Technical Program Manager II, Infrastructure – Capacity & Efficiency

Job Description:

  • Manage infrastructure capacity and efficiency programs at Pinterest
  • Track program deliverables, follow up on action items, and maintain schedules
  • Present program status and asks to engineering partners
  • Collaborate with engineers and senior technical program managers
  • Improve infrastructure utilization, right-sizing, and waste reduction
  • Use GenAI to accelerate planning, program operations, stakeholder communications, and decision-making
  • Design durable, low-toil workflows, dashboards, scripts, and data-driven mechanisms
  • Apply AI governance practices, including risk assessment, data handling, output validation, and auditability
  • Help shape the future of Pinterest's infrastructure

Requirements:

  • 2–4 years of program or project management experience (or equivalent), ideally touching infrastructure, platform, or cloud environments
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or similar), including compute, storage, and basic usage/cost concepts
  • Interest in and some exposure to capacity management and infrastructure efficiency
  • Strong organizational and execution skills
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Ability to collaborate with engineers and senior TPMs and take feedback
  • AI-first execution mindset, including use of GenAI for planning, program operations, and stakeholder communications
  • Experience designing durable, low-toil workflows and using GenAI, prompting, lightweight scripts/tools, dashboards, data analysis, and agents
  • Experience with AI governance, including risk assessment, data handling, model/output validation, auditability/traceability, and identifying inappropriate AI use
  • Preferred: exposure to FinOps, cost management, or capacity-focused functions
  • Preferred: familiarity with SuperSet, Tableau, Grafana, or similar BI tools
  • Preferred: basic SQL or scripting skills
  • Preferred: exposure to distributed systems, ML/AI infrastructure, or large-scale compute environments
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience

Benefits:

  • Equity eligibility
  • PinFlex flexibility
  • In-person office collaboration only 1–2 times every 6 months
  • Relocation assistance is not available
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