What you’ll do
Vision and Strategy: Architect a long-term vision for the partner marketing function at Pinterest in partnership with XFN teams.
Player-Coach Execution: Roll up your sleeves to lead key partner marketing workstreams, including events, webinars and content marketing campaigns to increase consideration for Pinterest’s advertising solutions and ultimately drive revenue.
Team Leadership and Talent Development: Create a culture that emphasizes constructive feedback, ongoing learning and development, and reinforces its value to the organization.
Operational Rigor and Accountability: Build tracking mechanisms that create an environment of accountability for the working team's progression. Integrate velocity within the function by mobilizing the organization, removing obstacles, and enabling teams to focus on achieving high-quality results for the most important initiatives.
Organizational Design and Capability Building: Project and plan for resourcing needs and recruit where necessary to deliver results and meet functional short-term and long-term strategic goals. Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging talent needs of a function.
Cross-Functional Alignment and Influencing: Collaborate and influence senior-level cross-functional partners on complex business challenges. Lead the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies and plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders and create mutually supportive working relationships.
AI-Powered Marketing Execution: Leverage AI tools to accelerate the development of partner marketing assets, including event materials, webinar content, and co-marketing campaigns. Act as an AI champion within the team by proactively testing and adopting emerging tools that drive efficiency, reduce production timelines, and free up bandwidth for higher-order strategic work.
Data-Driven Optimization Through AI: Utilize AI-assisted analytics and reporting tools to surface insights on partner marketing performance, identify trends across campaigns and channels, and make faster, smarter decisions about where to invest resources. Build a team culture that treats AI as a core working partner in the planning and measurement process.
What we’re looking for
- 15+ years of experience in business marketing, with at least 7 years of experience specifically in a partner marketing leadership role, ideally at a similar or competitive platform to Pinterest.
- Direct experience marketing to advertisers via partners in the campaign management, measurement, commerce and programmatic spaces.
- Proven experience building program functions, growing teams and creating strategy through ambiguity.
- Mastery in influencing without direct authority.
- Mature decision-making process, weighing alternatives and risks, making tough trade-offs.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and providing direction.
- Sponsors and mentors people from a variety of backgrounds; fosters inclusion.
- Demonstrated comfort and curiosity working with AI tools in a marketing context; proactive in exploring emerging technologies to improve output and workflows. Ability to coach team to embrace AI as a collaborative partner.
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, a related field, or equivalent experience.
The position is eligible for equity. Final salary based on location, experience, skills.
