Principal Product Manager, AI Compliance

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Core Product

The Principal Product Manager, AI Compliance will define and drive the product strategy for AI governance and compliance, ensuring AI models are developed, deployed, and used in alignment with legal requirements, company values, and strategic objectives. This role involves owning user-facing and internal data controls for AI training, expanding AI compliance tooling, and partnering with Legal, Privacy, Policy, and Engineering to translate regulatory requirements into product workstreams and platform capabilities. The role also involves leading cross-functional programs and serving as a thought partner on AI governance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive AI compliance and governance product strategy across Pinner- and advertiser-facing AI products, ensuring that model training and inference align with global regulatory obligations, internal policies, and Pinterest’s values.
  2. Own user-facing and internal data controls for AI training (e.g., AI data opt-out mechanisms), setting requirements and roadmaps that balance product performance, privacy, and regulatory needs while ensuring effective internal enforcement and awareness.
  3. Expand and support AI compliance tooling—from detection and labeling systems (such as watermarking and provenance) to governance workflows and inventories—so teams across Pinterest can build compliant AI experiences efficiently and consistently.
  4. Partner deeply with Legal, Privacy, Policy, Security, and Engineering to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, prioritized product workstreams and scalable platform capabilities.
  5. Lead high-visibility, cross-functional programs that span multiple product areas, infrastructure, and engineering teams, creating alignment on tradeoffs, sequencing, and resourcing for AI governance initiatives across the company.

Skills

Required

  • Deep AI/ML or data platform product experience
  • Proven success driving cross-company, multi-year programs at a Staff/Principal level (or equivalent)
  • Experience working closely with Legal, Privacy, Policy, and Security teams
  • Fluency with data and governance concepts
  • Track record of building or scaling compliance or governance tooling
  • Exceptional communication and influence skills
  • Comfort operating in fast-changing regulatory and technical environments
  • Ability to lead and operate in highly ambiguous environments and execute with urgency

Nice to have

  • experience in AI safety, responsible AI, or AI compliance is a strong plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI compliance
  • governance
  • regulatory requirements
  • AI safety
  • responsible AI
  • compliance tooling
  • governance tooling

Other signals

  • AI compliance and governance product strategy
  • AI data opt-out mechanisms
  • AI compliance tooling
  • translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, prioritized product workstreams
  • principal-level thought partner on AI governance