Staff Data Scientist, Ads Delivery

Pinterest

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Remote

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

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $204k
This role $252k
$128k most similar roles pay here $362k

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

View all roles at Pinterest

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.

See salary data

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.

More like this

Similar roles

Staff Data Scientist, Ads

Reddit

Remote 179 days ago $217,000$303,900
Python R SQL Machine Learning Statistical Modeling A/B Testing Causal Inference Experimental Design Data Science Optimization Identity Resolution Attribution Predictive Modeling
10+ yrs exp Remote

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery

Pinterest

San Francisco, CA +2 7 days ago $314,580$550,515
Machine Learning Statistics SQL LLM Cursor Copilot Codex Software Engineering Backend Systems Computational Advertising Data Exploration Auction Mechanism Design
10+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Data Scientist, Marketing

Pinterest

Remote 7 days ago $139,764$287,749
Python R SQL Hive Machine Learning Causal Inference ETL Experimentation Analytics Feature Engineering
6+ yrs exp Remote

Senior Data Scientist, Ads

Reddit

Remote 30 days ago $190,800$267,100
Machine Learning Statistical Modeling Causal Inference Experimental Design A/B Testing Python R SQL scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch Spark Hadoop Hive BigQuery Relational Databases
5+ yrs exp Remote

Senior Data Scientist

Apple Inc

New York, NY 89 days ago $150,400$277,600
SQL Python Machine Learning Statistical Modeling Causal Inference Experimentation Forecasting Time Series Analysis Econometrics Optimization Data Science Analytics