Staff Product Owner, Finance & Business Operations

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · IT

Product Owner for Finance & Business Operations at Pinterest, focusing on defining product strategy, roadmap, and execution for planning, forecasting, modeling, and analytics enablement capabilities. The role involves identifying and delivering practical AI use cases to improve business workflows, decision support, and team productivity, with a strong emphasis on validating AI outputs and maintaining human accountability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define product strategy, roadmap, and execution for planning, forecasting, modeling, and analytics enablement capabilities.
  2. Partner with Finance, Business Operations, Data Science, Analytics, IT, and Engineering to identify opportunities to improve workflows, decision quality, and operational efficiency.
  3. Build and improve systems and experiences that support planning cycles, forecasting processes, business modeling, and analytical decision-making.
  4. Identify and deliver practical AI use cases that improve workflow speed, decision support, exception handling, insight generation, and team productivity.
  5. Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring appropriate validation, controls, and human accountability.

Skills

Required

  • Product management experience
  • Product ownership in financial planning systems, analytics platforms, or adjacent internal products
  • Understanding of financial planning, forecasting, business operations, modeling, or decision-support workflows
  • Enabling analytics, data products, or systems that support planning and performance management
  • Hands-on use of AI in real business workflows
  • Judgment in validating AI outputs, managing risk, and maintaining accountability
  • Communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, simplify complexity, and deliver measurable outcomes
  • Agile principles and iterative product development

Nice to have

  • Technical strength
  • Business strength
  • Ability to navigate stakeholders across different business areas
  • Experience building cross-functional relationships across engineering and business peers
  • Generating innovative ideas for growth
  • Establishing KPI’s
  • Leading through change management
  • Analyzing data
  • Solving problems
  • Being a force multiplier

What the JD emphasized

  • Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring appropriate validation, controls, and human accountability.
  • Demonstrated hands-on use of AI in real business workflows, not just conceptual familiarity.
  • Strong judgment in validating AI outputs, managing risk, and maintaining accountability for final decisions and recommendations.

Other signals

  • Identify and deliver practical AI use cases that improve workflow speed, decision support, exception handling, insight generation, and team productivity.
  • Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring appropriate validation, controls, and human accountability.
  • Demonstrated hands-on use of AI in real business workflows, not just conceptual familiarity.
  • Strong judgment in validating AI outputs, managing risk, and maintaining accountability for final decisions and recommendations.