Data Science Internship, Pinterest

Masters Only

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The salary for this position is 10,000 monthly

SQL
Python
R
San Francisco Bay Area

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

The salary for this position is 10,000 monthly

SQL
Python
R
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Role

Who you are

  • Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science or related field
  • Experience using SQL and Python or R
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to tell a complete narrative using data
  • Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems, in order to impact business performance
  • This role applies only to students currently enrolled in a school or education program

What the job involves

  • Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. 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
  • We’re looking for Data Science interns 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
  • We offer a 12-week summer internship program in our San Francisco or Seattle office
  • Influence and evolve our product roadmap to help us fulfill our 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 serve as the north stars for 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
  • Help gather explicit signals about Pinner, Merchant, Creator, or Advertiser preferences and tastes using survey methodologies and statistical/modeling based approaches
  • 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 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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Kirsty

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9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

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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