Staff Product Manager, Visual Search id-6310

April 10, 2025

About Pinterest:

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

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We are a leaned-in platform where users come with active intent, not a place to watch funny dance videos or doom scroll through news. As such, we are positioned to succeed in Shopping in a differentiated way. As a platform, we are uniquely positioned at the intersection of search, social and commerce. The full-funnel experience across homefeed, search, and related pins - combined with the ability to save, collaborate and curate - enables users to have dynamic, multi-session journeys and go seamlessly from inspiration to action. These journeys are rarely linear and Pinterest enables statefulness better than any other platform - allowing users to stop and start, refine down, broaden out and come back to where they left off - seamlessly navigating between discover, decide and do.

What you’ll do:

Visual Search is uniquely Pinterest and how we help users decide on and buy the product or service that they find while browsing or searching on Pinterest. Most of your time will be spent thinking about how to make the journey of shopping on Pinterest fun and frictionless.

Develop and execute a cohesive Visual Search strategy and roadmap in close partnership with Executive, Product, Engineering, Design and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Build innovative new Visual Search features that tap into the unique user intent on Pinterest. You’ll create products that help users realize the inspiration they find on Pinterest, browse products, and ultimately find the item they want to buy.

Partner closely with a wide range of disciplines including engineering, data science, design, research, marketing, legal, strategy, and other product managers to define, measure, and drive execution.

What we’re looking for:

Strong product sense: Strong product sense and ability to collaborate and get buy-in from stakeholders while setting a longer term vision.

Experience building AI/ML products: Demonstrated success in product management or related experience at fast-growing companies particularly working on AI/ML based products.

Bring structure to ambiguity: Proven ability to lead in ambiguous environments, aligning across functions, teams, and orgs to deliver on time in a highly collaborative environment.

Expert at weaving together data, user feedback, and intuition: Strong analytical skills to define product strategy and drive decision making, making appropriate trade-offs based on data analysis and qualitative feedback from Pinners.

Previous experience in search, social media, and/or content platforms is a plus but not required.

Technical strength: You’ll partner closely with Engineering teams working with a wide variety of technologies, including Machine Learning.

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science or equivalent experience.

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. 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. 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.

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