About the Role
Pinterest is seeking a Senior Recruiter to shape and grow its global business teams. This role involves leading full-cycle recruiting, partnering with hiring leaders, and creating exceptional candidate experiences. The ideal candidate will bring market insight, strong judgment, creativity, and care to build high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for roles across critical functions in the Global Business Organization, including product marketing, sales strategy & operations, performance solutions, measurement, content, data analysis, and project management.
- Occasionally support recruiting across other teams such as Marketing, Sales, or other Business functions.
- Establish aligned search strategies with hiring managers, including intake, candidate profile calibration, process design, and closing plans.
- Build and drive sourcing strategies through proactive outreach, pipeline development, and targeted search.
- Deliver talent market insights, including market mapping, peer talent analysis, and pipeline trends, to inform hiring decisions.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including HR, compensation, finance, and legal to advance searches and support offer development.
- Maintain strong pipeline health and recruiting operations through accurate data, clear forecasting, and timely updates.
- Lead offer and close strategy, including compensation alignment, candidate motivation, negotiation, and engagement through acceptance.
- Utilize AI to accelerate research, sourcing strategy development, outreach drafting, and workflow efficiency, ensuring quality and accuracy through judgment and verification.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
- Strength in passive candidate engagement, pipeline building, and delivering inclusive, candidate-first experiences.
- Skill in search strategy, talent market mapping, and using data to guide decisions and communicate tradeoffs.
- Proven ability to work with hiring managers and cross-functional partners to drive alignment, navigate ambiguity, and move decisions forward.
- Experience recruiting for business and sales support functions, including operations, project/program management, measurement, performance solutions, data/analytics, content, and corporate teams; able to ramp quickly in new functional areas.
- Experience managing multiple searches and priorities in a fast-paced environment with strong organization and follow-through.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day recruiting work.
- Strong track record of reviewing and validating AI-assisted work, while protecting sensitive information and remaining accountable for final decisions and outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Business, Human Resources or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Eligible candidates will need to be in a commutable distance from a Pinterest Office or People Team Hub in the following locations (San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz, CA, San Diego, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY (includes New Jersey & Connecticut tri-state area) Seattle, WA, Washington DC, Atlanta, GA, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, Houston, TX Denver, CO, Charlotte, NC, Portland, OR, Miami / Fort Lauderdale, FL).
- US based applicants only.
Skills
- Passive candidate engagement
- Pipeline building
- Inclusive, candidate-first experiences
- Search strategy
- Talent market mapping
- Data-driven decision making
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Ambiguity navigation
- Business and sales support recruiting
- Organizational skills
- Follow-through
- AI utilization in recruiting
- AI-assisted work validation
- Information protection
- Accountability
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Santa Cruz, CA
- San Diego, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Chicago, IL
- New York, NY
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Seattle, WA
- Washington DC
- Atlanta, GA
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
- Houston, TX
- Denver, CO
- Charlotte, NC
- Portland, OR
- Miami / Fort Lauderdale, FL
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources or related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $98,561—$202,918 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
- We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter to help shape and grow Pinterest’s global business teams.
Equal Opportunity
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
