Sr. Sales Strategy & Operations Manager
About the role
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the opportunity to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
Job Description
The Sales Strategy & Operations (SS&O) team guides and deploys critical business decisions across the advertising sales organization through strategy, analytics and operations. Team members are experts in business strategy and operations, as well as analytical and strategic thinking. They are pragmatic and results-oriented.
As a Senior Sales Strategy & Operations Manager for North America Enterprise you’ll partner closely with our North America Enterprise SS&O team and sales leaders to develop and bring to life data-driven strategies to accelerate growth in the business.
What you’ll do:
- Work directly with key sales leaders on critical strategic, organizational and operational projects designed to increase revenue, sales productivity and operational efficiency.
- Structure and execute on projects by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses and developing final recommendations.
- Analyze and determine key insights from key business drivers, trends and operating metrics. Translate data into insights and action, and communicate recommendations to sales leadership and the broader organization.
- Take advantage of large amounts of structured data to understand how our customers interact with our product and service offerings.
- Work with and influence cross-functional teams including Finance, Marketing, Measurement, and Product.
- Proactively identify and redefine processes and systems that improve and scale our business.
- Support company-level strategy-setting and planning efforts.
- Apply AI for data analysis and insight generation: leverage AI tooling to simplify and speed up data analysis and insight generation. Ensure strong understanding of AI outputs and connection back to data sources of truth and validating AI outputs.
- Standardize and automate workflows using AI tooling: documenting and improving recurring sales processes, building templates, checklists, and lightweight “mini‑agents” or scripts that remove manual work from planning, reporting, and sales operations.
What we’re looking for:
- 6+ years of professional experience in strategy & operations in a fast-paced, highly analytical environment, for instance: management consulting, investment banking, tech/media or revenue/sales strategy & operations).
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills — you are comfortable working with large, complex datasets, building models and forecasts, and stress‑testing assumptions to arrive at sound, data‑driven recommendations.
- High data fl