# Staff Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $146k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, information security, Risk Management, Compliance, Big Data, cloud computing, Generative AI, Roadmapping, metrics and reporting, Vulnerability Management, business continuity, disaster recovery, ai governance
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Lead complex, cross-functional Security programs at Pinterest as a Staff TPM. Partner with leadership on strategy, roadmaps, and execution while driving AI-first program operations, risk management, and compliance across infrastructure and platforms.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Lead strategic Security programs that are complex, ambiguous, and multi-org in nature, with direct ownership of execution across planning, dependency management, decision-making, communications, and outcomes.
- Partner with Security leadership and Engineering Leads to run annual strategy planning, translate priorities into an executable roadmap, and define success metrics and leadership reporting.
- Drive program development, coordination, and communications across Security and key partners, with Product and Engineering as core strategic partners and close collaboration with Platforms, Trust & Safety, and Growth.
- Own the operating cadence for high-priority security initiatives, including clear milestones, governance, risk management, executive updates, and escalation paths.
- Help teams deliver improvements across Pinterest systems and processes in areas such as vulnerability management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and separation of development/production management.
- Define and improve mechanisms for program health, status reporting, and cross-functional accountability so leadership has a reliable view of progress, risk, and impact.
- Create scalable program management practices, tools, and methodologies that raise execution quality across the Security organization.
- Use GenAI as the default operating model for EP PgM execution—producing AI-assisted first drafts of core program artifacts, modernizing high-toil workflows into AI-first mechanisms (e.g., intake triage, status synthesis, action/decision extraction, risk & dependency tracking), and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, decision/trade-offs, and escalation paths.
- Prototype solutions to augment decisions through data (e.g. dashboards, data analysis) or simplify processes (e.g. process and workflow helpers, or internal tools) using AI coding assistants (“vibe coding”).
- Follow Pinterest AI guidance for risk, governance, and safety-by-design: appropriately handle sensitive data, validate AI-generated outputs, document assumptions/limits, and ensure AI-assisted workflows meet applicable policy/compliance expectations before broad adoption.

## What we’re looking for

- 10+ years of technical program management or closely related experience leading large-scale technical programs across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- 5+ years of information security, risk and/or compliance experience.
- 5+ years of big data and/or cloud experience.
- Proven success leading strategic, cross-functional programs in security, infrastructure, platform, or other technically complex domains.
- Demonstrated ability to operate at Staff level: owning ambiguous, company-relevant programs; shaping roadmaps and operating mechanisms; influencing senior leaders; and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Strong technical fluency and judgment, with the ability to understand system tradeoffs, identify technical risks early, and partner effectively with engineering leaders on complex decisions.
- Experience building metrics, health frameworks, and executive reporting that connect program execution to business and organizational outcomes.
- Strong track record of driving alignment and execution across Product and Engineering, with additional partnership across Platforms, Trust & Safety, Growth, and related cross-functional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical, operational, and risk topics clearly to leadership audiences.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is strongly preferred: security programs, abuse/anti-automation, fraud or invalid traffic, account security, PCI/compliance, vulnerability management, business continuity, disaster recovery, or access/control governance.
- High ownership, sound judgment, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments with incomplete information and evolving priorities.
- AI-first execution mindset: demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications—starting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions.
- Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation: experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision-making by using GenAI (e.g., strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis and leveraging agents where appropriate).
- Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.
- B.S Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.

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