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# Staff Product Manager, Applied Science at Pinterest

- **Company:** Pinterest
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / United States
- **Compensation:** $165k–$339k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/?gh_jid=8082033

## Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the [flexibility](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-life/pinflex/) to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process [here](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-philosophy-on-ai-in-hiring/).

Pinterest is where more than half a billion people come to find what they love and build a life around it. That experience depends on deep understanding — understanding what a Pinner loves, what a Pin means, and how to surface the right content at the right moment. Across recommender systems, signals, and representation learning, the Applied Sciences team develops the next generation technologies that power personalized discovery across Pinterest.

We’re looking for Staff Product Managers to help shape the next chapter of Pinterest’s applied AI/ML platform. In these roles, you’ll bring together research ambition and product discipline to help define the future of personalized experiences at one of the world’s leading discovery platforms.

The roles

Applied Sciences at Pinterest spans core areas including representation learning, signals, and recommender systems. This work includes embeddings, shared feature layers, unified models, ranking systems, and behavioral understanding that support retrieval, ranking, ads, and personalized experiences across Pinterest. These are scaled systems and infrastructure that teams across the company depend on, and every innovation compounds to our top line goals.

Pinterest’s work in this space is grounded in a few core principles: using historical user data to understand evolving preferences, developing models and systems that can support multiple tasks and surfaces, and maintaining infrastructure in a cost-conscious way to support sustainable scale across hundreds of millions of users.

As a Staff Product Manager on Applied Sciences, you’ll partner closely with science, engineering, research, and product teams across Pinterest to help define the roadmap, abstractions, and product strategy that make this work broadly useful across the company while strengthening the shared foundation. You’ll help balance innovation, adoption, scale, and long-term platform health.

Learn more about our work: Representation learning: https://labs.pinterest.com/research-and-innovation/representation-learningRecommender systems: https://labs.pinterest.com/research-and-innovation/recommender-systems

## What you'll do

- Help shape the product vision and roadmap across key areas of Pinterest’s Applied Sciences portfolio, including representation learning, signals, and recommender systems.
- Partner with teams across Pinterest to ensure new capabilities are broadly adopted and not built or deployed in silos.
- Work closely with science, engineering, research, and surface teams to translate technical roadmaps into product bets with clear success criteria.
- Define and communicate how platform value is measured, including adoption, quality, time to production, and infrastructure cost.
- Partner across teams to evaluate modeling tradeoffs, support experimentation, and help ensure innovation scales sustainably across Pinterest’s major surfaces.

## What we're looking for

- 7+ years of Product Management experience or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience owning a shared ML or AI platform — such as feature stores, embedding platforms, representation learning infrastructure, recommender systems, or equivalent — where the customers are internal engineering and product teams with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated success shipping AI/ML products into production on high-traffic consumer surfaces, with direct involvement in retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or related areas.
- Strong platform product instincts and ecosystem thinking: you understand producers, consumers, and peer programs as stakeholders, and can make prioritization calls that protect the foundation while serving product surfaces.
- Technical credibility with ML/AI teams, with the depth to engage substantively on topics like representation learning, experiment design, model architecture tradeoffs, production readiness, and infrastructure tradeoffs.
- Strong cross-functional range and credibility, with a track record of building trust across technically demanding partners and driving alignment in ambiguous spaces.
- Governance and lifecycle discipline, including experience managing deprecation, technical debt, signal or infrastructure cost tradeoffs, and scaling new capabilities over time.
- Strong strategic judgment and executive communication, with the ability to synthesize open questions into clear, defensible positions.
- A bias toward clarity and urgency, with accountability for turning science and technical innovation into meaningful product change.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our[PinFlex](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/pinflex/) page to learn more about our working model.

## #LI-REMOTE

## #LI-REX

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found [here](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/pinterest-life/).

US based applicants only $164,695—$339,078 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete [this form](https://forms.gle/sS24D4WboEKUZMQK6) for support.

By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

## About Pinterest

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pinterest is a visual discovery engine that helps people find inspiration for their lives, from recipes and home decor to fashion and travel.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: PINS)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Social media / Visual discovery
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking inspiration) and B2B (advertisers and brands)
- **Mission**: “Bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.” [pinterestcareers.com](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Pinterest Platform**: A visual bookmarking and discovery tool where users create and share idea boards (SaaS/web/mobile).
- **Pinterest Ads**: An advertising platform enabling businesses to reach users through promoted pins, shopping ads, and video content.
- **Shopping Features**: Product pins, visual search, and direct purchase links that integrate e-commerce into the discovery experience.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: PINS). Market capitalization fluctuates; refer to latest financial reports for current figures.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue (FY2024 reported ~$3.2 billion) – not explicitly provided in search results; see SEC filings.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Early investors include SV Angel, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital. Key partners include Shopify, Google Cloud, and Amazon Ads.
- **Growth Signals**: 186 open positions listed on the careers site, global offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, and Dublin. CEO Bill Ready emphasizes a “positive internet” business model as a growth differentiator. [pinterestcareers.com/jobs](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Visual-first discovery**: Unlike text-based search engines, Pinterest uses image recognition and AI to surface ideas visually.
- **High-intent user base**: Users actively seek inspiration, making the platform highly valuable for advertisers.
- **AI at the core**: Machine learning powers recommendations, visual search, and shopping personalization.
- **Positive brand positioning**: Focus on inspiration and positivity differentiates it from other social platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and shopping**: Deep investment in AI to improve discovery and enable seamless shopping experiences.
- **Global expansion**: Growing international user base and advertiser ecosystem.
- **Creator and merchant tools**: Empowering content creators and small businesses to reach audiences directly.
- **Workplace flexibility**: The “PinFlex” model balances in-person collaboration with remote work autonomy. [pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Create the career you love” – emphasis on positivity, inclusion, and belonging. [pinterestcareers.com](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/)
- **Work model (PinFlex)**: Flexible – employees can work from an office or remotely within their country/region. In-person collaboration happens when it drives impact. A “Global30” program allows up to 30 days of work abroad per year. [pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex/)
- **Benefits**: Minimum 20 weeks global paid parental leave; comprehensive health, mental health, and wellness benefits; fertility and family building support; flexible vacation; retirement plans; home office stipend; office meals and snacks. [pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/benefits](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/benefits/)
- **Engineering culture**: AI is central to product innovation. Candidates may be asked to use AI tools during interviews, but individual skills are assessed fairly. [pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub/)
- **Interview process**: Transparent, competency-based interviews with recruiter, hiring manager, and cross-functional partners. Accommodations available. [pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub/)

## Sources
1. [pinterestcareers.com](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/) – Company overview, mission, culture
2. [pinterestcareers.com/jobs](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/) – Open positions and locations
3. [pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/benefits](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/benefits/) – Benefits and philosophy
4. [pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/inside-pinterest/pinflex/) – Flexible work model details
5. [pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/candidate-hub/) – Interview process and FAQs

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