Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

About Pinterest:

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. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

What you’ll do:

• 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.
  
  

What we’re looking for:

• 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.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 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.

 

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

 

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration1-2 times per half and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

 

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only$163,064—$335,720 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. 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.