Director TPM, InfraGov

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Pinterest’s Infrastructure Governance (Infra Gov) team ensures our infrastructure is cost-efficient and aligned to company priorities. This Director of Technical Program Management role owns the infrastructure budget operating system—the strategy, mechanisms, and executive partnerships that enable Pinterest to fund innovation while executing to budget and margin targets. You will lead a team of TPMs who run key governance programs spanning spend control, evergreen efficiency, capacity management, and cloud vendor performance, partnering closely with senior leaders across Finance, Engineering, and Product.

Success requires a leader who can build durable decision frameworks, create transparency through metrics and tooling, and drive balanced trade-offs across a complex portfolio. This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of technology strategy and business outcomes, with direct impact on how Pinterest scales.

• Partner with the VP of Infrastructure to set the multi-year Infra Gov strategy and roadmap, aligning governance priorities to company goals and engineering/product plans.
• Partner with EPD TPM leadership to own annual and quarterly infrastructure budget planning and in-year re-forecasting; establish guardrails, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Lead through a team of TPMs to deliver cross-org programs across spend control, efficiency, capacity management, and vendor management.
• Build executive partnership with Finance, Engineering, and Product to drive high-quality, data-informed trade-offs (innovation headroom vs. cost, risk, and capacity).
• Create governance mechanisms that scale: dashboards, source-of-truth reporting, business reviews, and accountability rhythms that drive consistent execution.
• Sponsor cloud vendor strategy and performance management in partnership with Procurement/Finance/Engineering, including renewal readiness and KPI oversight.
• Set the Infra Gov TPM team strategy; hire, coach, and retain diverse leaders; set clear expectations and program craft standards; deliver calibrated feedback; create growth plans, rotations, and succession coverage across spend, efficiency, capacity, and vendor domains.

• Proven director-level leadership running large, cross-org technical portfolios through senior TPMs/managers.
• Deep familiarity with cloud/infrastructure (AWS or similar), including capacity, cost drivers, and reliability trade-offs.
• Strong business/financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, spend controls, and KPI-based performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to build durable operating mechanisms…