• by Colin Kirkland , Yesterday

Pinterest has hired Julie Henderson -- a former communications leader at both Snap and 21st Century Fox -- as the social-media company’s new vice president and chief communications officer. 

Having overseen communications operations at major organizations for the past 30 years,  Henderson will now bring her experience to Pinterest, responsible for leading communications across the company’s corporate, product, policy, financial, consumer, international, and internal sectors. 

Henderson will become the newest leadership appointee at Pinterest amid a recent executive overhaul. In January, the company hired former DoorDash and Spotify executive Lee Brown as its first-ever chief business officer and former Amazon marketing executive Claudine Cheever as its chief marketing officer. 

Moving forward, Henderson will report to Cheever and work alongside Pinterest CEO Bill Ready and the executive team. 

“She's spent three decades guiding the biggest names in tech and media through defining moments, most recently at Snap,” Cheever wrote in a LinkedIn post, adding in a statement to Axios that Henderson has navigated “complex policy landscapes, major business transformations, and high-stakes narratives.”

With the departure of Pinterest’s longtime chief revenue officer, Bill Watkins, and the upcoming departure of Malik Ducard -- the company’s chief content officer -- in July, Ready is constructing a new leadership team for the AI era. 

At Pinterest, Henderson will be in charge of devising the company’s narrative around this ongoing shift, taking on the role of automation in the digital world of professional connections and job discovery opportunities, while also dictating the platform’s evolving approach to global issues, like social media bans and teen safety.

During her 7 years at Snap, Henderson dealt directly with pressure from regulatory groups, governments, and watchdogs regarding teen safety. 

Henderson will enter her new role at Pinterest on July 18, replacing former Pinterest CCO Caroline Nolan, with Russ Caditz-Peck filling her former position at Snap.