Staff Data Scientist, Curation Ecosystem

Pinterest is the world’s leading visual search and discovery platform, serving over 500 million monthly active users globally on their journey from inspiration to action. At Pinterest, Curation is a strategic initiative at the heart of the Pinner experience that enables pinners to create a life they love by discovering and curating their own taste. We do this through a combination of innovative product interfaces, and sophisticated recommendation systems that deliver both utility and delight to our Pinners.

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist with strong product sense, good product taste, and machine learning and statistics to help advance Curation at Pinterest. In your role you will develop methods and models to explain why certain content is being promoted (or not) for a Pinner, and you will work on cutting edge zero to one product bets. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, and be responsible for partnering with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, and more. You are expected to develop a deep understanding of Pinterest Trends, Pinner Needs, our recommendation system, and generate insights and robust methodologies to answer the “why”. The results of your work will influence our development teams, and drive product innovation.

What you’ll do:

• Build a deeper understanding of our Pinterest Curation ecosystem; understanding and quantifying the opportunities and Pinner needs around boards, trends, collages, and more.


• Develop robust frameworks, combining online and offline methods, to comprehensively understand the outputs of our recommendations.


• Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of product creation, development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of our Pinners.


• Work cross-functionally to build relationships, proactively communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest.


• Relentlessly focus on impact, whether through influencing product strategy, advancing our north star metrics, or improving a critical process.


• Mentor and up-level junior data scientists on the team.

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data


• Strong interest and experience in recommendation systems and causal inference


• Strong quantitative programming (Python/R) and data manipulation skills (SQL/Spark)


• Ability to work independently and drive your own projects


• Excellent written and communication skills, and able to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners


• A team player eager to partner with cross-functional partners to quickly turn insights into actions


• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, or equivalent experience.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.


• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.