Manager II, Trends Engineering

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories. The company is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Manager II, Trends Engineering leads the technical evolution of Pinterest Trends and Audience Insights into a unified, AI-powered insights platform for advertisers.

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building Pinterest Trends, Audience Insights, and next-generation AI-powered advertiser insights products.
• Translate the team's vision into a cohesive roadmap and delivery plan, sequencing key 2026 bets such as Trends Digest, Moments, Topics expansion, Product Attributes, and the audience-first platform foundation.
• Drive measurable advertiser impact by establishing a North Star tied to adoption, insight quality, and incremental ad spend, and by standing up the instrumentation needed to prove it.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and peer Ads org teams to embed insights and recommendations into Ads Manager, seller workflows, and other advertiser journeys.
• Set the technical bar for LLM-powered capabilities (summarization, classification, conversational insights, agentic review) with strong safety, quality, and evaluation guardrails.
• Hire, mentor, and retain senior and staff engineering talent, and build team operating rhythms that scale with the charter.
• Use AI to accelerate planning, technical exploration, and decision-making, and to automate repeatable management tasks.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing teams of 5+ engineers.
• Experience leading engineering teams that build and ship consumer-facing products.
• Experience managing engineers across multiple levels and helping teams improve in effectiveness, quality, and impact.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development.
• Strong product sense and strategic thinking, with the ability to translate broad goals into clear priorities and execution plans.
• Solid technical foundation and the ability to engage in architecture, design reviews, and technical trade-offs.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, align cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver meaningful results.
• Expertise in using data and experimentation to inform product and engineering decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work, and to critically evaluate and verify AI-assisted work.

Base salary range: $177,185—$364,795 USD. The position is also eligible for equity.

Equity is offered. Other benefits are available but not specified.

Apply via the Pinterest careers page.