Experiential Lead

Description

We’re looking for an Experiential Lead to join the team within the House of Creative, Pinterest’s in-house creative team. Our team brings the Pinterest brand to life through events, experiences, and programming. In this role, you’ll lead the development and execution of high-impact experiential programs that drive comprehension of Pinterest, deepen brand love, and build advocacy for Pinterest as a content, advertising, and shopping platform.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be a senior experiential leader with deep production expertise, strong creative instincts, and the ability to confidently lead large, complex, high-visibility programs from concept through execution. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and bring the judgment, presence, and leadership needed to navigate ambiguity, drive alignment, and deliver exceptional work at scale.

What you’ll do

• Lead large-scale experiential programs end-to-end, from strategy, concepting, and planning through production, on-site execution, post-event debriefs, and reconciliation; ensuring every touchpoint aligns to key messaging, brand standards, and business goals.
• Lead some of the team’s most complex and high-visibility programs, including major tentpoles, executive-facing moments, and multi-market activations.
• Establish and uphold a high bar for creative and executional excellence, helping teams and partners deliver distinctive, high-quality, on-brand experiences.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Comms, Policy, and other teams to shape attendee journeys, uncover insights, and translate business and brand priorities into impactful activations.
• Manage agencies, vendors, project teams, timelines, budgets, and workstreams across complex programs with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Oversee production craft across key elements including venues, fabrication, staging, technical production, activations, merchandise, partnerships, logistics, and on-site operations.
• Own and manage complex, multi-million-dollar budgets, ensuring strong decision-making, accountability, and stewardship across scope, cost, time, and quality.
• Build clarity and alignment across large cross-functional working teams, driving momentum, resolving issues, and surfacing risks and trade-offs early.
• Present plans, concepts, and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including executive audiences, with clarity, confidence, and strong strategic rationale.
• Help lead project teams or pods by setting direction, coordinating resources, and supporting strong collaboration across disciplines and regions.
• Mentor and support teammates where needed, sharing expertise and raising the overall capability of the team.
• Leverage AI tools to improve planning, efficiency, and operational effectiveness, while helping build smarter and more scalable ways of working.
• Collaborate regularly with global teams, with a particular focus on US-based partners; flexibility to work adjusted hours up to three days per week during peak program planning periods is required.

What we’re looking for

• Proven track record leading large-scale experiential programs that translate product and brand stories into impactful activations.
• Significant experience delivering complex, high-visibility events or experiences with multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and external partners.
• Strong experience managing multi-million-dollar production budgets, agency scopes, timelines, vendors, and reconciliation.
• Deep, hands-on production knowledge across experiential disciplines, with strong judgment on feasibility, trade-offs, executional risk, and live-event operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex programs across multiple markets or regions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working directly with senior leaders and navigating competing priorities with confidence and sound judgment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders through plans, recommendations, and decisions.
• A strong creative point of view and the ability to shape standout, on-brand experiences that are strategically grounded and beautifully executed.
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams and creating alignment across diverse disciplines, working styles, and time zones.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, solving problems proactively, and driving decisions in fast-moving environments.
• Confidence using AI tools in day-to-day work to improve efficiency, performance, and outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or equivalent industry experience.

Relocation Statement:

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

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 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from our London office.
• Due to global collaboration across timezones, flexibility for adjusted hours up to three days per week across peak project planning periods is required.

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