Senior Director Technical Program Management - Platforms

at Pinterest

Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seattle, United States

About Pinterest:

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Position Summary:

As a direct report to Pinterest’s VP of Technical Program Management, Strategy, & Operations, the Senior Director of Technical Program Management (“TPM”) - Platforms will be responsible for leading a high-performing team of T/PgMs to execute Pinterest’s multi-year platform and infrastructure strategy. This leader will work closely with the VP of Engineering - Platforms and cross-functional teams, including Product and Finance, to ensure the successful delivery of multi-year strategic programs, drive reliability and scalability, and optimize costs. Success in this role requires exceptional leadership, collaboration, and influencing skills, along with a proven track record of delivering significant impact within a fast-paced, high-growth technology platform of substantial scale.

What you’ll do:

Platform Transformation & Strategy: Own and drive the program execution and directly contribute to our multi-year strategy for Pinterest's next-generation infrastructure, impacting hundreds of millions of users and thousands of engineers globally.
Executive Partnership: Partner directly with the VP of Engineering and senior executives to influence technology direction, investment priorities, and the platform vision across the company.
TPM Team Leadership: Mentor, grow, and empower a world-class TPM team, championing programs that modernize, unify, and elevate the way Pinterest engineers build and deliver.
Innovation and Operational Excellence: Provide TPM leadership for bold initiatives in automation, cloud adoption, AI integration, and developer productivity, setting industry standards to enable breakthrough features, significant cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
End-to-End Platform Modernization: Provide TPM leadership for the migration to a unified compute environment (PinCompute), the decommissioning of legacy infrastructure, and the standardization of core data and platform systems. Oversee critical platform and data migrations, technical debt elimination, and the adoption of canonical, scalable solutions.Infrastructure Governance and Fiscal Discipline: Define and implement transparent processes for infrastructure spend planning, tracking, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to deploy tooling and dashboards that ensure disciplined, data-driven investment and efficient use of resources.

What we’re looking for:

Strategic Program Leadership: Proven ability to define and drive complex, cross-company, multi-year technology transformation programs with clear, measurable business impact.
Technical Domain Expertise:

Cloud & Compute: Deep experience with cloud architectures (AWS), Kubernetes, and orchestrating large-scale compute migration and modernization efforts.
Data Infrastructure: Extensive knowledge of modern data platforms, governance, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Developer Productivity: Proven track record of advancing CI/CD, developer tooling, and workflow automation to significantly increase engineering velocity.

Executive Communication & Influence: Exceptional ability to align, communicate, and influence VPs, C-suite executives, and cross-functional partners across both business and engineering.
Leadership and Team Building: Strong capability to recruit, mentor, develop, and inspire high-performing TPM teams, fostering organizational growth and capability building.
Change and Risk Management: Expertise in leading through technical ambiguity, managing operational change, driving incident response, and ensuring resilient outcomes.
Process and Standards: Experience implementing best-in-class process frameworks, documentation, auditability, and operational rigor.
Innovation and Future-Readiness: Vision to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies (AI, multi-cloud, automation) to ensure Pinterest maintains its position at the industry forefront.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$260,000—$455,000 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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