Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps people plan for lasting memories. They are seeking a Director of Partner Marketing to lead advertiser marketing through third-party partnerships and develop co-marketing strategies that contribute to Pinterest's revenue goals.
Responsibilities
- Architect a long-term vision for the partner marketing function at Pinterest in partnership with XFN teams
- Roll up your sleeves to lead key partner marketing workstreams, including events, webinars and content marketing campaigns to increase consideration for Pinterest’s advertising solutions and ultimately drive revenue
- Create a culture that emphasizes constructive feedback, ongoing learning and development, and reinforces its value to the organization
- Build tracking mechanisms that create an environment of accountability for the working team's progression
- Integrate velocity within the function by mobilizing the organization, removing obstacles, and enabling teams to focus on achieving high-quality results for the most important initiatives
- Project and plan for resourcing needs and recruit where necessary to deliver results and meet functional short-term and long-term strategic goals
- Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging talent needs of a function
- Collaborate and influence senior-level cross-functional partners on complex business challenges
- Lead the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies and plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders and create mutually supportive working relationships
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate the development of partner marketing assets, including event materials, webinar content, and co-marketing campaigns
- Act as an AI champion within the team by proactively testing and adopting emerging tools that drive efficiency, reduce production timelines, and free up bandwidth for higher-order strategic work
- Utilize AI-assisted analytics and reporting tools to surface insights on partner marketing performance, identify trends across campaigns and channels, and make faster, smarter decisions about where to invest resources
- Build a team culture that treats AI as a core working partner in the planning and measurement process
Skills
- 15+ years of experience in business marketing, with at least 7 years of experience specifically in a partner marketing leadership role, ideally at a similar or competitive platform to Pinterest
- Direct experience marketing to advertisers via partners in the campaign management, measurement, commerce and programmatic spaces
- Proven experience building program functions, growing teams and creating strategy through ambiguity
- Demonstrates mastery in changing or affecting the actions, behaviors, or perspectives of others without directly forcing those changes to happen
- Moves the function forward through a mature decision-making process by gathering and circulating data with key partners, weighing alternatives explicitly, and considering risks
- Willingly makes tough decisions and difficult trade-offs on behalf of the business
- Navigates uncertain situations and provides direction and frameworks to the function that minimize delay
- Effectively manages the stress that accompanies transitions and change and helps others adapt productively
- Sponsors and mentors people from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives
- Fosters a culture that encourages and supports inclusion and belonging, and applies understanding of differences to create value for the function
- Demonstrated comfort and curiosity working with AI tools in a marketing context, with a proactive mindset toward exploring how emerging technologies can improve team output, campaign performance, and operational workflows
- Ability to coach and inspire a team to embrace AI as a collaborative partner rather than a replacement, fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and innovation
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, a related field, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
- 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.
- Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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