Lead Client Partner, Financial Services

Pinterest; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest Canada is seeking a Lead Client Partner to drive strategic partnerships with our largest Financial Services clients across banking and insurance. You will work with a Client Account Manager to build trusted relationships and develop strategies that drive revenue growth and measurable business impact.

You’ll translate insights into action, lead senior discussions, and mobilize cross-functional teams to deliver full-funnel strategies.

Qualifications

• Executive presence and ability to influence stakeholders from practitioners to C‑suite leaders.
• Strong understanding of full-funnel digital advertising, media strategy and measurement.
• Experience managing agency and direct client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-quarter account strategies and joint business plans for Financial Services partnerships.
• Build trusted relationships across agency and direct client stakeholders at all levels.
• Drive revenue growth through pitches, renewals, expansions, and product adoption.
• Develop full-funnel media strategies spanning brand, consideration, conversion, and measurement.
• Lead executive-ready conversations, negotiations, escalations, and business reviews.
• Mobilize cross-functional teams to solve client, measurement, product, and commercial challenges.

Skills

Executive presence

Strategic storytelling

Cross-functional leadership

Full-funnel digital advertising

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Marketing or equivalent

Job description

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.

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.

As a Lead Client Partner at Pinterest, you will lead strategic partnerships with some of Pinterest Canada’s largest and most complex Financial Services clients across banking and insurance. Partnering closely with a Client Account Manager, you will build trusted relationships across agencies and direct client organizations, from practitioners to senior executives, and develop strategies that drive revenue growth, quality pipeline, product adoption, and measurable business impact.

You will serve as a strategic advisor to clients navigating complex business priorities, evolving media strategies, and multiple measurement sources of truth. You will move quickly to understand each account, identify opportunities for growth, mobilize internal partners, and connect Pinterest’s full-funnel solutions to client outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Lead multi-quarter account strategies and joint business plans for complex Financial Services partnerships.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships across agency and direct client stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives.
• Drive revenue growth through strategic pitches, renewals, expansions, quality pipeline development, and product adoption.
• Develop full-funnel media strategies spanning brand, consideration, conversion, and measurement solutions.
• Engage in robust media, creative, and measurement discussions
• Translate performance and measurement learnings into clear recommendations, test-and-learn agendas, and investment decisions.
• Partner closely with the CAM to create clear account coverage, operating rhythms, and accountability.
• Mobilize cross-functional teams to solve client, measurement, product, technical, creative, and commercial challenges.
• Lead executive-ready conversations, negotiations, escalations, and business reviews.

What We’re Looking For

• Meaningful experience in at least two of the following areas: Financial Services expertise, platform sales, and enterprise sales; experience across all three is highly valued.
• A track record of creating revenue growth, quality pipeline, and measurable change within complex accounts.
• Strong experience managing both agency and direct client relationships.
• Executive presence and the ability to influence stakeholders from junior practitioners through C‑suite leaders.
• Strong understanding of full-funnel digital advertising, media strategy, and measurement.
• Demonstrated ability to move quickly, operate with ambiguity, and make sound decisions with incomplete or conflicting information.
• Excellent strategic storytelling, commercial judgment, negotiation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• A collaborative, growth-oriented approach and the ability to use AI to accelerate preparation, analysis, and follow-through while maintaining accuracy and ownership of outcomes.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Marketing, or equivalent 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 recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 2 days per week (Wednesday + Thursday) and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from the Toronto office (85 Richmond St. W, Toronto).

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.