Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco, CAPalo Alto, CASeattle
- Salary
- $164,695–$339,078 / yr
- Posted
- 7 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $152,575–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $252k versus about $204k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 82 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$337,990 across 82 roles with salary data.
Most-posted roles
- Software Engineer 18
- Machine Learning Engineer 11
- Data Scientist 8
- Technical Program Manager 6
- Product Manager 5
At a glance
TL;DR · Staff Data Scientist, Ads Delivery
Staff Data Scientist, Ads Delivery joins the Ads Delivery team to shape both people-facing and business-facing products. This role involves developing a nuanced understanding of ads delivery by quantifying full funnel opportunities and risks while leading projects across various funnel stages. The successful candidate will design and productionize robust, scalable machine learning and evaluation frameworks covering forecasting, recommendation, and causal inference. They will also advocate for best-in-class experimentation, instrumentation, and metric design to bridge the gap between short-term proxies and long-term business impact. Required skills include expertise in machine learning, statistical modeling, and causal inference using Python, R, SQL, and Spark. The role focuses on solving complex engineering challenges within the ads delivery domain by translating complex data questions into actionable insights while mentoring other scientists to ensure technical excellence across the organization.
What does a Data Scientist earn in California?
Median $208978 from 66 postings across 27 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Quantify full funnel opportunities and risks within the Pinterest ads delivery system.
- Lead projects focused on identifying and optimizing ads delivery across various funnel stages.
- Design and productionize scalable ML frameworks for forecasting, recommendation, and causal inference.
- Establish best-in-class experimentation, instrumentation, and metric designs to align with long-term business goals.
- Translate complex data questions into actionable insights for cross-functional product and engineering teams.
- Mentor junior and senior scientists to foster technical excellence and intellectual curiosity.
What we're looking for
- Must have 10+ years of hands-on experience in web-scale data environments solving complex problems in product, engagement, or ecosystem analytics.
- Requires deep expertise in Machine Learning including recommendation, ranking, prediction, and experimentation.
- Requires advanced knowledge of Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Product Analytics strategy.
- Must be proficient in programming with Python or R and possess advanced SQL/Spark skills.
- Must have a track record of mentoring and growing data talent at the senior and staff levels.
- Must demonstrate strong product intuition to design solutions for ill-defined, high-impact business problems.
- Must possess exceptional communication skills to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience.
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