Experiential Lead

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.

Requirements:

• 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.

What the job involves:

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.

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.

• 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.