Data Scientist, AI-Driven Product Analytics

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to evolve and shape the future of our product by turning insights into real features that inspire users and advertisers. You will apply quantitative analysis, ML, and statistics while collaborating with engineers and product partners to drive experimentation and product decisions.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, scalable analyses, and impacting business performance across multiple teams in a hybrid, US-based setup.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science or related field.
• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R)
• experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners
• Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems, in order to impact business performance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our product roadmap and mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love - using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends, and identify opportunities for product innovation.
• Design and implement core metrics that guide the team efforts and help design and evaluate A/B experiments that drive these metrics.
• Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster.
• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Machine Learning

Statistical Modeling

Data Analysis

Communication

Education

PhD in statistics, mathematics, economics, or related field

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to evolve and shape the future of our product by turning insights into real features that inspire users and advertisers. You will apply quantitative analysis, ML, and statistics while collaborating with engineers and product partners to drive experimentation and product decisions.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, scalable analyses, and impacting business performance across multiple teams in a hybrid, US-based setup.