Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Genai

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · Seattle, WA · Oversight Engineering

This role leads company-wide programs to improve developer productivity using AI-assisted coding, validation, and deployment. It involves driving the roadmap for AI-native engineering practices, partnering with various teams to standardize workflows, and defining operational metrics and guardrails. The role requires navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and communicating with senior leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead company-wide programs that improve developer productivity through AI-assisted coding, validation, code review, and deployment safety.
  2. Drive the roadmap and operating model for AI-native engineering practices across Pinterest.
  3. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product teams to standardize best practices for AI-assisted development workflows.
  4. Define and operationalize scorecards, metrics, and guardrails across productivity, adoption, quality, reliability, and cost.
  5. Navigate ambiguity, align senior stakeholders, and turn emerging opportunities into durable multi-quarter execution plans.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience as a technical program manager, or related experience
  • Significant experience leading large, cross-functional technical programs with company-level impact
  • Strong technical fluency in developer workflows, engineering systems, platform/tooling, or software infrastructure
  • Track record driving engineering productivity or transformation programs across multiple organizations
  • Excellent judgment in balancing speed, quality, safety, and cost
  • Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and executive influence skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools, developer agents, platform adoption, or software delivery transformation

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-assisted coding
  • developer productivity
  • AI-native engineering practices
  • AI-assisted development workflows
  • AI-assisted engineering tools
  • developer agents

Other signals

  • AI-assisted coding
  • developer productivity
  • AI-native engineering practices
  • AI-assisted development workflows