Manager, Software Engineering - Interaction Design

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. Intro: As an Engineering Manager on the Connections team, you will lead engineers working on product areas that help people engage more meaningfully with others across our platform. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional leaders to shape strategy, drive execution, and build a healthy, high-performing team. This role is ideal for a people-first leader with strong product sense, deep technical judgment, data-driven mindset and an AI-native approach to working.   What you’ll do:  * Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team working across user-facing product areas and the systems that support them. * Set clear goals and drive execution against a roadmap aligned with broader product and business priorities. * Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Data Science to shape strategy, prioritize opportunities, and deliver measurable outcomes. * Create a strong team environment with clear expectations, healthy operating rhythms, high standards, and psychological safety. * Coach and develop engineers across levels, helping them grow in scope, impact, and career progression. * Support technical and architectural decision-making to ensure the team builds reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems. * Use data, experimentation, and user insight to guide product and engineering decisions. * Use AI to accelerate analysis, research, drafting, synthesis, and iteration, while applying strong judgment and verification to ensure quality and correctness. What we’re looking for: * 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing teams of 5+ engineers. * Experience leading engineering teams that build and ship consumer-facing products. * Experience managing engineers across multiple levels and helping teams improve in effectiveness, quality, and impact. * Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and team development. * Strong product sense and strategic thinking, with the ability to translate broad goals into clear priorities and execution plans. * Solid technical foundation and the ability to engage in architecture, design reviews, and technical trade-offs. * Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, align cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver meaningful results. * Expertise in using data and experimentation to inform product and engineering decisions. * Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work for relevant outputs. * Strong track record of critically evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work through testing, review, or other quality controls. * High integrity and ownership in using AI: you protect sensitive information, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables. * Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working closely with Product, Design, Research, Data Science, and other engineering teams. * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.   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 recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role. * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months. Prefer to have candidates in the SF bay area or PST timezone.  #LI-REMOTE #LI-AG8 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 $208,454—$364,795 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.

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma's most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team. The TPM provides oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org to succeed. This is a role focused on enabling Figma's infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects. These large-scale efforts will involve collaboration across numerous backend, infrastructure, and security teams and cross-functional stakeholders, prioritization, decision-making, tracking execution, and driving operational excellence. We're looking for someone that can work in a TPM greenspace environment and is passionate about people, technology, and program management. Progress over process is our mantra. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT FIGMA: * Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma's infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact * Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2) * Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment and on-time delivery * Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering * Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies * Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies * Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability * Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications for senior leadership and external stakeholders WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * 8+ years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or infra-focused software engineering), with hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar) * Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components - storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details * Track record driving large-scale infrastructure programs such as migrations, cost optimization, encryption/key management, and reliability initiatives for high-availability, business-critical services * Strong cross-functional program management skills, including coordinating multi-team engineering orgs, tracking performance bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure SLAs, and establishing PM best practices in ambiguous environments * Proven stakeholder management, with experience engaging external partners (cloud providers, enterprise customers) and translating complex technical challenges into clear executive-level communications WHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * A track record of setting up and scaling TPM functions or program management practices within an engineering organization * Experience working on high-visibility enterprise security and compliance programs (SOC 2, FedRAMP, encryption key management) * Infrastructure incident management and analysis experience * Experience working with external enterprise partners on technical programs (e.g., Apple, AWS, Google) * Background in software engineering or site reliability engineering (SWE/SRE-to-TPM career path) At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.     Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.  Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual Base Salary Range: $185,000—$317,000 USD At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:  * Holding interviews in an accessible location * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers * Changing the mode or format of interviews  To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.