# Sr. Technical Program Manager, Personalization
**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $124K-$255K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Personalization Systems, Recommendation Systems, Ml/Ai Systems, Cross-Functional Program Management, Data Science Collaboration, Experiment Design, Roadmap Planning, Stakeholder Management, Genai Workflow Tools
**Posted:** 2026-05-22
> Drive personalization programs across recommendation platforms, ranking systems, and anticipatory experiences at Pinterest. Partner with ML, product, and engineering teams to scale personalization improvements and align cross-functional roadmaps.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do

- Own a portfolio of personalization programs spanning recommendation platforms, ranking and optimization strategies, and new anticipatory experiences (e.g., unified landing pages, intelligent/AI-generated boards) with clear goals, milestones, and success metrics.
- Drive cross-surface execution so personalization improvements scale efficiently across multiple experiences (Homefeed, Explore, SEO landing pages, board and shopping surfaces), working closely with product and engineering owners.
- Partner with Relevance and Data Science to ensure ranking and modeling work prioritizes long-term value and revisitation, and that experiment learnings systematically inform future roadmap and investment decisions.
- Design and run the operating model for personalization—creating cadences, dashboards, and decision forums that give leaders and teams a clear view of program health, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
- Align stakeholders across Relevance/ML, product surfaces, infra, curation, and growth when there are competing priorities or ambiguous ownership, and drive crisp, data-backed decisions.
- Communicate complex work simply, turning technical modeling and platform efforts into clear narratives about impact on Pinners and on the business.
- Use GenAI as a default PgM tool—starting from AI-assisted drafts for core artifacts and redesigning high-toil PgM workflows into AI-first mechanisms.
- Prototype lightweight AI-assisted helpers (scripts, dashboards, workflow tools) with AI coding assistants while adhering to Pinterest’s AI governance and safety-by-design expectations.

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager driving complex, cross-functional technical programs.
- Experience working with personalization, recommendations, relevance, or similar ML/AI-driven systems in consumer products (feeds, search, ranking, discovery).
- Ability to take ambiguous personalization problem spaces and turn them into clear, actionable roadmaps and execution plans.
- Strong program management fundamentals: highly organized, comfortable managing multiple complex workstreams, skilled at building governance, planning, and communication structures.
- Data-driven decision-maker comfortable partnering with Data Science on experiment design, interpreting results, and using metrics (engagement, retention, revisitation, latency) to guide priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a track record of explaining nuanced, technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional partners in situations with competing priorities or unclear ownership.
- Experience creating or evolving processes and playbooks that improve how teams plan, execute, and review personalization work at scale.
- AI-first execution mindset and workflow design fluency—comfortable using GenAI to accelerate TPM work, “vibe-coding” small helpers with AI coding assistants, and operating within AI governance expectations.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer and information technology, or equivalent experience.
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