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About the Role
As a Data Scientist in the Core organization - Trust and Safety + Content Quality, you will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products at Pinterest. Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms will solve complex engineering challenges. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners on product and business problems, influencing product development and introducing scientific rigor into real-world products serving hundreds of millions of users globally. The core mandate is to evolve the organization from reactive moderation to a proactive, metrics-driven operating system that manages leading indicators to predict risk, improve understanding quality, and keep Pinterest safe, inspiring, and useful.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep, nuanced understanding of the Pinterest trust and safety platform, quantifying full funnel opportunities and risks.
- Lead projects on Trust and Safety opportunities across different funnel stages.
- Design and productionize robust, scalable ML and evaluation frameworks—spanning statistical measurement, product recommendation, and forecasting.
- Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate them to product engineering teams.
- Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to product creation, development, and improvement challenges.
- Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale.
- Develop comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.
- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to build the next experiences on Pinterest.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data.
- Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields.
- A scientifically rigorous approach to analysis and data, with a well-tuned sense of skepticism, attention to detail, and commitment to high-quality, results-oriented output.
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity.
- Fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners.
- A team player able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- US based applicants only.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
- Forecasting
- Econometrics
- SQL
- Python
- R
Location
- Remote (US-based)
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid (1-2 times/quarter in office)
Experience Level
- Minimum 10 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $164,695—$339,078 USD
Benefits
- Eligible for equity
About the Company
- Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.
- At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
- Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.
- At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
Equal Opportunity
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.