Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads Delivery Infrastructure

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. The Team Pinterest's Ads Delivery Infrastructure team builds and operates the real-time serving, indexing, retrieval, and budgeting systems that power Shopping and Ads at Pinterest. We're in the middle of a significant modernization effort: unifying our catalog and index platforms to scale to billions of items, moving core services onto our next-generation compute platform, and re-architecting our budgeting systems for real-time accuracy. We work closely with engineering, product, and monetization teams to keep Pinterest's advertising systems fast, reliable, and ready to scale. What You'll Do: Lead or support programs that scale Pinterest's Shopping and Ads catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems to handle billions of items, partnering with engineering leads across catalog, search infrastructure, and retrieval. Drive cross-team execution on infrastructure modernization initiatives, including migrations to next-generation compute and storage platforms, managing timeline, dependency, and risk across service owners. Build and maintain program dashboards and reporting that give engineering and business stakeholders a clear, current view of progress, risk, and decisions. Partner with engineering on reliability and incident-response initiatives for revenue-critical serving systems. Communicate technical tradeoffs and program status clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, from individual engineers to senior leadership. 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 decis...

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