Scaling goals from 15 to 2,000 employees at Pinterest.
Perhaps you’ve heard of Pinterest - a leading social media platform that inspires users with the biggest dataset of ideas assembled: over 100 billion recipes, home hacks, style inspiration, and other ideas to try. But have you heard of OKRs — objectives and key results — as a goal-setting framework? While a nifty solution, Pinterest needed a way to scale the strategy they selected when they were a 15-person startup to seamlessly fit the needs of more than 2,000 employees. Together, we evolved their small team tooling to a scaleable enterprise solution.
Challenge
- Google Docs and Google Sheets that were not scaling.
- Grew from 15 to 2,000 employees (and many more initiatives).
- Employees wanted a more intuitive tool for seeing their own goals, team leads transparency into progress, and leadership one place to understand the business's health.
Solution
- Coda and Pinterest co-created a Pyramid OKR Tracker to house all OKRs in one place.
- Executives, Pillar Leads, Team Leads, and individuals have their own views of the same goals, and can track monthly status updates.
- Automations — like Slack reminders — to keep things running smoothly.
Impact
Pinterest’s EPD org achieved their goals for increasing transparency, efficiency, and stability after rolling out the Pyramid OKR Tracker.
Faster updates and less admin overhead, particularly for Team Leads, means that Pinterest saved an estimated $92,000 in effort each quarter.
After the success within EPD, this new way of scaling OKRs has spread to other departments like Marketing, People, and Sales, beginning to unify Pinterest under one OKR framework.
Learn more: Pinterest’s Pyramid OKR Tracker
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