Data Scientist, Pinterest
Master's University Grad
$125-168k
+ equity
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Be an early applicant
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$125-168k
+ equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science or related field
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R)
- Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners
- Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability
- Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems, in order to impact business performance
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Data Scientist to help evolve and shape the future of our product -- inspiring Pinners and connecting them with actionable content, understanding advertisers and measuring the value Pinterest provides to them, and enabling our employees to evaluate potential product changes faster than ever before
- You’ll apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques, modeling and data mining while working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners
- The results of your work will influence the team roadmap, identify actionable product opportunities, refine our experimentation platform, and drive key initiatives, turning your insights and analyses into real-world products
- Contribute to our product roadmap and mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love - using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends, and identify opportunities for product innovation
- Design and implement core metrics that guide the team efforts and help design and evaluate A/B experiments that drive these metrics
- Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster
- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest
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 X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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