Sr. Product Manager, Ads Quality Delivery

Pinterest•Seattle, WA

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Ads Quality team helps Pinners move from inspiration to action by showing the right ad at the right time. The team optimizes the ads system for Pinner, advertiser, and Pinterest value. This role owns product capabilities that improve ad matching and delivery, with launches that can measurably affect Pinners and advertisers and visibly change the app experience. The ideal candidate combines a strong focus on Pinner experience with an understanding of back-end systems, cross-functional product development, the effects of introducing different content onto a page, and tradeoffs in an ads marketplace. The position works across engineering, machine learning, data science and analytics, design, research, product marketing, sales, and policy and integrity teams. It can be based anywhere in the country, with in-office collaboration required 1–2 times per quarter. Relocation assistance is not available.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience as a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, or in a related role.
Strong evidence of the ability to assess and define new products and strategies for back-end products in ambiguous spaces and execute from ideation and roadmaps through go-to-market.
Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, data, or product marketing teams.
Ability to empathize with, anticipate the needs of, and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
Deep understanding of business metrics and tradeoffs in online marketplaces.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ads Marketplace and/or Ads Formats.
Direct experience with and fundamental understanding of ads delivery systems.
Experience designing, running, or analyzing marketplace experiments.

Responsibilities

Own a vision for new and existing capabilities that match the right ad to the right Pinner at the right time.
Translate problem statements into clear business and technical requirements using business requirements documents and product requirements documents, including epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Create and maintain a prioritized roadmap and requirements backlog, track requirements from discovery through general availability, and ensure traceability between business goals and shipped features.
Plan and deliver a sequenced roadmap, aligning with partner teams on architecture, guardrails, and experimentation to drive measurable advertiser and Pinner outcomes.
Coordinate changes to defined components of back-end ads delivery systems to meet product requirements.
Partner with engineering, machine learning, data science and analytics, design, and research teams to deliver features; collaborate with product marketing, sales, and policy and integrity teams as needed for launches.
Coordinate with Ads Quality and front-end product peers to manage dependencies, define APIs and contracts, align on experiment design and guardrails, and coordinate go-to-market activities and feedback loops.
Facilitate roadmap and requirements reviews; maintain shared artifacts such as roadmaps, PRDs, and dependency trackers; and surface risks, decisions, and changes.
Build features for ads bidding and optimization solutions that help advertisers express objectives and align budgets with business needs while maintaining a safe, delightful Pinner experience.
Deliver scoped improvements from discovery through launch and adoption, instrument metrics, write documentation, and apply learnings to future iterations.
Define success metrics and acceptance criteria, track requirement completion and post-launch quality signals, and use insights to update the roadmap and requirements.