Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance

At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and as a Technical Program Manager on the Search team, you'll play a crucial role in this mission. You’ll be a thought leader with Product and Engineering on crafting a seamless search and shopping experience for Pinners. Questions you’ll have to tackle with the team include: 1/ How might we better understand when a Pinner has commercial intent and change our search strategy accordingly? 2/ How do we enable new merchants to succeed on Pinterest as a platform while continuing to help our successful merchants become more successful? 3/ What signals and content can we acquire and build to build a better search and shopping experience?

What you'll do:

• Establish and own relationships with key partners across Search teams as their strategic and execution partner for delivering high impact programs
• Define and drive Search, Relevance, and Merchant ML/AI programs based on current and emerging needs, ensuring scope, responsibilities, and ownership are well-established, risks are proactively identified and mitigated and that programs are executed and landed successfully
• Lead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the product process, including product strategy, technical design, and experimentation
• Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences in partnership with Data Science; leverage these insights to lead strategy steering committees with crossfunctional VPs.
• Build a subject-matter-expertise on query understanding and search engines.
• Drive product, business, and OKR requirements while also streamlining engineering efforts and cost.
• Identify gaps in shopping and search distribution strategy (i.e. signals, content, etc.) and operationalize processes to close those gaps.

 What we're looking for:

• BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (7+ years in a technical or analytical role)
• Strong technical breadth and judgment - ability to quickly ramp up and go deep on a range of technologies, ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs
• Comfort with a fast-changing environment and ability to manage ambiguity
• Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions
• Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability
• Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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