Staff Data Scientist, Pinterest
Ads Delivery
$164.7-339.1k
+ 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
$164.7-339.1k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in web-scale data environments, with a track record of solving hard, ambiguous problems in product, engagement, or ecosystem analytics
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Deep expertise in: Machine Learning (recommendation, ranking, prediction, experimentation), Statistical Modeling & Causal Inference (observational and experimental data), Product analytics/strategy (beyond dashboards: root cause, goaling, design collaboration), Programming in Python/R and advanced SQL/Spark
- Strong product intuition—ability to scope, question, and design the right solutions for ill-defined, high-impact business problems
- Scientific rigor and healthy skepticism: You challenge assumptions, find flaws, and drive towards robust, reproducible outcomes
- Exceptional communication: You make the complex simple, and can influence both technical and non-technical audiences
- Track record mentoring and growing data talent at the staff/senior IC level
- Cross-functional leadership and the ability to align competing interests towards shared goals
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist for our Ads Delivery
- You will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest
- Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation and algorithms will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company
- You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Product Analytics, Data Engineering and others
- The results of your work will influence and uplevel our product development teams while introducing greater scientific rigor into the real world products serving hundreds of millions of pinners, creators, advertisers and merchants around the world
- Develop a deep, nuanced understanding of the Pinterest ads delivery, quantifying full funnel opportunities and risks
- Lead projects on:
- Pinner LTV
- Tradeoff between ads and organic engagement
- Ads Delivery opportunities across different funnel stages
- Design and productionize robust, scalable ML and evaluation frameworks—spanning forecasting, recommendation, and causal inference
- Advocate for best-in-class experimentation, instrumentation, and metric design; bridge the gap between short-term proxy metrics and long-term business impact
- Collaborate across disciplines—Product, Engineering, Research, Business, and Design—translating complex data questions into actionable business insights
- Mentor and guide junior and senior scientists, fostering intellectual curiosity and driving technical excellence
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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