Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Pinterest runs one of the largest visual discovery platforms on the planet — hundreds of millions of people, billions of Pins, and a compute footprint that has to keep growing without ever slowing down. We're now taking on one of the most ambitious infrastructure bets in the company's history: breaking out of a single region and a single infrastructure provider so Pinterest can scale further, faster, and more resiliently than ever before. This isn't an incremental project — it's a foundational shift in how Pinterest's infrastructure works, touching networking, compute, security, and every team that ships on top of it.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a technical program manager or related experience, with a track record of owning outcomes, not just tracking them.
• A real appetite for complexity: you want a program where the dependencies are gnarly, the stakes are high, and the path isn't obvious yet.
• Significant experience leading large, cross-functional infrastructure programs with company-level impact, you've been in the room where the hard tradeoffs get made, and you've helped make the call.
• Strong technical judgment in cloud infrastructure: cross-region/cross-provider networking, service identity, container orchestration, and deployment pipelines — sharp enough to earn trust with senior engineers without writing the code yourself.
• A bias for resolving cross-org conflict rather than escalating it, you know how to drive a decision across teams that don't report to you.
• Excellent judgment balancing speed, reliability, security, and cost when the technical space is still evolving.
• Executive-caliber communication, you can turn a genuinely messy, technical, multi-team problem into a crisp narrative leadership can act on.
• B.S Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure expansion, cloud platform migrations, or high-growth serving infrastructure is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Sit at the center of one of Pinterest's highest-visibility infrastructure bets — owning execution across a portfolio of programs that are fundamentally reshaping how and where Pinterest runs its workloads at massive scale.
• Turn ambiguity into a real, trusted operating system for the program: a shared decisions log, risk registry, and delivery tracker that senior leaders actually rely on.
• Be the connective tissue across compute platform, networking, security, and traffic engineering teams — spotting the cross-team collisions before they become six-month delays, and driving them to resolution.
• Shape the technical decision tenets that will govern how Pinterest expands its infrastructure footprint for years to come.
• Own the staffing and capacity conversation, translating a fast-moving roadmap into resourcing asks leadership to act on.
• Be the storyteller for the program: distill a genuinely complex, multi-team effort into sharp executive updates that drive real decisions.
• Thrive in ambiguity — this program is still being built, and you'll have real influence over how it takes shape, not just a playbook to execute.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior