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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads Delivery Infrastructure - **Company:** Pinterest - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $123,684.0 - $254,644.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Workflow Management Systems, Data Processing, Indexer, Information Technology - **Published:** September 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d60e14f2ebfdccfd ## About the Role * 5+ years of TPM/Product Ownership experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs, ideally within large-scale distributed systems, search/retrieval, or ads/monetization infrastructure. * Solid understanding of the principles behind large-scale serving, indexing, or retrieval systems, and the tradeoffs involved in scaling them. * Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience building dashboards, interpreting data, and using insights to drive decisions. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering with senior engineering and business stakeholders in high-visibility settings. * Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities across a fast-moving, multi-workstream roadmap. * Experience with ads, monetization, or data infrastructure is a plus; willingness to learn and grow across domains is essential. * 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. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience. ## Description * Lead or support programs that scale Pinterest's Shopping and Ads catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems to handle billions of items, partnering with engineering leads across catalog, search infrastructure, and retrieval. * Drive cross-team execution on infrastructure modernization initiatives, including migrations to next-generation compute and storage platforms, managing timeline, dependency, and risk across service owners. * Build and maintain program dashboards and reporting that give engineering and business stakeholders a clear, current view of progress, risk, and decisions. * Partner with engineering on reliability and incident-response initiatives for revenue-critical serving systems. * Communicate technical tradeoffs and program status clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from individual engineers to senior leadership. * 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"). * 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., * We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. 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