Full-Time

Sr. Manager

Agency

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Pinterest

Pinterest

10,001+ employees

Visual discovery and bookmarking platform

Consumer Software
Social Impact

Expert

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Toronto, ON, Canada

Hybrid role requiring in-office presence 1-2 times per week.

Category
Customer Success Management
Strategic Account Management
Sales & Account Management
Required Skills
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 15+ years of digital advertising and agency sales experience, managing high performing teams with revenue quota and comfortable selling full funnel products.
  • Proven experience working with commercial teams and senior agency executives.
  • Being able to lead by example; experience and expertise in people management.
  • Strong core values and emotional intelligence that align to the needs of the team and external stakeholders.
  • Strong communication skills and analytical capabilities, managing quotas a requirement.
  • Strong ability to set strategy for the team that can be measured and executed against quarterly KPIs, leading to achievement of quota.
  • Uses data to sensitively share potentially uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of success for the business.
  • Entrepreneurial in nature and unafraid to ideate, test, measure impact and learn from their work.
  • Possesses strong customer focus and can represent a product insights, needs and feedback to right XFN teams at Pinterest.
  • Holds self and team accountable to drive incremental revenue & Canada market activation, originating from a global partnership at the account level, with the agency relationship acting as an accelerant.
  • Is indispensable to Sales for all agency account needs across Canada in their market with close planning and alignment with local teams.
  • Can consult on best scalable strategies and tactics for IC’s on team to execute.
  • Grows key senior level relationships and maintain/turn them into Pinterest advocates.
Responsibilities
  • People management: overseeing and coaching a team of four experienced individual contributors to deliver a consistently high level of service to agency partners and collaboration with xfn counterparts. Includes owning the formal performance review process with the team under management.
  • Visibility within the industry as a key Pinterest decision maker and thought leader, leading with speaking engagements and marketing activity to the benefit of the business and our partners.
  • Commercial: Ensuring performance and management of the agency commercial programs and relevant global commercial programs.
  • Sales Alignment: Ownership of partnership with the country Managing Director to implement the country level strategy via agency partners.
  • Product: Understand Pinterest products deeply and be able to address product limitations that agencies bring up. Make sure feedback is shared back to Pinterest central product functions.
  • Scaled education: Ability to collaborate with sales & XFN to define and deliver education sessions to drive comprehension of Pinterest at agencies. Providing leadership and oversight to manage budgets across bespoke agency engagement across the market.

Pinterest is a social media platform designed for users to discover and save ideas across various interests, such as recipes, home decor, and fashion. Users can create collections of visual bookmarks, called "pins," which are organized into themed boards. The platform primarily generates revenue through advertising, offering promoted pins that appear in users' feeds and search results, targeted based on user interests and behaviors. Additionally, Pinterest earns income through affiliate marketing by driving traffic to retailers' websites. What sets Pinterest apart from its competitors is its unique visual discovery engine, which helps users find inspiration and ideas while providing advertisers with a relevant audience. The company's goal is to connect users with ideas and products that enhance their lives.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$1.4B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2010

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

32%

2 year growth

43%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Idea Pins enhance user engagement with dynamic, multi-slide content formats.
  • Soniya Monga's appointment could strengthen relationships with global advertising agencies.
  • Impact Lab fosters innovation and community, potentially leading to valuable partnerships.

What critics are saying

  • Competition from niche platforms like Allrecipes could divert users and advertisers.
  • Idea Pins may struggle against established short-form video platforms like TikTok.
  • New executive appointments may lead to strategic shifts disrupting current operations.

What makes Pinterest unique

  • Pinterest's visual discovery engine offers a unique platform for creative idea exploration.
  • The platform's focus on themed boards allows personalized content curation for users.
  • Promoted pins provide targeted advertising opportunities based on user interests and behaviors.

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Benefits

Flexible and generous vacation and holidays

Global year-end paid company holiday closure

Comprehensive mental and physical health benefits for you and your family

Retirement plans that allow for tax savings

Fitness offerings

Personal and professional development resources

Adoption support, paid parental leave, egg freezing (in the US) and other family building benefits

Discounts and perks

Meals and snacks in the office