program Managers deliver critical & strategic outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries. This role is within the Ads Measurement org, which is responsible for proving the value of Advertising at Pinterest. You will be driving development of new solutions, scaling of existing solutions, solving complex engineering problems, and driving ambiguous programs from inception to launch. Example programs: building new measurement products, optimizing delivery based on measurement source of truth, and driving new integrations.
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