Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads Delivery Infrastructure

About the Team

Pinterest's Ads Delivery Infrastructure team builds and operates the real-time serving, indexing, retrieval, and budgeting systems that power Shopping and Ads at Pinterest. We're in the middle of a significant modernization effort: unifying our catalog and index platforms to scale to billions of items, moving core services onto our next-generation compute platform, and re-architecting our budgeting systems for real-time accuracy. We work closely with engineering, product, and monetization teams to keep Pinterest's advertising systems fast, reliable, and ready to scale.

What You'll Do

• 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, 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 using AI coding assistants.
• Follow Pinterest AI guidance for risk, governance, and safety-by-design.

What We're Looking For

• 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 using GenAI.
• Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field or equivalent experience.