Staff Technical Program Manager

Role Overview

Join Pinterest as a Staff Technical Program Manager on the Security team. You will lead complex security programs to ensure a safe and reliable user experience while protecting the business, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to plan, execute, and report on high-priority initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic Security programs that are complex, ambiguous, and multi-org, owning execution end-to-end:
  • planning, dependency management, decision-making
  • communications and driving measurable outcomes
• Partner with Security leadership and Engineering Leads to:
  • run annual strategy planning
  • translate priorities into an executable roadmap
  • define success metrics and leadership reporting
• Drive program development and coordination across Security and key partners, with Product and Engineering as core strategic stakeholders, and close collaboration with Platforms, Trust & Safety, and Growth.
• Own operating cadence for high-priority security initiatives.

Required / Core Profile

• Staff-level Technical Program Management experience operating ambiguous, company-relevant programs.
• Deep security domain fluency and strong technical judgment to understand tradeoffs and identify risks early.
• Strong ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment and execution across Product and Engineering.
• 5+ years of information security, risk and/or compliance experience.
• 5+ years of big data and/or cloud experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting technical, operational, and risk topics to leadership.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in one or more areas such as:
  • abuse/anti-automation, fraud or invalid traffic
  • account security
  • PCI/compliance
  • vulnerability management
  • business continuity / disaster recovery
  • access/control governance
• Experience building metrics, health frameworks, and executive reporting connecting program execution to business/organizational outcomes.

AI-First Execution Requirements

• Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (e.g., risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and recognizing where AI use is not appropriate or needs additional controls.
• GenAI mindset: using GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications—starting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate and refine decisions.
• 10+ years of technical program management (or closely related) leading large-scale technical programs across multiple teams.

Education

• B.S. in a technical field or equivalent work experience.