Sr Manager, Qualitative Product Research, Shopping and Search
Job Summary
The role involves leading and mentoring a team of product researchers focused on enhancing Pinterest's search and shopping experiences. Key responsibilities include shaping product strategy, influencing cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality research to inform product development. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in product research within consumer-facing software, especially in search or shopping domains, and excels at stakeholder collaboration. This position emphasizes leadership, strategic impact, and a user-centered approach to product innovation.
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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.
Pinterest is seeking a Sr Manager, Shopping and Search Product Research to lead a talented team of researchers dedicated to advancing our search and shopping experiences and the tools behind them. We’re looking for a leader with deep expertise in the search and/or shopping domain—someone who excels at collaborating across functions and organizations, and who favors swift, high-quality execution.
In this role, you’ll get to shape innovative search and shopping products that help Pinners (consumers) find new inspiration, make confident purchasing choices, and engage with Pinterest in meaningful ways at every stage of their journey.
What you’ll do:
- Manage, build, mentor, and inspire a team of qualitative and quantitative product researchers, providing product direction and pushing the quality of the user experience
- Build relationships with cross functional team members and executives across organizations, and effectively speak to process, product goals and team vision as a leader and a strong representative of research
- Influence product strategy and lead your team in planning and executing research with a high strategic impact
- Lead professional development, continuously improving leadership skills, research craft, process, and knowledge of industry and market trends, and persistently pursue the next significant challenge
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, design a related field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years in Product Research (or equivalent) and 3+ years experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
- 3+ years of being an influential research leader on consumer facing software, ideally in the shopping or search space
- Proven track record of being able to have strong conviction and the ability to influence across executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners that leads to drive toward a unified vision of a strong user experience
- Proven ability to work closely with Product, Engineering, PMM, and Design to paint both the long-term, holistic vision of our Search and Shopping products
- Strong ability to work closely with consumer teams, across Research, Design and cross-functional partners, to deeply understand the consumer experience and how to build engaging products that leverages existing user behavior and needs
- Proven track record of being able to balance ambiguity, fast iterative sprints, business awareness, technology, organizational agility, research and data insights, and high design quality
- Proven ability to accelerate team efficiency by improving processes and workflows within the research team and cross-functional teams
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In Office Requirement Statement:
- 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.
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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.
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