# Staff Technical Program Manager, Search Relevance
**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $146K-$300K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Search Relevance, Machine Learning, Ai/Ml Program Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Roadmap Planning, Risk Management, Genai Workflow Automation, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-27
> Lead technical program management for Search Relevance and Merchant ML/AI initiatives at Pinterest. Drive cross-functional execution, roadmap planning, and GenAI-augmented program operations for high-impact search and shopping experiences.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do:

- Establish and own relationships with key partners across Search teams as their strategic and execution partner for delivering high impact programs.
- Define and drive Search, Relevance, and Merchant ML/AI programs based on current and emerging needs, ensuring scope, responsibilities, and ownership are well-established, risks are proactively identified and mitigated and that programs are executed and landed successfully.
- Lead the day-to-day program management of multiple work streams across the product process, including product strategy, technical design, and experimentation.
- Analyze merchant distribution and shopping experiences in partnership with Data Science; leverage these insights to lead strategy steering committees with cross-functional VPs.
- Build a subject-matter-expertise on query understanding and search engines.
- Drive product, business, and OKR requirements while also streamlining engineering efforts and cost.
- Identify gaps in shopping and search distribution strategy (i.e. signals, content, etc.) and operationalize processes to close those gaps.
- Own and scale the headcount and roadmap planning process for a large engineering org.
- Drive High-Ambiguity strategic bets: Act as the core delivery powerhouse for high-impact, fast-moving experiments. Translate ambitious executive visions into highly executable, phased project plans.
- Manage the overarching portfolio of programs within the org and mentor junior TPMs to optimize resource allocation and uplevel team performance.
- 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:

- BS in a technical discipline or equivalent experience (7+ years in a technical or analytical role).
- Strong technical breadth and judgment - ability to quickly ramp up and go deep on a range of technologies, ability to identify technical risks and tradeoffs.
- Comfort with a fast-changing environment and ability to manage ambiguity.
- Focus on execution and delivery in a data-informed environment.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, and ability to persuade others to accomplish program objectives while holding yourself and your team to a high standard of accountability.
- Experience working with Search products at a low level of detail highly desirable.
- AI-first execution mindset: demonstrated ability to use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications—starting with AI drafts and applying strong judgment to validate, refine, and drive decisions.
- Workflow design, AI fluency, data & insights orientation: experience turning repeatable program work into durable, low-toil mechanisms and improving decision-making by using GenAI (e.g., strong prompting, vibe coding lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis and leveraging agents where appropriate).
- Safety-by-design AI fluency: experience operating within AI governance expectations (risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability) and proactively identifying where AI use is not appropriate or requires additional controls.
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