About the role

Role overview

Join Pinterest as an Engineering Manager (Innovative Ad Formats) to lead a high-impact engineering team building and supporting mid-funnel ad products. You will set technical direction, drive execution on revenue-critical initiatives, and apply AI to improve prototyping and experimentation while maintaining quality and safety.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage an engineering team delivering and supporting Pinterest’s mid-funnel ad products
- Ensure work is well-scoped, de-risked, and shipped on time
Drive AI initiatives across mid-funnel ad products to accelerate:
- prototyping, experimentation, and iteration (with quality/safety maintained)
Own the technical roadmap and architecture for the workstream
- Define long-term vision and actively contribute to key implementations
Hands-on execution: contribute code and lead implementation of major projects
Promote healthy team culture and support team growth and collaboration

Requirements

5+ years building complex, user-facing products with accountability for:
- timelines, quality, and business impact
1+ years managing/leading engineering teams (setting direction, driving execution, mentoring/growing team members)
Strong technical background with experience in ads or similarly high-scale domains
- designing and implementing core production components
Proven ability to critically evaluate AI-assisted work using testing, source-checking, data validation, and peer review
- know when to trust AI, when to verify, and when to override
Exceptional cross-functional collaboration with ability to manage ambiguity, tradeoffs, and stakeholder alignment
High integrity/ownership, including protecting sensitive data and avoiding over-reliance on AI
Demonstrated experience using AI in day-to-day engineering workflow (e.g., prototyping, code generation, test creation, documentation) with an approach to validating accuracy and robustness

Nice-to-haves

Not explicitly stated, but strong AI-for-engineering validation rigor and deep ad-domain expertise are emphasized.

About Pinterest

Pinterest is a technology company best known for its visual discovery platform. The company builds advertising products and experiences that help brands and businesses reach users, including revenue-critical ad formats and mid-funnel ad offerings, with increasing use of AI to accelerate iteration and experimentation.