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Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality Ranking

Palo AltoFull-time$230k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

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