People Tech Lead

Pinterest•San Francisco, CA

8d•Remote

About The Position

Pinterest is seeking an influential and highly collaborative Lead People Tech Specialist with 7+ years of progressive HR technology experience. This role requires deep expertise in recruiting systems, Workday, and integrated People technology ecosystems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience implementing, optimizing, and supporting recruiting platforms, with a strong understanding of the entire recruiting process from requisition management to onboarding handoffs, including data and compliance considerations. Experience leading or partnering on integrations between recruiting systems and Workday is crucial. This strategic, cross-functional role involves connecting people, process, data, and technology at scale, working closely with various departments including Recruiting, People Operations, HRIS, IT, Finance, Legal, and Compliance. The position requires operating as both a strategic advisor and hands-on execution lead, simplifying complexity, mentoring others, strengthening governance, and ensuring successful adoption of People Tech solutions. As a Lead People Tech Specialist, you will shape and optimize the future of Pinterest's people technology landscape, supporting People programs and processes with strategic and scalable solutions. You will be a pivotal member and thought leader of the HR People Tech team, orchestrating complex, cross-functional projects, partnering with diverse stakeholders to identify opportunities, providing technical mentorship, and driving organizational transformation through best-in-class technology adoption and stewardship.

Requirements

Influential HR technology expert with 7+ years of progressive experience, deeply skilled in Workday and HR system integration across the talent lifecycle.
Proven experience implementing, enhancing, or supporting ATS/recruiting platforms, with a strong understanding of requisition management, candidate workflows, interview processes, offers, onboarding handoffs, recruiting compliance, and recruiter/hiring manager experience.
Demonstrated experience leading or partnering on integrations between recruiting systems and Workday, including requirements gathering, data mapping, configuration, testing, issue resolution, launch readiness, and post-go-live support.
Visionary and strategic thinker with a proven ability to connect people, process, and technology at an enterprise level.
Inspiring partner and mentor celebrated for enabling collaboration, developing others, and building trust across functions.
Exceptional communicator who simplifies the complex, influences decisions, and drives consensus among senior stakeholders.
Proactive innovator who anticipates needs, embraces change, and sets new standards for People Tech excellence.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver transformative tech solutions for highly complex, multi-stakeholder projects, with a focus on Workday and integrated People technologies.
Assess broad business needs and set strategic direction for technology solutions, balancing long-term vision with effective execution.
Lead strategy, implementation, optimization, and support for recruiting technology platforms, ensuring solutions improve recruiter productivity, candidate experience, hiring manager experience, data quality, and operational scale.
Partner closely with Recruiting and Recruiting Operations to assess current-state workflows, identify pain points, and design scalable future-state processes across requisitions, candidates, interviews, offers, and onboarding handoffs.
Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for People Tech, facilitating alignment and prioritization across teams and initiatives.
Cultivate a knowledge-sharing culture by mentoring teammates, developing advanced training resources, and enabling successful system adoption and change management.
Champion and enhance best practices across project management, security, documentation, and stakeholder engagement to ensure reliable, compliant, and high-impact outcomes.
Shape the team’s use of AI toward high-impact People Tech work by identifying and testing promising use cases through focused experiments with measurable impact goals; embed successful practices into team processes and workflows while ensuring critical evaluation, clear ownership, responsible use, and appropriate guardrails against over-reliance on AI.