Staff Product Manager, Content-to-Discovery Infrastructure
PinterestThis Staff Product Manager role focuses on infrastructure for a large-scale content-to-discovery flywheel. You will manage the backend systems that process, index, and serve catalog data to power search and shopping features.
What you’d own
- Multi-year strategy for acquisition, processing, indexing, and retrieval
- Roadmap for content scraping and catalog onboarding
- Data enrichment and freshness lifecycle management
- Indexing and serving systems with focus on latency and performance
Who it’s for
A fit if you…
- ✓10+ years of experience in product management or technical leadership
- ✓Proven track record building infrastructure for content, catalog, or commerce-supply platforms
- ✓Ability to navigate deep technical trade-offs regarding ingestion and serving architecture
- ✓Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams
Not for you if…
- ✗You prefer building consumer-facing features over backend infrastructure
- ✗You prefer a role with direct people management responsibilities
- ✗You prefer working on isolated products rather than shared platform systems
Reading between the lines
- The mention of 'multi-year strategy' and 'mentoring peer PMs' suggests a high level of organizational influence and leadership beyond just feature delivery.
- Focus on 'latency, performance signals, and inventory' implies the role requires deep technical competence in systems engineering.
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Benefits
Full job description
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.
Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Content-to-Discovery Platform team owns the end-to-end flywheel that turns raw content into the supply that our Pinners discover. As a Staff Product Manager on the team, you'll set direction across four connected pillars: acquisition of content and catalog data; processing, enrichment, and freshness; indexing for shopping and search; and retrieval and serving.
You'll partner with engineering, data science, and product leaders across content, shopping, and search to acquire the right supply by category and domain, keep it fresh and accurate, index it with relevance built in, and serve it to the Pinner reliably, at scale, across markets. What you’ll do: Set and drive a multi-year strategy for the end-to-end content-to-discovery flywheel across acquisition, processing, indexing, and retrieval/serving.
Own the roadmap for the infrastructure supporting content, scraping, and catalog onboarding, ensuring the right supply enters the system by category and domain. Drive the extraction, processing, metadata enrichment, and freshness lifecycle, keeping content and catalog data current and trustworthy. Own indexing across Shopping and Search Own retrieval and serving with an understanding of latency, performance signals, and inventory. Define how the org measures freshness, and reliability, and use that data to prioritize investment and demonstrate impact.
Partner across content, shopping, search, and infrastructure teams, act as the spokesperson for the platform, and mentor peer PMs (not a people-management role). What we're looking for: 10+ years in product management or technical leadership, with a record of building and launching content, catalog, or commerce-supply platforms and infrastructure at scale, not solely consumer features. Direct experience owning one or more of: content/catalog acquisition and onboarding, data enrichment and freshness pipelines, search or shopping indexing, or low-latency retrieval/serving systems.
Track record of improving data quality, freshness, or relevance metrics across a large, multi-stage pipeline. Strong technical judgment; able to go deep with engineers on tradeoffs across ingestion, indexing, and serving architecture. Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems. Analytical and strategic mindset; comfortable making high-accountability decisions and defining metrics that prove impact.
Exceptional communication and influence at all levels, from individual engineers to senior executives. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degrees a plus. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. #LI-REMOTE #LI-JP19 At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position.
The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here . US based applicants only $164,695 — $339,078 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support. By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.
About Pinterest
See all roles →Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people save and explore ideas — recipes, home decor, style, travel, and trends — through pinboards and personalized recommendations. The product is positioned as a deliberately positive corner of social media, and the business runs on advertising tied to high-intent visual search. Pinterest is publicly traded on the NYSE under PINS. The company has offices in cities including Seattle, Atlanta, Los Angeles (a new office opened in January 2026), San Francisco, and beyond, with employees citing the mission and positive product framing as core to why they stay.
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