Bill Watkins

Bill Watkins (@wewiv) is the Head of Global Mid Market & Small Business Sales at Pinterest. His teams work closely with internal ads product, ads measurement, and marketing teams to create scalable advertising tools and business solutions. His teams also work with medium & small business clients, as to solve partner business challenges, and accelerate revenue growth. Bill also serves as the site lead for the Pinterest Chicago office.

Previously, Bill was US Head of Large Customer Sales at Pinterest, responsible for the Retail, Finance, Tech, & Travel industry sales teams. Bill was one of the first 250 employees at Pinterest & founder of the Pinterest Chicago office. Starting w/ the company pre-monetization, Bill helped to recruit & hire the initial sales team, as well as develop sales & go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining Pinterest in 2014, Bill held multiple leadership positions at Demand Media & Yahoo.

Bill attended Miami University and lives in Chicago.