Senior Manager of Machine Learning Engineering, Pinterest
Representation Learning
$200.1-411.6k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200.1-411.6k
+ Offers equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying state-of-the-art ML technologies to solve real-world problems on web-scale data; 2+ years of management experience
- Demonstrated execution and impact on initiatives that cross multiple product areas and interface with leadership and product teams with a track record of influencing leaders and peers using data
- Experience mentoring and up-leveling other software engineers and machine learning engineers
- Self-propelled continuous learner who keeps up with new tools and methodologies and builds prototypes with concepts learned
- Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined projects and success metrics that drive business decisions
- Excellent communication skills: able to communicate findings with leadership and product teams, and track record of publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields
What the job involves
- We're looking for a highly technical engineering manager with a deep understanding of representation learning to manage, lead and develop a team of machine learning researchers and engineers that are under the Applied Science team; an individual who can help the team build a portfolio of work which can balance both long term need and short term need of the business; and who can partner with senior leaders to evolve our team’s roadmap and help us fulfill our mission of bringing Pinterest’s mission
- Manage, lead, and develop a talented sub-team of machine learning researchers and engineers specializing in representation learning
- Partner with your team to define the sub-team's charter, ensuring it prioritizes both cutting-edge research and building foundational embeddings that benefit various products across Pinterest
- Champion the use of state-of-the-art representation learning techniques to create efficient and effective embeddings
- Advocate for high quality decision-making and challenge decisions with highly biased data; bring a justified view of the trade-off between rigor and velocity
- Collaborate with data scientists and product partners to prototype, build and scale solutions to key challenges across Pinterest engineering teams
- Partner with leaders in the company to deepen user understanding and help set the strategic direction of our representation learning roadmap
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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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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