Staff Technical Program Manager, SOX Compliance

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This role is within the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) Compliance Technical Program Management team which delivers critical strategic technical compliance outcomes by directing and scaling engineering effort across organizational and functional boundaries. The programs they lead have most or all of these characteristics: Strategic importance to Pinterest Distributed ownership Complexity Critical technical area or platform The ideal candidate is an experienced Staff-level Technical Program Manager with deep SOX domain fluency and strong technical judgment, who excels at strategically leading complex, cross-functional programs and influencing senior leadership. This person must also embrace an AI-first execution mindset, leveraging GenAI to streamline program operations while ensuring compliance and safety-by-design.

What You’Ll Do

: Lead strategic compliance engineering programs that span multiple teams and organizations, translating broad risk and control objectives into executable roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes. Build and run operating mechanisms for program health, dependency management, decision-making, and executive visibility across audits, remediation efforts, and control maturity initiatives. Modernize the SOX audit program by transitioning compliance workflows from manual, high-toil evidence collection to AI-driven, automated control monitoring and audit readiness, driving greater efficiency and scalability across the organization.

Partner with Engineering and Product as core strategic partners, and work closely with Finance, engineering control owners, and Contractors to align on priorities, sequencing, ownership, and delivery accountability. Drive durable improvements in how the org plans, tracks, and evidences control execution, reducing manual effort and improving consistency, readiness, and trust.

Requirements

with engineering pragmatism. Create best practices, tools, and methodologies that raise execution quality for the broader organization, not just for a single program. , intake triage, status synthesis, action/decision extraction, risk dependency tracking), and synthesizing signals to proactively surface risks, decision/trade-offs, and escalation paths.

g. g. process and workflow helpers, or internal tools) using AI coding assistants (“vibe coding”).