# Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads Performance
**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $124K-$255K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Generative AI, System Design, Data Pipelines, APIs, Ads Ecosystems, Bidding, Ranking, Optimization, Raid Tracking, Dashboards, Data Analysis, Metrics, Architecture, User Privacy
**Posted:** 2026-04-23
> Leads end-to-end delivery of complex Ads Performance programs, partnering with engineering, product, and data teams to enhance ads delivery, modeling, bidding, and optimization for better ROI and user experience. Requires 5+ years TPM experience, technical depth, and AI-first execution mindset.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do

- Own end-to-end program delivery for complex Ads Performance initiatives, driving planning, execution, and launch across multiple teams with clear goals, milestones, and success metrics aligned to monetization outcomes and company OKRs.
- Turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear program charters, roadmaps, and decision points, while proactively identifying and resolving gaps in ownership, requirements, resourcing, and data readiness.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Sales, Business Development, Research, and Product Marketing to align stakeholders and turn opportunities into actionable outcomes.
- Drive development of new performance capabilities across ads delivery and modeling, including initiatives related to **bidding, ranking, optimization**, and other strategies that improve ROI and user experience.
- Help scale existing systems to support new surfaces, formats, markets, and use cases while maintaining **reliability, latency, and cost efficiency**.
- Influence technical direction and tradeoff decisions by facilitating alignment on **architecture**, surfacing risks and uncertainties early, and helping teams navigate decisions across **accuracy, latency, experimentation rigor, privacy, and measurement** needs.
- Build durable program mechanisms and best practices, including **intake, prioritization, RAID tracking, decision logs, launch criteria, and post-launch learning loops**.
- Communicate program state, risks, and recommendations clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership, and proactively escalate when broader alignment or decisions are needed.
- 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

- **5+ years** of experience as a **Technical Program Manager** or in a related role.
- Strong leadership skills with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to lead new initiatives from the ground up in ambiguous environments.
- Passion for execution and a track record of driving large, complex programs to completion.
- Solid **technical background** with the ability to understand **system design**, technical challenges, and risks, and to break down complex problems to drive decisions.
- Strong **analytical skills**, including experience using **metrics and data** to identify opportunities, risks, and incidents.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain nuanced technical concepts to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Proven ability to influence teams and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and organizations.
- Experience building **scalable processes** and operating mechanisms in cross-functional environments.

**Preferred:**
- Experience in the **ads space**, especially across ads ecosystems, **measurement, APIs, data pipelines, integrations**, or **data products**. Understanding of **user privacy** is a plus.
- Demonstrated **AI-first execution** mindset, including the ability to use **GenAI** to accelerate planning, communications, workflows, and decision-making, while applying strong judgment and operating within governance expectations.
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