Launch Manager

About Pinterest:

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

We’re looking for a Launch Manager to help manage our GTM process from start to finish. You’ll partner with Product Marketing Manager and make sure all task, creative assets, dependencies, and timelines are aligned + communicated to the various xfn teams and time zones. You’ll need to have strong communication skills, be able to stay organized and meet deadlines, and feel comfortable working quickly and independently.

What you’ll do:

• Will manage all our go-to-market launches from start to finish and partner with Product Marketing Managers to ensure a successful launch
• Create work-back plans, asset lists, roadmaps, and timelines to mitigate risk and ensure clear roles and responsibilities for all team members involved
• Collaborate with xfn stakeholders including Communication, Marketing, Email, Design, Creators team to ensure dependencies are met across all phases of the launch and all updates are communicated to all xfn teams
• Ensure all documentation is updated thoroughly, and provide strategic and post-mortem analysis on how we can make our workflows, processes, and GTMs better

What we’re looking for:

• 4+ years experience in operations, project management or a related field
• Organizational wizard with excellent attention to detail and ability to keep others on task and driving towards a defined milestone
• Strategic skills to help evaluate risks and tradeoffs for projects and make tough calls in order to meet timelines
• Experience working in a fast-paced company with copious amounts of cross-team collaboration
• Comfort working in an experimental and scrappy environment. You’re able to navigate unknowns and come up with new and creative solutions to problems
• A self-starter with a positive attitude. Someone who can manage concurrent workstreams, establish deadlines and hold themselves and others accountable for meeting milestones
• A passion for Pinterest and the Pinner experience
• Experience working with consumer, ads and/or influencer marketing teams, including designers

More about contract roles at Pinterest:

• This is a temporary contract position at Pinterest. As such, the contractor who fills this role will be employed either by our staffing partner (PRO Unlimited) or by an agency supplier partner, and not an employee of Pinterest.
• All interviews will be scheduled and/or conducted by the Pinterest assignment manager. When a finalist has been selected, PRO Unlimited or the agency supplier partner will extend the offer and provide assignment details including duration, benefits options and onboarding details.