Director, Marketing Technology & Innovation

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Pinterest is hiring a Director, Marketing Technology & Innovation, the most senior technology leader within our Marketing, Creative and Communications organization. To start, you will lead a hybrid team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs), AI Solutions Engineers, and third party platform engineering partners.

This role starts as a player-coach. You will be hands-on alongside your teams, finding resourceful solutions as the function takes shape, with the autonomy to make a few strategic hires as it grows. The right person is a genuine leader and developer of people who has not lost touch with the technology itself, still knows how to build and close enough to the stack to make smart decisions and earn the trust of both marketers and engineers.

Lead AI Solutions & Platform and Tools

• Own the AI roadmap and intake process for Marketing, Creative and Communications; drive production-grade AI solution development across org-wide infrastructure, team-level products, and individual workflows, with every initiative shipping with a full adoption plan

• Lead the Platform & Tools team, which owns and evolves the marketing sites platform and the full Marketing, Creative and Communications tools ecosystem; the team has established intake, governance, vendor operations, and cross-functional processes across Engineering, Legal, IT, and Security, and your role is to lead them forward

• Set the operating model, culture, and prioritization framework across your teams, managing full-time technical talent alongside offshore agency engineering partnerships.

Own & Evolve the MarTech Stack

• Own the end-to-end strategy, technical selection, and system integration of a broad marketing tech ecosystem (CRM, MAP, CDP, DAM, social management, and campaign tooling). Focus on system connectivity, API orchestration, and platform uptime, activating data pipelines managed by Data Science teams.

• Oversee event-tracking and media enablement infrastructure (including server-side tagging/GTM, CAPI, and conversion pixels), navigating shared codebases with Product, Security, and Engineering.

• Continuously assess and evolve the stack to ensure it reflects the future of marketing technology: integrated, scalable, and built to support the organization as it grows

• Manage the full vendor lifecycle: contract negotiations, renewals, license optimization, and performance management, with a clear view of total cost of