Sr. Manager, Engineering, Ad Formats

Overview

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.

The Ads Format team is seeking a full stack technical leader to oversee Ads Creation and Personalization. In particular, this role will be responsible for leading and making key architectural decisions regarding the development and rollout of our next generation server-driven UI framework, helping our advertisers successfully create performant and delightful ads, and participating in key strategic technical roadmap decisions for the Ad Formats Team.

• Build our next generation server-driven UI framework to enable Ads Personalization, our Ads Creation interfaces, and the Pinterest Custom Browser.
• Manage a team of 15 multidisciplinary engineers.
• Be hands‑on, working to provide the highest impact for your team and modeling servant leadership.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of Ads experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• A history of successfully taking user‑facing features or functionality and delivering end‑to‑end projects.
• Strong knowledge of and experience implementing AI/ML technologies, mathematics, and statistics.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day‑to‑day workflow for relevant outputs.
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI‑assisted work (e.g., testing, source‑checking, data validation, peer review).
• High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over‑reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our Pin Flex page to learn more about our working model.

• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day‑to‑day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in‑person collaboration one time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices:
  San Francisco, Palo Alto.

US based applicants only

$242,402—$429,545 USD

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