Staff Product Manager, Ai/ml Personalization

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

Product Manager for AI/ML Personalization at Pinterest, focusing on driving the future of personalized experiences on the platform. This role involves defining, designing, and launching AI/ML-powered features for user discovery, curation, and shopping, partnering with Engineering, Data Science, and Design to deliver impactful products on high-traffic surfaces.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, design, and launch thoughtful AI/ML-powered experiences that help users discover, curate, and shop ideas tailored to their unique taste.
  2. Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, and Data Science to craft seamless and delightful experiences at the intersection of user experience, ML, and AI.
  3. Set product vision, influence strategy, write requirements, develop hypotheses, and establish success metrics for critical personalization initiatives.
  4. Identify and prioritize new opportunities to advance the relevance, impact, and sophistication of personalization across Pinterest’s Curation portfolio.
  5. Autonomously navigate and resolve complex, ambiguous product challenges—and influence product strategy across multiple teams.

Skills

Required

  • Experience building and launching personalized experiences, ideally at scale, for consumer products (e-commerce a plus)
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML product development; ability to credibly partner with engineers and data scientists across the stack.
  • Sharp communication: Comfortable presenting to executives and cross-functional audiences; excels at simplifying complex technical and product concepts.
  • Strategic and customer-centric: Deep empathy for user needs, with an ability to turn rich data and insights into new opportunities and delightful features.
  • Collaborative influencer: Ability to build trusted relationships with a variety of internal partners (including Advanced Technology, Growth, Trust & Safety, Monetization, and more) and align them to shared goals.
  • Ownership mindset: Skilled at defining what success looks like, rallying teams, and guiding projects from ideation to successful launch.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • e-commerce a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Track record in AI/ML products
  • Experience building and launching personalized experiences, ideally at scale, for consumer products (e-commerce a plus)
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML product development

Other signals

  • driving the future of personalized experiences
  • deliver industry-leading AI and ML solutions
  • ship impactful products on high-traffic Pinterest surfaces