Staff Data Scientist, Pinterest
Metrics Quality
$148-304.5k
+ 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
$148-304.5k
+ 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 working with data to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
- Proven ability to identify and solve data integrity issues in real-world environments
- Expertise in at least one scripting language, ideally Python or R
- Proficiency in SQL/Hive, with a strong ability to manipulate and extract value from large datasets. Airflow and SparkSQL experience are also valuable
- Rigorous analytical skills, with a meticulous approach to validating results and ensuring data reliability
- Excellent communication skills, with proven experience leading initiatives across multiple product areas and effectively conveying findings to leadership and product teams
- Demonstrated leadership in managing key technical projects, significantly influencing the scope and enhancing the output of team efforts
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
- Analyze: Root causes of discrepancies in our critical externally reported and internally used metrics, and estimate the impact of data inaccuracies on our business decisions through deep-dives and strategic analyses
- You will work to establish a consistent ground truth for our data, thereby enhancing its integrity and trustworthiness
- Investigation Support: Serve as a key point of contact and final sign-off for resolution of data anomalies and inconsistencies
- Collaborate with client engineers and data warehouse teams to drive investigations, identify potential root causes and define success metrics for these inquiries
- Opportunity Sizing and Analysis: Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our metrics quality
- For example, quantify how much user activity is underestimated due to networking issues, and suggest how addressing these can enhance overall metric accuracy
- Data Controls: Develop and implement robust data quality checkers and alerts, ensuring they provide high signal without excess noise
- Streamline Communication: Partner with TPMs to ensure that quality issues and best practices are communicated effectively within the company
- This includes enhancing key processes such as SOX compliance and ensuring ML teams have access to the best data available
- Leadership: In this role, you’ll have the freedom to target opportunities you deem most critical and to set the strategic direction of the team
- Lead by example to identify priority areas and elevate your colleagues' data capabilities by sharing insights and best practices
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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