Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking
Core
Own vision and roadmap for ads quality ranking and bidding systems to match the right ad to the right user, optimizing for Pinner, Advertiser, and Pinterest value.
Role type
Sr. Staff Product Manager (Ads Quality & Ranking)
Builds
Ads bidding and optimization solutions, ranking algorithms, and marketplace guardrails for the Pinterest platform.
Domain
Online advertising marketplace, machine learning ranking, and product strategy.
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product strategy, back-end system architecture, marketplace economics, cross-functional leadership, requirements definition, roadmap planning, experiment design, stakeholder management, data-driven decision making.
Preferred skills
Ads marketplace experience, ads delivery systems knowledge, marketplace experiment analysis.
Technologies
Ads delivery systems, ranking algorithms, bidding engines, experimentation frameworks.
Responsibilities
Translate business problems into technical requirements (BRDs/PRDs), define success metrics and acceptance criteria, coordinate with engineering/ML/data teams on feature delivery, manage dependencies across retrieval/ranking/pacing components, track requirement status from discovery to GA, align on experiment design and guardrails.
Seniority
Sr. Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
