Engineering Manager II, Web Product Enablement
Lead the Web Product Enablement team at Pinterest to empower web developers in creating high-quality web experiences.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Lead a specialized team of web platform engineers
- Set the team’s technical vision and roadmap
- Drive platform modernization
- Improve client stability and health metrics
- Hire, onboard and develop engineers
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in engineering
- 2+ years of experience in engineering management
- Strong technical judgment in Node, JavaScript/TypeScript and React
- Experience building platform capabilities
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Practical constraints
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance
- Occasionally needs to be in the office for in-person collaboration
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Use AI to accelerate engineering workflows and modernization while applying judgment and verification to maintain code quality, security and reliability.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- No sponsorship (stated in posting)
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation.
Joblaze summary
The Engineering Manager II for Web Product Enablement at Pinterest leads a team focused on enhancing web development capabilities, ensuring high-quality experiences for users and advertisers. This role requires expertise in Node, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React, along with a strong background in engineering management and platform development. Ideal candidates have over a decade of experience, including significant leadership roles, and are adept at navigating complex stakeholder environments. The position emphasizes collaboration and the integration of AI to streamline engineering processes.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Engineering Manager II, Web Product Enablement role remote?
- It's hybrid — Pinterest expects some on-site time in Toronto, ON, CA.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager II, Web Product Enablement role.
- Where is the role based?
- Pinterest is hiring for this position in Toronto, ON, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: JavaScript, Node, React, TypeScript.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Pinterest targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager II, Web Product Enablement role at Pinterest.
From the original posting
About Pinterest:
People use Pinterest to find ideas and brands that they love. We aspire to help our advertisers and partners reach their audiences with inspiring content.
Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Web Product Enablement team in Toronto. You’ll lead the engineering team that is empowering web developers at Pinterest to build modern, world-class web experiences for Pinners and advertisers with high productivity, performance, and quality.
What you'll do:
- Lead, coach and grow a specialized team of web platform engineers.
- Set the team’s technical vision and roadmap in partnership with Client Platforms and cross-functional product teams.
- Drive platform modernization that helps product teams adopt modern client architectures and build high-quality experiences.
- Improve client stability, health metrics, browser compatibility, runtime frameworks and critical dependency currency.
- Establish clear operating rhythms for planning, two-week sprints, risk management and monthly stakeholder updates.
- Hire, onboard and develop engineers, creating an inclusive, high-performing team with clear expectations and growth opportunities.
- Use AI to accelerate engineering workflows and modernization while applying judgment and verification to maintain code quality, security and reliability.
What we’re looking for:
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ years of experience in engineering management.
- Strong technical judgment from depth in Node, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- Experience partnering with Senior/Staff engineers to build high impact roadmaps.
- Experience building platform or foundations capabilities that improve the productivity and effectiveness of product engineering teams.
- Experience aligning priorities across teams and driving delivery through ambiguity and competing stakeholder needs.
- Experience improving engineering quality, client reliability, platform health or developer productivity.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering and product partners.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflows, with a strong practice of validating AI-assisted work and maintaining ownership of final outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
This job posting is for an open vacancy. Please note that the company utilizes artificial intelligence to screen applicants for the positions.
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.
- Occasionally this role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from the Toronto office (85 Richmond St W).
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