Staff Product Manager, Applied Science

Responsibilities

• Shape the product vision and roadmap for Pinterest’s Applied Sciences portfolio, including representation learning, signals, and recommender systems.
• Partner across Pinterest to drive adoption of shared capabilities and prevent siloed development.
• Translate science and engineering roadmaps into product bets with clear success criteria.
• Define platform value metrics, including adoption, quality, time to production, and infrastructure cost.
• Evaluate modeling tradeoffs, support experimentation, and ensure innovation scales sustainably across major surfaces.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Product Management experience or equivalent.
• Experience owning a shared ML or AI platform, such as feature stores, embedding platforms, representation learning infrastructure, or recommender systems, serving internal engineering and product teams.
• Success shipping AI/ML products into production on high-traffic consumer surfaces, with involvement in retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or related areas.
• Strong platform product judgment and ecosystem thinking across producers, consumers, and peer programs.
• Technical credibility with ML/AI teams, including representation learning, experiment design, model architecture tradeoffs, production readiness, and infrastructure tradeoffs.
• Cross-functional collaboration and alignment in technically demanding, ambiguous environments.
• Governance and lifecycle experience, including deprecation, technical debt, signal or infrastructure cost tradeoffs, and scaling capabilities over time.
• Strategic judgment and executive communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $164,695–$339,078 USD.
• Eligible for equity.
• Benefits information is available through Pinterest.
• US-based applicants only.
• Requires in-office collaboration 1–2 times per quarter and can be situated anywhere in the country.
• Not eligible for relocation assistance.