Senior Manager of Machine Learning, Pinterest
Homefeed Candidate Generation
$206.5-361k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Job no longer available
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$206.5-361k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and working on a large-scale production recommendation, search or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology
- Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning experience is required. Natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus
- Ability to drive the roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end
- A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product
- 5+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 15+ size; 12+ years of software development experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional senior machine learning engineering manager to help lead the Homefeed candidate generation team located in Palo Alto
- The candidate will be responsible for major areas of the Homefeed retrieval system for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users, including indexing and first layer ranking, query composition and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos, as well as infrastructure efficiency and scalability
- In addition, the candidate will work on innovative applications of embedding based retrieval and other techniques to drive content generation and personalization
- Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior Homefeed experience to our users, such as Homefeed Product, Infrastructure, research and content signals
- Deeply understand the Pinterest product, and drive the vision for the team
- Provide visibility for senior leadership into the team’s global impact
- Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company, including product management, data scientists and design
- Mentor and grow managers, leaders and engineers on the team
- Build a culture of excellence and expertise
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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Founders
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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