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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.
Pinterest Technical Program Managers deliver critical & strategic outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries.
Pinterest is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Technical Program Manager to join our team and take on the responsibility for capacity and cloud vendor management. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating capacity planning efforts with internal stakeholders, defining the hardware roadmap with capacity engineering teams, and ensuring optimal hardware utilization through various optimization strategies.
- Collaborate with capacity engineering teams to define and execute hardware roadmap
- Coordinate capacity planning efforts with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless operations
- Lead holiday forecasting to ensure capacity meets peak demand requirements
- Own and manage capacity fleet protection strategy for at-risk instances, such as GPUs
- Drive EC2 efficiency initiatives to improve overall performance and cost-effectiveness
- Implement hardware optimization strategies, including fleet migrations, instance lifecycles, right-sizing, load testing frameworks, and profiling tools
- Drive product vision and execution plans for capacity management tooling
- Ensure that cloud vendor relationships are managed consistently, both in terms of feature delivery, escalation management, executive programming, and cross-organizational engagement/partnership
- Ensure that the AWS account team, allocated to support Pinterest, is effectively managed and appropriately engaged. Responsibilities include:
- Keeping track of feature asks and delivery
- Ensure that agendas are programmed, participation is coordinated, and pre-meeting artifacts are generated to maximize the value of meeting impact.
- Drive accountability for action items from executive meetings.
- Keep track of new product offerings and coordinate meetings internally with Pinterest Engineering stakeholders for whom the offering would be valid
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management and vendor management
- Entrepreneurial spirit with strong leadership, who can develop and lead a new initiative from the ground up and thrive in ambiguity
- Passion for execution and getting things done with a focus on streamlining process across disparate groups
- Solid technical background and ability to quickly understand technical designs, challenges, and risks
- Experience breaking down complex problems and driving decision making
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across teams
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive projects to completion
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Preferred experience with infrastructure management, either on-prem or cloud-based (cloud-based is preferred)
If you are a talented and driven Technical Program Manager with a passion for cloud infrastructure, we want to hear from you. Join our team and take on the challenge of optimizing hardware resources and driving efficiency initiatives to support our growing business.
- 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.
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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.
US based applicants only
$114,750—$236,000 USD
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify [email protected] for support.
What We Do
Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It’s the biggest dataset of ideas ever assembled, with over 100 billion recipes, home hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try. More than 250 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream about, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life.
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