Data Scientist: AI-Driven Product Insights & Experiments

Pinterest; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to evolve the product by turning data into actionable insights that inspire Pinners and inform advertisers. You will quantify user behavior, measure impact, and partner with engineering and product to drive experiments.

This role involves building models, designing metrics, and communicating complex analyses to technical and non-technical teammates. US-based candidates only; base salary range and equity eligibility are provided in the posting.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, CS or related field.
• Fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R).
• Experience solving analytical problems using ML, statistical modeling, forecasting, econometrics or related fields.
• Excellent communication to explain learnings to technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product roadmap 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.
• Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster.
• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, collaborating with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers.

Skills

SQL

Python or R

ML / Statistical Modeling

Communication

Critical thinking with AI

Business impact analysis

Education

Master's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, CS or related field

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to evolve the product by turning data into actionable insights that inspire Pinners and inform advertisers. You will quantify user behavior, measure impact, and partner with engineering and product to drive experiments.

This role involves building models, designing metrics, and communicating complex analyses to technical and non-technical teammates. US-based candidates only; base salary range and equity eligibility are provided in the posting.