Engineering Manager, Pinterest

Ads Serving Platform

Salary not provided
React
Java
Go
C++
Angular 8+
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
Java
Go
C++
Angular 8+
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Role

Who you are

  • 1+ years of engineering management experience
  • 5+ years of Back-end engineering experience
  • Strong empathy for the pain-points faced by other engineers, and the passion to solve them. You have solicited input from customers and built solutions to streamline their experience developing with your platform
  • Proven project planning and execution skills. You have led a multi-person team to get things done in a timely fashion
  • Strong people and career development skills. You have provided guidance on both technical and soft skills to help people grow their careers
  • Mastery of at least one systems language (Java, Go, C++) and some familiarity with front-end technologies (React, Angular). You have both technical depth and breadth of experience
  • Experience with cross-team collaboration, alignment, and execution. You have worked on multi-team projects to deliver impact towards a greater goal

What the job involves

  • In this role, you will lead a team responsible for growing the engineering velocity of 300+ developers working within the ads-serving space. You’ll partner closely with several other ads teams to define and execute on our strategy to develop critical frameworks and tools that allow fast iteration with high availability, enabling us to hit our aggressive business goals
  • The ads recommendation engine has the highest QPS at Pinterest, highest number of developers, and generates 100% of Pinterest’s revenue)
  • Manage a full-stack (backend, front-end, data analysis) engineering team to plan and execute against a defined strategy to accelerate engineering velocity for 300+ ads developers
  • Mentor engineers to develop their careers and achieve their goals, from early career through senior level
  • Continuously evolve the team strategy, looking 6-12 months ahead and planning around our most critical business goals
  • Partner closely with our customers on the Ads Quality and Ads Product teams to inform our strategy, and accelerate launches that deliver significant gains in revenue, CTR, CPAs, etc
  • Build a strong, inclusive team culture that aims to deliver extraordinary results and creates belonging by providing
  • Act as a stalwart of technical quality and excellence on the team, ensuring the solutions we deliver have a high level of polish and reliability

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.

Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.

Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.

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9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest


People progressing

Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.

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