This role pays more than
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$209,662–$270,500
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$240k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.
Pinterest currently has
27 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$177,185–$339,078
across 27 roles with salary data.
As Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Measurement, you will lead a high-performing organization of managers and senior technical leaders to define the technical direction for the advertiser measurement and signal-quality ecosystem. You will oversee multi-year investments across Interfaces, Ingestion, User Match, and Conversion Quality while translating complex business challenges into scalable machine learning, data platform, and infrastructure solutions. The role involves managing cross-team design reviews, shared metrics, and launch governance while collaborating with Product, Data Science, Privacy, and Legal teams. You will navigate technical requirements involving large-scale data processing, identity, and signal quality in an environment demanding high reliability and privacy standards. Key technical areas include probabilistic matching, graph systems, anomaly detection, event-quality modeling, confidence scoring, and real-time or streaming systems to solve critical problems regarding advertiser measurement and signal availability.
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