Data Scientist, Pinterest
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience working with / analyzing data
- Technical background or relevant work experience in Trust & Safety, Fraud, Spam, Investigations, or Cyber
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python or R)
- Basic knowledge of machine learning lifecycle and experience with implementing or improving machine learning models
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to cross-functional stakeholders
What the job involves
- The Trust & Safety team is dedicated to ensuring that all Pinners have a safe experience on Pinterest.
- This includes tackling challenging adversarial problems at scale, detecting policy-violating content, and ensuring Pinterest is legally-compliant.
- We’re looking for an analyst to analyze data and create strong signals and strategies to minimize abuse on the platform.
- This is a high-visibility role that touches almost every product area at Pinterest
- Protect users on Pinterest from bad actors and problematic trends
- Analyze intelligence sources to scope problems and identify monitoring strategies
- Prototype proactive detection and monitoring solutions
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Policy and Operations to devise and execute on new strategies for combating abuse on Pinterest
- Make actionable recommendations to Product, Policy, Operations, and Engineering to improve Pinterest’s Trust & Safety ecosystem
- Standardize and automate workflows to scale existing processes
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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