Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads

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The Ads Performance organization is responsible for maximizing advertiser performance and revenue outcomes through Pinterest’s Ads Delivery and Ads Modeling systems. This team drives high‑impact, cross‑functional work that improves the efficiency, relevance, and scalability of Pinterest’s ads stack, helping advertisers achieve measurable results while supporting strong user experiences.

• Own end-to-end program delivery for complex Ads Performance initiatives, driving planning, execution, and launch across multiple teams with clear goals, milestones, and success metrics aligned to monetization outcomes and company OKRs.
• Turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear program charters, roadmaps, and decision points, while proactively identifying and resolving gaps in ownership, requirements, resourcing, and data readiness.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Sales, Business Development, Research, and Product Marketing to align stakeholders and turn opportunities into actionable outcomes.
• Drive development of new performance capabilities across ads delivery and modeling, including initiatives related to bidding, ranking, optimization, and other strategies that improve ROI and user experience.
• Help scale existing systems to support new surfaces, formats, markets, and use cases while maintaining reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Influence technical direction and tradeoff decisions by facilitating alignment on architecture, surfacing risks and uncertainties early, and helping teams navigate decisions across accuracy, latency, experimentation rigor, privacy, and measurement needs.
• Build durable program mechanisms and best practices, including intake, prioritization, RAID tracking, decision logs, launch criteria, and post‑launch learning loops.
• Communicate program state, risks, and recommendations clearly to cross‑functional stakeholders and leadership, and proactively elevate when broader alignment or decisions are needed.
• Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM execution—producing AI‑assisted first drafts of core program artifacts, modernizing high‑toil workflows into AI‑first mechanisms (e.g., intake triage, status synthesis, action/decision extraction, risk & dependency tracking), and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, decision/trade‑offs, and escalation paths.
• 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”).
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