Data Science Manager, Pinterest
Shopper
$148-304.5k
+ Equity
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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
$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
- MS or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent experience
- Experience in managing teams of data scientists, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Hands on experience as a data scientist, algorithmic engineer, or machine learning engineer in a technology company
- Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with hypothesis driven product development
- Experience being a thought partner to improve decision quality and able to influence with expertise
- Market experience in retail or e-commerce, experience in building consumer tech products with a heavy emphasis on user experience, and experience working with personalization and recommendations teams to improve ML & AI systems
What the job involves
- Shopping is one of Pinterest’s biggest product bets, a massive focus area for the exec team, and has cutting edge innovation on both the front end and back end of the product
- You will work with world class data science talent in measuring, understanding, and building the next generation of shopping products for pinners
- You can become a leader of leaders, developing a best in-class team of technical data scientists
- The team is responsible for new and existing end-to-end shopping experiences across the platform, touching every major surface and part of the tech stack. Each of them brings its own complexity and challenges which will provide exposure to a wide variety of data science problems to solve
- Build, inspire and grow a high performance team of data scientists that are thought partners to the team that builds Pinner facing Shopping Experiences
- Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of key business metrics and the ability to leverage data insights to drive growth and achieve tangible business outcomes
- Work with product and eng partners help identify and answer important “why” questions. Lead the team to structure ambiguous business challenges into actionable plans. Ensure that your team is producing consistently trustworthy and high-quality technical outputs that influence the business. Drive data-driven decision-making aligned with the organization's strategic objectives
- Communicate complex analytical findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Be a champion for building highly talented and diverse teams with an inclusive culture
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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