The Engineering Manager for the Search Experience team is a high visibility, high impact role that is responsible for one of Pinterest’s core features: Search. Millions of Pinners come to Pinterest to search for their next source of inspiration and our Search experience enables them to fulfill their intent and move from inspiration to realization.
In this role, you’ll lead a team of talented engineers towards smooth execution of our product roadmap. You’ll influence our technical strategy to move our technology towards a platform that can be contributed to by teams across the company. You’lll partner directly with Product Managers and designers to shape a product roadmap to delight our users and contribute to our business goals. The role will collaborate closely with various teams, including App Foundations and other product engineering teams to work together to create a holistic experience for our users across the world.
What you'll do:
- Manage a cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Backend) engineering team through the process of planning and executing against those outcomes, delivering software experiences and solutions of the highest quality.
- Mentor engineers through their career journey, from early career through staff level.
- Build a strong team culture that aims for extraordinary and creates belonging.
- Maintain a high level of product quality and polish.
- Evolve our technical foundation to improve extensibility of the platform.
- Analyze data to derive product insights and to inform our decisions.
- Shape the team’s roadmap with partners on Product Management, Design, Data Science and Research.
What we're looking for:
- 6+ years of product engineering experience as an individual contributor. You have built consumer facing products.
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager. You have people managed before.
- Strong people development skills. You have helped people grow in their careers.
- Strong product sense for consumer products. You are an ideator and a collaborator.
- Proven track record of successfully launching complex consumer-focused products that deliver business and strategic impact. You have delivered impactful product work.
- Strong project management skills. Your team gets things done.
- Experience working across multiple teams to align on roles and responsibilities and work together towards shared outcomes. You work well with others.
- Direct experience with more than one of the technologies we use: Web, Android, iOS, Python, Java. You have technical depth AND breadth of experience.
Relocation Statement:
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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