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We’re looking for an influential and highly collaborative Lead People Tech Specialist with 7+ years of progressive HR technology experience, including deep expertise in recruiting systems, Workday, and integrated People technology ecosystems. This person should bring hands-on experience implementing, optimizing, and supporting recruiting platforms, with a strong understanding of requisition management, candidate workflows, interview processes, offers, onboarding handoffs, recruiting data, compliance considerations, and the downstream impact recruiting technology has across the employee lifecycle. Experience leading or partnering on integrations between recruiting systems and Workday is especially important, including requirements gathering, data mapping, testing, issue resolution, launch readiness, and post-go-live support.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, cross-functional partner who can connect people, process, data, and technology at scale. They should be comfortable working closely with Recruiting, Recruiting Operations, People Operations, HRIS, IT, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and senior business stakeholders to define scalable solutions, influence decisions, and drive alignment across complex initiatives. We’re looking for someone who can operate as both a strategic advisor and hands-on execution lead — simplifying complexity, mentoring others, strengthening governance and documentation, and ensuring People Tech solutions are adopted successfully and deliver lasting business value.

Role Description:
Lead People Tech Specialists shape and optimize the future of our people technology landscape, supporting our People programs and processes with strategic and scalable solutions. As a pivotal member and thought leader of the HR People Tech team, you’ll orchestrate complex, cross-functional projects, partner with diverse stakeholders to identify opportunities, provide technical mentorship, and drive organizational transformation through best-in-class technology adoption and stewardship.

What you’ll do:

Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver transformative tech solutions for highly complex, multi-stakeholder projects, with a focus on Workday and integrated People technologies.
Assess broad business needs and set strategic direction for technology solutions, balancing long-term vision with effective execution.
Lead strategy, implementation, optimization, and support for recruiting technology platforms, ensuring solutions improve recruiter productivity, candidate experience, hiring manager experience, data quality, and operational scale.
Partner closely with Recruiting and Recruiting Operations to assess current-state workflows, identify pain points, and design scalable future-state processes across requisitions, candidates, interviews, offers, and onboarding handoffs.
Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for People Tech, facilitating alignment and prioritization across teams and initiatives.
Cultivate a knowledge-sharing culture by mentoring teammates, developing advanced training resources, and enabling successful system adoption and change management.
Champion and enhance best practices across project management, security, documentation, and stakeholder engagement to ensure reliable, compliant, and high-impact outcomes.
Shape the team’s use of AI toward high-impact People Tech work by identifying and testing promising use cases through focused experiments with measurable impact goals; embed successful practices into team processes and workflows while ensuring critical evaluation, clear ownership, responsible use, and appropriate guardrails against over-reliance on AI.

What we’re looking for:

Influential HR technology expert with 7+ years of progressive experience, deeply skilled in Workday and HR system integration across the talent lifecycle.
Proven experience implementing, enhancing, or supporting ATS/recruiting platforms, with a strong understanding of requisition management, candidate workflows, interview processes, offers, onboarding handoffs, recruiting compliance, and recruiter/hiring manager experience.
Demonstrated experience leading or partnering on integrations between recruiting systems and Workday, including requirements gathering, data mapping, configuration, testing, issue resolution, launch readiness, and post-go-live support.
Visionary and strategic thinker with a proven ability to connect people, process, and technology at an enterprise level.
Inspiring partner and mentor celebrated for enabling collaboration, developing others, and building trust across functions.
Exceptional communicator who simplifies the complex, influences decisions, and drives consensus among senior stakeholders.
Proactive innovator who anticipates needs, embraces change, and sets new standards for People Tech excellence.
Indicators of strong performance in this position are:
- Leads high-impact recruiting technology initiatives that improve recruiter experience, candidate experience, process efficiency, data quality, and downstream Workday connectivity.
- Successfully drives integrations between recruiting platforms and Workday, ensuring accurate data flow, strong testing discipline, clear ownership, and sustainable support model
- Successfully guides and delivers complex, stable, and impactful technology solutions at scale, ensuring seamless execution and timely support for cross-functional partners.
- Proactively drives alignment and collaboration across senior stakeholders, maintains clear communication and thorough documentation, and ensures lasting business value through robust training and adoption support.
- Establishes strong governance, prioritization, and operational practices that enable the People Tech team to scale effectively across recruiting and broader People technology needs

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration approximately two times per year and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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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

$120,321—$247,718 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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