Sr. Technical Program Manager, Growth

Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan memorable experiences. They are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives, optimize project velocity, and enhance collaboration across teams, particularly within the Pinner Notifications organization.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify and drive key strategic explorations
• Translate strategic ideas into execution plans, and be accountable to drive them to completion
• Drive complex technical decisions across multiple teams
• Be a thought leader to your XFN stakeholders by influencing and collaborating on product roadmaps
• Work cross functionally with engineering, product, design, data analytics, and product marketing to turn ambiguous opportunities into actionable outcomes
• Define new processes from the ground up to streamline collaboration between stakeholders
• Influence teams and build relationships with key stakeholders across disciplines and organizations
• Build effective and transparent communication channels to adaptively communicate schedules, priorities, status and risk to various functional stakeholders at all levels of the company
• Use AI to turn ambiguous, cross-functional inputs into crisp execution artifacts (charters, milestones, DRIs, launch readiness checklists, decision docs, exec-ready status) to keep the Notifications portfolio moving fast while maintaining quality and compliance
• Leverage AI to accelerate operating cadence and incident response (synthesize metric/experiment readouts, summarize investigations/retros, draft comms and action plans), then validate with data and stakeholders before driving decisions and follow-through

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a technical program manager, or related experience
• Entrepreneurial spirit with strong leadership, able to develop and lead a new initiative from the ground up and thrive in ambiguity
• Passion for execution and getting things done
• Solid technical background and ability to quickly understand technical designs, challenges and risks. Experience breaking down complex problems and driving decision making
• Strong analytical abilities, able to create & monitor metrics, proactively identify growth opportunities & incidents
• Strong written, verbal communication skills and comfort in communicating nuanced, and often technical, concepts to internal stakeholders or external partners
• Ability to influence teams & drive alignment among multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in creating and driving efficient processes at scale
• Experience using AI tools to improve TPM throughput and clarity at scale (multi-team programs, many stakeholders), including dependency/risk identification, structured tradeoff framing, and high-signal stakeholder communications
• Demonstrated judgment using AI in high-stakes + fast-moving environments (growth regressions, incidents, policy/compliance escalations) where outputs must be verified, and where you can influence partners to adopt repeatable, AI-enabled mechanisms (templates, playbooks, process hygiene)
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience