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Samir Pradhan is an experienced product management leader currently serving as Vice President and Head of Ads (Monetization) at Pinterest since July 2021. In this role, Samir oversees the Product Management organization focused on Ads. Previously, Samir held positions at Google from April 2013 to March 2021, including Director of Product Management responsible for Google Ads, YouTube Monetization, and Google Workspace. Samir's career began at Microsoft Corporation, where from 2007 to 2013, Samir was a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Core Relevance team in Bing, working on features aimed at enhancing search relevance. Samir also has experience as a Software Design Engineer in Test at ATI, and as an intern at CIBC. Samir holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.