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About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering (M17) to lead a critical function at the intersection of AI foundations, proactive experiences, and assistant product experiences. This leader will be responsible for building and scaling teams, technical direction, and execution to power the next generation of AI-driven experiences across Pinterest. This role is central to evolving Pinterest toward more personalized, proactive, and assistive experiences for Pinners, leading teams across various AI domains to better understand user intent and deliver more useful, contextual, and inspiring experiences.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the organizational and technical strategy for AI Foundations and Proactive Experiences, spanning areas such as LLM-powered systems, agentic workflows, orchestration, and agentic user experiences.
Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization composed of senior engineers and tech leads, creating clarity, velocity, and strong execution across multiple workstreams.
Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Data Science to shape the roadmap for proactive and assistive Pinterest experiences, translating ambitious product bets into scalable technical investments and execution plans.
Lead the development of foundational AI capabilities that enable context-aware, personalized, and anticipatory experiences, including model integration, user understanding, orchestration, safety, and evaluation frameworks.
Drive execution on a multi-year roadmap for building reusable AI capabilities that can power experiences across surfaces and use cases, improving consistency, quality, and leverage across Pinterest’s product ecosystem.
Raise the bar on engineering excellence across the org, including system reliability, experimentation rigor, privacy, security, operational health, and cost efficiency.
Establish strong operating mechanisms for technical direction and delivery, including planning, design reviews, roadmap management, goal setting, and cross-team dependency management.
Hire, retain, and grow exceptional talent, while building a healthy and ambitious engineering culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, craftsmanship, and user impact.
Coach managers and senior ICs to increase their scope and effectiveness, and build the leadership bench needed to scale the organization over time.
Partner with senior engineering and company leadership to align investments, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure the organization is focused on the highest-leverage opportunities for Pinterest’s AI future.
Report into Pinterest Engineering leadership and lead a strategically important organization working across AI foundations and proactive user experiences.
Split time across organizational leadership, technical direction, talent development, and cross-functional execution, ensuring both strong near-term delivery and long-term capability building.
Work closely with partner teams across product and platform engineering to create leverage, reduce fragmentation, and accelerate Pinterest’s AI roadmap.
Be measured on team health and effectiveness, technical and product outcomes, organizational scale, leadership development, and durable platform impact.

Requirements

Significant experience leading engineering teams in AI/ML, personalization, intelligent product experiences, platform engineering, or consumer-facing AI systems at scale.
Proven success as a senior engineering leader, with experience managing managers and senior technical leaders across complex, cross-functional problem spaces.
Strong track record of driving strategy and execution for large-scale, technically complex organizations, especially in areas involving AI systems, platform capabilities, personalization, or generative AI.
Experience building or leading teams working on one or more of the following: Foundation model integration and LLM-powered systems, Personalization and user understanding, Agentic systems and orchestration, Proactive or assistive product experiences, Generative AI infrastructure, tooling, or evaluation.
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and convert early-stage opportunities into clear roadmaps, team structures, and measurable outcomes.
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to balance long-term platform investments against near-term user and company impact.
Excellent partnership skills and a history of working effectively with PM, Design, Data Science, Research, and peer engineering leaders.
Strong technical depth and credibility; able to engage deeply on architecture, platform design, model tradeoffs, and execution risks without needing to be the primary hands-on builder.
Passion for building strong teams and developing leaders, with a track record of creating inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in consumer products at global scale, especially in personalization, creator tools, assistants, content understanding, or intelligent recommendation experiences.
Experience leading teams building AI assistants, proactive recommendation systems, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered consumer experiences.
Experience scaling organizations through periods of change and transitions, such as adopting foundation models, modernizing AI infrastructure, or building shared AI capabilities across multiple product areas.

Skills

AI/ML
Personalization
Intelligent product experiences
Platform engineering
Consumer-facing AI systems
LLM-powered systems
Agentic systems
Orchestration
Generative AI
System reliability
Experimentation rigor
Privacy
Security
Operational health
Cost efficiency
Technical direction
Talent development
Cross-functional execution
AI foundations
Proactive experiences
Assistant product experiences

Location

Seattle
Palo Alto
San Francisco

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Manager
Senior engineering leader
Managing managers

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

$208,592—$429,545 USD

Benefits

Eligible for 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.
US based applicants only

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 characteristic (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.