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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.

We are looking for a Business Savvy Engineering Manager to help define the future of Corporate IT’s ai based future at Pinterest. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams and business leaders you’ll lead a nimble team playing a pivotal role in scaling Corporate IT’s engineering department. You will guide your team in designing and building the solutions that make our business partners jobs easier, faster and more capable. You will grow and empower engineers while shaping how we build Pinterest's AI future.

What you'll do:

• Lead a team of employees and contractors focused on solving business problems using AI tools.
• Work closely with the existing software engineering teams to develop a seamless and low friction client experience.
• Mentor junior engineers to help them grow and develop into the best that they can be.
• Motivate and lead your team to show up every day and do their best work.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams across the organization to architect data lake storage and metadata management technologies to unlock big data and ML/AI innovations
• Use AI to accelerate analysis, iteration, experimentation and time to market while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of experience leading and growing engineering teams, with a strong hands-on background in Python.
• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available backend systems, including owning production-grade infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in designing and delivering AI based solutions that solve real world business problems.
• Understanding of business unit challenges and problems, Focused on Finance, Accounting, Legal, Sales and Marketing.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS and containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and people management experience, including setting team vision and long-term roadmap, mentoring and growing engineers across all levels, driving day-to-day execution and engineering alignment, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver complex, high-impact platform investments.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate team execution, system design, and decision-making, paired with sound judgment in validating outputs, maintaining quality, and taking ownership of final outcomes.
• Build storage capabilities that efficiently support large-scale ML/AI workloads, including high-throughput data access, schema evolution, and large-scale column backfills.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
• High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter, and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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

$177,185—$364,795 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.