Staff Product Manager, Experimentation
at Pinterest
San Francisco, United States, Remote
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
Each year - these teams run 1000s of experiments to test new hypotheses, iterate on product experiences, make ship decisions, and track their long term impact. Our job as the experimentation team is to build a platform that meets their diverse needs, makes experimentation fast & easy, and promotes rigorous decision making. Our team includes engineers who build the infrastructure it takes to create experiments, compute billions of data points, and understand the results as well as data scientists who research best practices and cutting edge ideas to bring to Pinterest.
What you’ll do:
We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Product Manager with Experimentation and/or Data Platform expertise to take experimentation to the next level at Pinterest. You will
- Gather feedback from customers teams on their experimentation needs, challenges & opportunities
- Create and drive the multi-year product vision for investments in experimentation infrastructure & practices
- Execute on the roadmap in collaboration with engineering and data science and communicate progress to customers as we track toward the vision
- Drive an innovation agenda in partnership with Data Science to invest in higher-risk/higher-reward opportunities
- Have your finger on the pulse of emerging technologies and architectures to bring applicable ideas to Pinterest
- Help build a culture of rigorous experimentation across product managers, data scientists, and engineers
- Measure and improve the health of experimentation by creating short & long term KRs to quantify how improvements to our platform are driving product improvements and innovation
- Contribute to solving immediate business critical problems in experimentation
- Scale: Scaling our platform to support the increasingly diverse needs of experimenters across Pinterest
- End to end support: Supporting customers along every stage of the experimentation lifecycle
- ML experimentation: Building a best-in-class ML experimentation process in partnership with experts
What we’re looking for:
- In depth experience in product management building experimentation and/or other data product platforms
- Strong technical background and judgment - ability to hear customer asks and translate them into engineering or data science requirements for our experimentation platform
- Demonstrated ability to base execution & decisions on data and help build a culture of data driven decision making
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to work across teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions
- Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R)
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-REX
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.
Our Commitment to Diversity: