Machine Learning Manager, Pinterest
Search Retrieval
$166.7-342.8k
+equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Job no longer available
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$166.7-342.8k
+equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in leading and managing large-scale production systems, such as search, recommendation, or advertising platforms, utilizing advanced machine learning and big data technologies
- Strong background in applied machine learning; familiarity with recommendation systems, natural language processing, and computer vision is highly desirable
- Demonstrated ability to define and drive the strategic roadmap for scalable, production-quality systems from concept to execution
- Strong focus on product impact and user experience within a consumer-focused environment
- Minimum of 2 years of experience managing a high-performing machine learning engineering team of 10+ members
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions
What the job involves
- The Search Retrieval team is focused on making Pinterest searches fast, personalized, and relevant for the billions of monthly searches
- We seek an exceptional technical leader and engineering manager for this team who can drive cross-team engineering efforts to deliver ML-driven product experiences to our Pinners
- This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects, build large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and significantly impact our Pinners and business metrics
- Be responsible for major areas of search quality for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users. Potential areas of impact include query understanding, semantic relevance, search engagement, and retrieval
- Deeply understand the Pinterest search product and drive the vision for the search relevance team, ensuring the team’s work directly contributes to the company’s goals
- Manage and mentor a team of Machine Learning engineers, providing guidance and support to help them grow their careers. Identify team needs and hire strong candidates
- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams at Pinterest to enhance the search experience for users, including Search Product, Infrastructure, research, and content signals
- Provide visibility to senior leadership regarding the team’s global impact
- Partner with stakeholders across the company, including product management, data scientists, and design, to expand impact
- Build a culture of excellence and expertise within the team
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
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