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Sr. Manager, Policy Communications
Posted 9 Oct
What’s this role about? Lead the policy communications team to shape public narratives around Pinterest's safety, regulatory, and responsible AI priorities. Develop and execute strategic media campaigns while serving as a trusted advisor to cross-functional leadership.
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About Pinterest Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.
Bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Responsibilities
- Shape the industry news and policy debates that most directly affect Pinterest through proactive campaigns and rapid-response communications.
- Partner with cross-functional teams across Government Affairs, Legal, Compliance and Trust & Safety to develop and drive a strategic media relations agenda that translates Pinterest’s policy and safety objectives into successful communications campaigns that set the stage for Pinterest’s continued success.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with key tech policy press, publications, broadcasters, opinion formers, experts, emerging media platforms, Hill staff and third-party stakeholders to advance Pinterest’s reputation and priorities.
- Anticipate, monitor and manage reputational issues, threats, and fast-moving regulatory developments with effective communications plans and strategies.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders across Pinterest to ensure Pinterest’s mission and business are well-understood and well-perceived.
- Represent Pinterest at relevant conferences, panels, and industry events, articulating the company’s policy and safety positions effectively and fostering constructive dialogue.
- Draft press releases, blog posts, FAQs, and key messages.
Qualification
- Minimum 10 years of experience in media, corporate, political, government or agency communications.
- Experience driving policy- and safety-focused media campaigns that distill complex concepts into clear, engaging narratives in the public policy and regulatory sphere.
- Strong relationships with key technology and policy press and influencers.
- Sharp written and verbal communicator with exceptional judgement, business acumen, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with global regulations and policies across consumer technology, online safety, content enforcement and privacy.
- Experience as on the record spokesperson and communicator on complex policy and legal topics.
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- As a result, there are no set in office expectations, however candidates should anticipate commuting based on business need and therefore should be based in the following cities: Washington DC; San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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- At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
- US based applicants only
Benefits
- Equity
- Health Insurance
- Inclusive Workplace
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