[Remote] Staff Product Owner, Finance & Business Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and innovation for millions of users worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Product Owner in Finance & Business Operations to define product strategies and enhance decision-making capabilities through analytics and AI. The role involves collaborating with various teams to improve workflows and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- You possess a mix of technical strength, business strength, and the ability to navigate stakeholders across different business areas and have experience building cross-functional relationships across engineering and business peers to ensure objectives are well defined and clearly understood
- You are able to navigate working at the strategic level (e.g. generating innovative ideas for growth, establishing KPI’s, leading through change management) and at the tactical level (e.g. analyzing data, solving problems, being a force multiplier)
- Define product strategy, roadmap, and execution for planning, forecasting, modeling, and analytics enablement capabilities
- You will engage the business to identify their needs and spot opportunities to build features that increase engagement and drive efficiencies
- Partner with Finance, Business Operations, Data Science, Analytics, IT, and Engineering to identify opportunities to improve workflows, decision quality, and operational efficiency
- Build and improve systems and experiences that support planning cycles, forecasting processes, business modeling, and analytical decision-making
- Help teams access better data, workflows, and analytical capabilities to support faster and more confident decisions
- Identify and deliver practical AI use cases that improve workflow speed, decision support, exception handling, insight generation, and team productivity
- Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring appropriate validation, controls, and human accountability
- Identify and deliver practical AI use cases that improve scenario analysis, insight generation, summarization, exception detection, workflow productivity, and user experience
- Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring outputs are validated and fit for business decisions
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of 12 years product management experience with minimum 3+ years in a product role in a global organization
- Excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to navigate cross-cultural and cross-functional environments
- Nimble to deliver for stakeholders: You know how to navigate hurdles and stay focused on great customer experience
- Significant product ownership or product management experience in financial planning systems, analytics platforms, or adjacent internal products
- Strong understanding of financial planning, forecasting, business operations, modeling, or decision-support workflows
- Experience enabling analytics, data products, or systems that support planning and performance management
- Demonstrated hands-on use of AI in real business workflows, not just conceptual familiarity
- Strong judgment in validating AI outputs, managing risk, and maintaining accountability for final decisions and recommendations
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams
- Proven ability to move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
- Ability to work through ambiguity, simplify complexity, and deliver measurable outcomes
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and iterative product development
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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