[Remote] Staff Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform where millions find creative ideas and plan for lasting memories. They are seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to focus on cross-engineering special projects, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring successful delivery of programs related to infrastructure and data engineering.
Responsibilities
- Translate Strategy into Execution — Convert strategic platform priorities into structured, milestone-driven execution plans; operating at both breadth (big picture vision) and depth (driving granular details with engineering teams) to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Shape Planning & Influence Roadmaps — Serve as a thought leader to cross-functional stakeholders during annual and quarterly planning cycles; influencing product and platform roadmap decisions with data-informed perspectives and a deep understanding of organizational priorities and technical tradeoffs
- Build Scalable Processes & Best Practices — Define, institutionalize, and continuously improve program management processes, frameworks, and tooling; elevating organizational execution capability and enabling teams to operate with greater agility, consistency, and efficiency at scale
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment & Communication — Build transparent, adaptive communication channels across Engineering, Capacity Eng, Production Eng, Product, Security, and Legal; ensuring stakeholders at all levels; from ICs to executives, have timely, accurate visibility into priorities, status, risks, and decisions
- Own Program Outcomes End-to-End — Take full accountability for the success of high-impact programs, ensuring measurable delivery through rigorous planning, proactive risk mitigation, and relentless follow-through; representing program interests at the highest levels of the organization
Skills
- 8+ years of TPM or related experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proven track record of leading and delivering complex migrations, multi-year initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams and organizations
- Working understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure and data systems or delivery platforms
- Knowledge of compute platforms across the industry, and/or optimization of AWS resources, DevOps, and systems engineering principles
- Strong ability to analyze organizational context, anticipate future scenarios, and shape program roadmaps aligned to company-level strategy and OKRs
- Entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in ambiguity and builds programs from the ground up
- Demonstrated success influencing senior and executive leadership
- Providing well-reasoned input to critical decisions
- Building trusted relationships across disciplines and organizations without relying on formal authority
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Track record of using data, innovative approaches, and structured frameworks to navigate complexity, resolve ambiguity, and mitigate program risks proactively
- Demonstrated experience creating and driving efficient, scalable processes and best practices that increase organizational agility
- Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Able to distill nuanced, technical concepts for diverse audiences
- Build consensus across competing perspectives
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that reflects Pinterest's commitment to diversity and belonging
- Experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms
- Strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts and tools
- Building dashboards, and leveraging agents to improve decision-making and operational throughput
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