# Engineering Manager I, Innovative Ad Formats

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $183k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AI, JavaScript, Python, React, Machine Learning, Ads Systems, Scalable Architecture, Testing, Observability, Code Review
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Leads engineering team building Pinterest's mid-funnel ad products like Collections and Quiz Ads, driving AI initiatives for prototyping and workflows, and owning technical roadmap. Requires 5+ years experience, 1+ years managing teams, hands-on ads expertise, and bachelor's in CS.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do:

- Lead an engineering team delivering mid-funnel ad products end to end, ensuring projects are well-scoped, de-risked, and shipped on time with strong performance against target metrics.
- Drive initiatives to apply **AI** across mid-funnel ad products, using **AI** to accelerate prototyping, experimentation, and iteration while maintaining quality and safety.
- Champion **AI** adoption in developer workflows, using **AI** to automate repeatable tasks (e.g., testing, documentation, code reviews) and improve engineering velocity and capacity.
- Use **AI** to synthesize complex inputs (metrics, experiments, user feedback, incidents) into clear insights that inform roadmap, tradeoffs, and technical decisions.
- Serve as the engineering owner for this workstream: define the technical roadmap, architecture, and long-term vision in partnership with cross-functional partners (**PM**, **Design**, **DS**, **PMM**).
- Actively contribute code and lead implementation of key projects, setting a high technical bar and modeling best practices in design, testing, and observability.
- Build and maintain a healthy, high-trust team culture, providing coaching, feedback, and career development support to engineers at different levels.
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to align on priorities, manage dependencies, and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly.

## What we’re looking for:

- **5+ years** of industry experience building complex and user-facing products, with clear accountability for timelines, quality, and business impact.
- **1+ years** of experience leading or managing engineering teams, including setting direction, driving execution, and supporting team members’ growth.
- Demonstrated experience using **AI** to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day engineering workflow (e.g., prototyping, code generation, test creation, documentation), with a clear approach to validating accuracy and robustness.
- Strong track record of critically evaluating **AI**-assisted work through testing, source-checking, data validation, and peer review; you know when to trust, when to verify, and when to override.
- High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on **AI**, and remain fully accountable for final decisions, shipped systems, and team outcomes.
- Strong hands-on technical background in **ads** or similarly high-scale domains, including designing and implementing core components in production.
- Exceptional collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders aligned on priorities and progress.
- **Bachelor’s degree** in **Computer Science**, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

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