Senior Technical Program Manager (Personalization)

Role Overview

Join Pinterest as a Senior Technical Program Manager (Personalization). You will drive programs that power Pinterest’s personalization systems and experiences, working across teams such as Relevance/ML, product surfaces, and platform teams to ensure Pinterest feels uniquely tailored to each user.

Key Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of personalization programs, spanning recommendation platforms, ranking strategies, optimization, and new anticipatory experiences.
• Drive cross-surface execution so personalization improvements scale effectively across multiple experiences.
• Partner with Relevance and Data Science to ensure ranking/modeling work prioritizes long-term value.
• Design and run the operating model for personalization programs.
• Align stakeholders across organizations and communicate complex work clearly to technical and non-technical partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager (or similar role) leading complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Strong program management fundamentals (organization, ability to manage multiple workstreams, and scalable governance/planning/communication).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain nuanced technical topics to senior leadership and diverse audiences.
• Experience creating or evolving processes/playbooks to improve planning, execution, and review of personalization work at scale.
• Experience with personalization/recommendations/relevance or similar ML/AI-driven systems in consumer products (e.g., feeds, search, ranking, discovery).
• Data-driven decision-making, comfortable partnering with Data Science on experiment design, interpreting results, and using metrics (engagement, retention, revisitation, latency).
• Ability to translate ambiguous personalization goals (e.g., “more anticipatory”, “optimize for long-term value”) into actionable roadmaps.

Nice-to-Haves / Additional Signals

• AI-first execution mindset, including comfort using GenAI to accelerate TPM work and collaborating within AI governance/safety-by-design expectations.