Compliance Lead

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Role Purpose The Compliance Lead will play a pivotal role in promoting Pinterest’s strong culture of compliance and ethics. The successful candidate will own the management, operation, and maturation of Pinterest’s Corporate Compliance and Ethics programs and related policies; support third party risk management, regulatory monitoring, and compliance-related internal investigations; and work as a highly effective partner across global teams. This role will drive compliance operations initiatives including risk assessments, self-service resources, monitoring, testing, and Board reporting, while leveraging approved AI and automation tools to streamline processes. What you’ll do: Be responsible for management, operation, and maturation of Pinterest’s Corporate Compliance and Ethics programs and related policies, including conflicts of interest, policy management and oversight, training and awareness, records and information management, standard setting, control management, and monitoring activities. Assist with third party risk management, including sanctions and restricted-country screening, third party reviews, and gifts and hospitality. Identify, assess, document, and escalate, as needed, potential compliance risks and issues, including working with appropriate stakeholders to implement mitigation measures. Design and conduct risk assessments by gathering information, documenting findings, and tracking approved mitigation actions. Support regulatory monitoring efforts — tracking new and evolving requirements across US, EU, LATAM and APAC and working with subject matter experts to translate them into actionable guidance for the business. Maintain and improve self-service compliance resources, including policies, procedures, process flows, trackers, evidence repositories, and the internal compliance knowledge hub. Assist with and, as appropriate, conduct compliance-related internal investigations. Support periodic monitoring, control testing, compliance audits, and preparation of concise reports and management updates, including Board reporting across all Compliance programs. Identify and drive opportunities to use approved AI-enabled tools and workflow automation to streamline compliance processes, while maintaining appropriate human review, data protection, and auditability. Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Human Resources, Finance, Product, and Engineering on compliance-related matters Anticipate needs, solve problems proactively, and constantly look for ways to maximize efficiency and impact What we’re looking for: Minimum 5 years of experience building and maintaining compliance and ethics, sanctions, AML/KYC, third-party risk, risk management program(s). Experience using GRC, workflow, or case-management systems (e.g., learning management syst