Staff Data Scientist, Pinterest
Marketing Science
$163.1-335.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163.1-335.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- MS or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience applying data science to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
- Domain expertise about ads platforms and products, particularly around measurement and performance
- Strong fundamentals in statistics, particularly experimentation and causal inference
- Proficiency in common data science coding languages such as SQL and Python
- Proven track record of driving data science projects and/or initiatives in a cross-functional team including both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication skills. Explains work and thought processes clearly, concisely and convincingly
What the job involves
- As Pinterest continues to scale, we need insightful analyses and actionable recommendations to help maximize value to both Pinners and advertisers.
- Tasked with such vision, we are looking for data scientists to jump start Pinterest’s Marketing Science team.
- You will take end-to-end ownership of designing, researching, building, and delivering data products as well as collaborate with XFNs to formulate, experiment, and evolve Pinterest’s best practice guides to advertiser performance.
- You will support strategic planning, marketing events, earnings releases, and other efforts with powerful data narratives
- Research and analyze what drives performance on our platform for advertisers
- Monitor key trends in ads performance to identify and scale platform-level improvement opportunities and/or flag and mitigate risks of reduction
- Equip the business with data-backed recommendations that deliver the strongest performance outcomes, tailored to key advertiser segments, defined by dimensions including marketing objective, campaign type or measurement source of truth, etc
- Creating and tracking metrics around advertiser value. Identify the right framework to quantify the value Pinterest provides to advertisers, and drive XFN alignment on implement and monitor those metrics as north stars of success
- Improve decision velocity and quality using data scientist tool kit: experimentation, causal inference techniques, etc. Design measurement strategy, advise on experimentation best practices, identifying flaws in experiment practices and results; building tools for experiment analysis etc
- Leadership: Lead and mentor the scope of work for data scientists in the same area, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you are responsible. Provide continuous and candid feedback, recognizing individual strengths and contributions and flagging opportunities to improve performance
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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