Talent & Engagement Manager developing global talent management initiatives at R1 India. Collaborating with HR and business stakeholders to drive engagement and organizational development strategies.
About the role
- Director of Technical Program Management at Pinterest overseeing cross-organizational large-scope programs. Leading the Pinner Journeys team and collaborating on strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead an impactful team of senior TPMs and ICs responsible for cross-org, large-scope programs that connect Core, M10n, and Platforms.
- Set a clear strategy and vision for the Pinner Journeys & Belonging function, providing thought leadership and influencing the business and potential regulatory issues that might impact Pinterest.
- Be accountable for stitching together user journeys (Personalization, Search, Assistant, etc.) to land as coherent, end-to-end experiences, with top line metrics as the primary north-star metric for journey quality.
- Drive alignment of resource planning across multiple organizational units with strategic business objectives, engaging with executive leadership to prioritize resource needs.
- Ensure that qualified successors are identified for key functional roles, creating a culture that emphasizes constructive feedback, ongoing learning, and equitable development across the team.
- Lead the emerging UX Quality agenda across Pinner Journeys, integrating accessibility, inclusive product, and wellbeing into Core journeys as P0 responsibilities.
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a technical program manager, or related experience, leading multiple company-level programs that impact multiple company OKRs.
- 2-5+ years of management experience, with a proven ability to lead an impactful team of senior managers and ICs.
- A leader who navigates uncertain situations, provides direction and frameworks to the function, and conveys stability in evolving or uncertain times.
- Expertise in building tracking mechanisms to create an environment of accountability for the working team's progression.
- Strong ability to move the function forward through a mature decision-making process, willingly making tough trade-offs on behalf of the organization.
- A leader who fosters a culture that supports people taking well-reasoned risks in service of creating value for Pinners.
- Proven strength in engaging with executive leadership to provide strategic guidance, with polished communication skills and thought leadership.
- Demonstrated experience as a power user and extender of an A/B testing / experimentation platform (e.g., internal or external tools, homegrown experiment frameworks, etc.). This includes shaping schemas and workflows, defining launch/guardrail standards, and building automation on top of the platform (e.g., Python/SQL scripts, dashboards, anomaly/holdout reports, and launch-review summaries) so it becomes the single source of truth for “what shipped, what moved the metrics, and why.
- AI-first execution mindset: demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications—starting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions.
- Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation: experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision-making by using GenAI (e.g., strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis and leveraging agents where appropriate).
- Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.
- BS in Engineering or CS or equivalent work experience.
Benefits
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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