Sr. Manager, Engineering

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 . About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Engineering (M17) to lead a critical function at the intersection of AI foundations, proactive experiences, and assistant product experiences at Pinterest. This leader will be responsible for building and scaling the teams, technical direction, and execution needed to power the next generation of AI-driven experiences across Pinterest.

This role is central to how Pinterest evolves toward more personalized, proactive, and assistive experiences for Pinners. You will lead teams working across foundation models, AI infrastructure, personalization, agentic systems, orchestration, and user-facing AI capabilities, helping define how Pinterest better understands user intent, anticipates needs, and delivers more useful, contextual, and inspiring experiences. You will operate as a cross-functional and cross-organizational engineering leader: setting vision, building strong teams and managers, driving execution across ambiguous product and platform bets, and partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, Data Science, and executive leadership to deliver durable impact on user experience, engagement, and long-term platform capability. What you’ll do: - Define and drive the organizational and technical strategy for AI Foundations and Proactive Experiences, spanning areas such as, LLM-powered systems, agentic workflows, orchestration, and agentic user experiences. - Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization composed of senior engineers, tech leads, creating clarity, velocity, and strong execution across multiple workstreams. - Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Data Science to shape the roadmap for proactive and assistive Pinterest experiences, translating ambitious product bets into scalable technical investments and execution plans. - Lead the development of foundational AI capabilities that enable context-aware, personalized, and anticipatory experiences, including model integration, user understanding, orchestration, safety, and evaluation frameworks. - Drive execution on a multi-year roadmap for building reusable AI capabilities that can power experiences across surfaces and use cases, improving consistency, quality, and leverage across Pinterest’s product ecosystem. - Raise the bar on engineering excellence across the org, including system reliability, experimentation rigor, privacy, security, operational health, and cost efficiency. - Establish strong operating mechanisms for technical direction and delivery, including planning, design reviews, roadmap management, goal setting, and cross-team dependency management. - Hire, retain, and grow exceptional talent, while building a healthy and ambitious engineering culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, craftsmanship, and user impact.