Staff Data Scientist, Pinterest
Notifications
$174.2-304.5k
+ Equity
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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
$174.2-304.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
- Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation
- Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R)
- Proficiency in SQL/Hive
- Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions
- Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams through compelling data narratives
- Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, iterating on a user product via A/B experimentation
- Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
Desirable
- Experience with ranking or recommender algorithms
- Statistical rigor. Experience with causal inference projects
- Experience working with ML teams and developing Overall Evaluation Criteria to drive decision making
- Experience working in a Growth function
- Experience working with user research to complement learnings from data science methods
What the job involves
- In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward
- You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet
- Product recommendations. Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our Notifications strategy to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis
- Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey
- Opportunity sizing and analysis. Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies
- Thought partner to product, engineering, and ML leadership on the Notifications team to prioritize/scope projects and inform the development of the notifications user experience and corresponding ML systems
- Improve machine learning models which power notifications delivery and content, via direct contributions, new features/signals, and/or compelling analyses
- Leadership: Lead and mentor the scope of work for at least 2 other data scientists, 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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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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