S Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Measurement Products San Francisco, CA, US LLM machine learning

ContentBuffer; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a senior leader for the Measurement Products team in San Francisco, responsible for building ads measurement platforms and leading cross-functional engineers. You will set long-term technical direction and work with Product, Data Science, and Ads Engineering to deliver scalable, trustworthy systems.

You will mentor managers and engineers, champion AI-assisted development with strong data protection practices, and drive measurable advertiser impact across campaigns.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience building software, ML, or large-scale data systems.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience with ads measurement, ad effectiveness, or incrementality.
• Ability to set a compelling technical vision and roadmaps.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-powered productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers across ML, backend, and data.
• Set the technical vision and multi-year strategy for Measurement Products.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Ads Eng, and Infra to productionize solutions.
• Drive scalable ML and data platforms for measurement products.
• Influence roadmap to improve speed, scale, usability, and actionability.
• Partner with stakeholders to expand adoption and business impact.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and engineers.
• Champion AI-assisted development while ensuring validation and privacy.

Skills

Software development

Machine learning

Data systems

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

The Measurement Products team helps advertisers understand campaign effectiveness, quantify business impact, and make informed investment decisions. We build a portfolio of first- and third-party measurement solutions spanning incrementally, experimentation, brand outcomes, and other approaches to evaluating advertising performance.

We also develop the scalable platforms and capabilities that power these solutions, enabling faster innovation, support for evolving measurement methodologies, and integration with Pinterest’s broader ads, data, and experimentation ecosystems. Our mission is to deliver rigorous, privacy-conscious, and actionable measurement that strengthens advertiser confidence and improves business outcomes.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and grow a team of experienced ML, backend, and data engineers responsible for building innovative ads measurement products and platforms, including incrementality solutions, measurement diagnostics, anomaly detection, automated insights, and advertiser decision-support tools.
• Set the technical vision and multi-year engineering strategy for Measurement Products, translating advertiser needs and measurement methodologies into scalable, reliable, and trustworthy production systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Ads Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to develop and productionize causal inference, experimentation, and ad-effectiveness solutions without compromising methodological rigor.
• Drive the development of scalable ML and data platforms supporting first- and third-party measurement products, including conversion lift, brand lift, budget-split testing, matched-market testing, marketing mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, conversion APIs, and clean-room-based measurement.
• Influence the broader Ads Product and Engineering roadmap by identifying high-leverage opportunities to improve the speed, scale, usability, and actionability of Pinterest’s measurement offerings.
• Partner with stakeholders across Product Management, Data Science, Sales, and other functions to expand the adoption and business impact of Pinterest’s measurement products.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers, technical leaders, and engineers. Build an inclusive culture of technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion the effective use of AI-assisted development and LLM-powered tools to accelerate engineering, prototyping, experimentation, and analysis while maintaining rigorous standards for validation, explainability, data protection, and accountability.

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years of industry experience building software, ML, or large-scale data systems, with 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams responsible for production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience.
• Meaningful experience with ads measurement, ad effectiveness, or incrementally, including areas such as conversion lift, brand lift, budget-split testing, matched-market testing, MMM, MTA, conversion APIs, or clean-room-based measurement.
• Strong understanding of experimentation, causal inference, probabilistic modeling, or measurement using noisy, incomplete, or privacy-constrained data.
• Demonstrated ability to set a compelling technical vision, develop multi-year roadmaps, and drive scalable, production-quality systems from strategy through execution.
• Proven success partnering across Engineering, Product Management, Data Science, Infrastructure, and business teams to deliver measurable product and advertiser impact.
• Ability to make principled decisions and guide teams through trade-offs involving methodological rigor, product usability, system complexity, statistical power, data quality, privacy, and time to market.
• Experience establishing strong engineering practices for architecture, operational excellence, experimentation, evaluation, monitoring, and governance.
• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and high-performing engineers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and align teams across organizational boundaries.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-powered productivity tools to improve engineering and analytical workflows, paired with clear stan