Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is seeking a Workforce Management professional for the role of Program Manager II in Workforce Capacity Planning. This role involves owning real-time, short-term, and long-term capacity planning for specialized cross-functional teams, requiring collaboration across various departments to support user safety and platform integrity.
Responsibilities
- Manage and process capacity requests received through Jira from XFN teams
- Track and continuously update headcounts by team, location, and skillset for both internal and BPO staff
- Perform demand analysis, ensuring an understanding of volume and AHT fluctuations and changes
- Create and update week-over-week capacity plans to allocate staff to forecasted demand, flagging any gaps in coverage, and providing recommendations to solve
- Utilize excess staff by maintaining a steady pipeline of ad-hoc work
- In partnership with the Vendor Management teams, work directly with our BPOs to align on productivity and scheduling expectations
- Queue governance: ensure queues are categorized correctly and assigned to the correct skill groups, making changes and updates as needed
- Provide live-monitoring of BPO throughput and real-time WFM support during incidents and escalations, as well as in XFN slack channels
- Attend XFN meetings and weekly BPO business reviews, capturing relevant content to share out with the broader WFM team
- Present capacity updates to leadership and XFNs
- Log incidents and issues affecting staffing and workload
- Support the annual budget process by creating long-range staff plans 1+ year out
- Run capacity and footprint scenarios to increase efficiency and optimize staff / cost
- Adjust the AHT forecast based on staff tenure & skill level
- Perform RCA of variance to capacity forecast and misses in productivity and TAT targets
- Align BPO schedules to daily and interval-level demand
- Leverage our AI tools to design, accelerate, and simplify processes
- Other duties as assigned to support the WFM function
Skills
- 4+ years of Workforce Management experience, specifically in short-term and long-term capacity planning for back-office / non-voice operational teams
- 4+ years of process management and improvement experience
- Thorough understanding of capacity math (turning workload into FTE requirements), and workforce metrics (AHT, Shrinkage, TAT, MAPE, Occupancy, etc.)
- Proficiency Google Suite: docs, sheets, charts, complex formulas, connecting and importing data
- Meticulous attention to detail is required to maintain a high bar of quality
- Comfortable and confident presenting in front of leadership and large audiences + working directly with BPOs
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and maintain high productivity in a startup environment where tools and processes are not yet established
- Proficiency in Slack functionality with ability to manage intraday requests and communications from a large number of slack channels
- Situational task management skills: able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment while pivoting quickly to changing priorities
- Experience with backlog forecasting
- Trust & Safety experience
- WFM real-time / live support experience
- SQL
- Experience working in Zendesk
Benefits
- 100% Remote US
- W2 Contract through end of the year- high potential to be extended or converted to FTE
Company Overview
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.pinterest.com/.