Pinterest4 days ago

Staff Product Manager, Applied Science

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Responsibilities

  • 01Help shape the product vision and roadmap across key areas of Pinterest’s Applied Sciences portfolio, including representation learning, signals, and recommender systems
  • 02Partner with teams across Pinterest to ensure new capabilities are broadly adopted and not built or deployed in silos
  • 03Work closely with science, engineering, research, and surface teams to translate technical roadmaps into product bets with clear success criteria
  • 04Define and communicate how platform value is measured, including adoption, quality, time to production, and infrastructure cost
  • 05Partner across teams to evaluate modeling tradeoffs, support experimentation, and help ensure innovation scales sustainably across Pinterest’s major surfaces

Requirements

  • 017+ years of Product Management experience or equivalent
  • 02Demonstrated experience owning a shared ML or AI platform — such as feature stores, embedding platforms, representation learning infrastructure, recommender systems, or equivalent — where the customers are internal engineering and product teams with competing priorities
  • 03Demonstrated success shipping AI/ML products into production on high-traffic consumer surfaces, with direct involvement in retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or related areas
  • 04Strong platform product instincts and ecosystem thinking: you understand producers, consumers, and peer programs as stakeholders, and can make prioritization calls that protect the foundation while serving product surfaces
  • 05Technical credibility with ML/AI teams, with the depth to engage substantively on topics like representation learning, experiment design, model architecture tradeoffs, production readiness, and infrastructure tradeoffs
  • 06Strong cross-functional range and credibility, with a track record of building trust across technically demanding partners and driving alignment in ambiguous spaces
  • 07Governance and lifecycle discipline, including experience managing deprecation, technical debt, signal or infrastructure cost tradeoffs, and scaling new capabilities over time
  • 08Strong strategic judgment and executive communication, with the ability to synthesize open questions into clear, defensible positions
  • 09A bias toward clarity and urgency, with accountability for turning science and technical innovation into meaningful product change
  • 10Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

What we offer

  • 01In-Office Requirement Statement: We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments
  • 02This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times