Senior Director Technical Program Management - Platforms

Senior Director of Technical Program Management - Platforms

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Position Summary : As a direct report to Pinterest's VP of Technical Program Management, Strategy, & Operations, the Senior Director of Technical Program Management ("TPM") - Platforms will be responsible for leading a high-performing team of T / PgMs to execute Pinterest's multi-year platform and infrastructure strategy. This leader will work closely with the VP of Engineering - Platforms and cross-functional teams, including Product and Finance, to ensure the successful delivery of multi-year strategic programs, drive reliability and scalability, and optimize costs. Success in this role requires exceptional leadership, collaboration, and influencing skills, along with a proven track record of delivering significant impact within a fast-paced, high-growth technology platform of substantial scale.

What You'll Do :

• Platform Transformation & Strategy : Own and drive the program execution and directly contribute to our multi-year strategy for Pinterest's next-generation infrastructure, impacting hundreds of millions of users and thousands of engineers globally.
• Executive Partnership : Partner directly with the VP of Engineering and senior executives to influence technology direction, investment priorities, and the platform vision across the company.
• TPM Team Leadership : Mentor, grow, and empower a world-class TPM team, championing programs that modernize, unify, and elevate the way Pinterest engineers build and deliver.
• Innovation and Operational Excellence : Provide TPM leadership for bold initiatives in automation, cloud adoption, AI integration, and developer productivity, setting industry standards to enable breakthrough features, significant cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
• End-to-End Platform Modernization : Provide TPM leadership for the migration to a unified compute environment (PinCompute), the decommissioning of legacy infrastructure, and the standardization of core data and platform systems. Oversee critical platform and data migrations, technical debt elimination, and the adoption of canonical, scalable solutions.
• Infrastructure Governance and Fiscal Discipline : Define and implement transparent processes for infrastructure spend planning, tracking, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to deploy tooling and dashboards that ensure disciplined, data-driven investment and efficient use of resources.

What We're Looking For :