Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking

New 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, CA, US

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This senior staff role leads product strategy for ads quality ranking, owning the vision for matching the right ad to the right user at the right time. You'll define requirements, build and maintain roadmaps, and coordinate changes across backend ads delivery systems including retrieval, ranking, and auction components. The position requires minimum eight years as a product manager, engineering manager, or data scientist, with deep understanding of marketplace economics and strong cross-functional collaboration skills. You'll work from San Francisco or Seattle with in-office time one to two times quarterly. The salary range is $230,280–$402,990 USD.

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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 Ads Quality team helps Pinners move from inspiration to action by showing the right ad at the right time. We are at the core of the entire ads system optimizing for Pinner, Advertiser, and Pinterest value. The output of this work will both be highly impactful (driving measurable value for Pinners and Advertisers) and highly visible (your launches will change the way the app looks and feels), and will critically contribute to our mission of helping hundreds of millions of people find the inspiration to create a life they love.

The ideal candidate has a passion for delighting our Pinners and strong intuition about what matters most to their experience. In addition, they must possess a deep understanding of the back-end systems, have worked cross functionally with engineering, data teams, and PMM and understand the interaction effects of introducing qualitatively different content onto the page, and tradeoff dynamics of the ads marketplace.

What you’ll do:

Own a vision for new and existing capabilities that help match the right ad to the right Pinner at the right time, and translate problem statements into clear business and technical requirements through focused business requirements documents (BRDs) and product requirement documents (PRDs), including epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, for your area. Create and maintain a clear, prioritized roadmap and requirements backlog, track requirement status from discovery through GA, and ensure traceability from business goals to shipped features. Plan and deliver a sequenced roadmap, aligning with partner teams on architecture, guardrails, and experimentation so launches drive measurable advertiser and Pinner outcomes. Coordinate changes to well-defined components within back-end ads delivery systems (e.g., parts of retrieval, ranking, pacing/budgeting, auction/bidding, quality/diversity guardrails, conversion visibility, forecasting, modeling, or measurement) to meet product requirements.

Partner day-to-day with engineering, ML, data science/analytics, design, and research to deliver high-quality features; collaborate with PMM, sales, and policy/integrity as needed for launches. Work closely with PM peers across Ads Quality (e.g., retrieval, ranking, pacing/budgeting, measurement/incrementality, integrity) and with PMs on front-end presentation/components (e.g., modules, formats, surfaces) to manage dependencies, define APIs/contracts for your area, align on experiment design and guardrails, and coordinate GTM and feedback loops. Facilitate roadmap and requirements reviews, keep shared artifacts (roadmap, PRDs, dependency trackers) up to date, and proactively surface risks, decisions, and changes.

Build features within our ads bidding and optimization solutions that help advertisers clearly express objectives and align budgets to their business needs, while maintaining a safe, delightful Pinner experience. Deliver scoped improvements from discovery through launch and adoption, instrumenting metrics, writing documentation, and incorporating learnings into subsequent iterations. Define success metrics and acceptance criteria up front, track requirement completion and quality signals post-launch, and use insights to update the roadmap and next set of requirements.

What we’re looking for:

Minimum 8 years of experience working as a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, or related role.
Strong evidence of the ability to review and define new products and strategies with back-end products in an ambiguous space and to execute from ideation, roadmaps, to go-to-market.
Experience working with Engineering, data, or PMM cross functional teams and a strong ability to empathize with, anticipate the needs of, and effectively collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders.
Deep understanding of business metrics and tradeoffs in the contexts of online marketplaces
Preferred but not required: Experience with Ads Marketplace and/or Ads Formats
Preferred but not required: Direct experience with and fundamental understanding of ads delivery systems.
Preferred but not required: Design, run, or analyze marketplace experiments.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco or Seattle

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$230,280—$402,990 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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Role Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking
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Education Bachelor Degree, or equivalent experience
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Pinterest is a visual search and discovery platform where people find inspiration, save and organize ideas, and shop products. Users create collections of Pins around interests and future plans such as fashion, food, travel, home design, and personal projects. The platform uses recommendation and visual-search technology to connect users with relevant content and products. Pinterest earns revenue primarily from advertising and commerce tools that help brands reach people while they are exploring ideas and deciding what to do or buy next.

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8-9 years

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