Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

Pinterest

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$164,695–$339,078 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

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This role $252k
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $149,502–$230,825 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $252k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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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 76 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $177,185–$339,078 across 70 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

The Staff Data Scientist, Notifications joins the Notifications team to develop measurement frameworks and metrics that optimize the full user journey. This role involves performing deep analysis to identify growth strategy improvements, sizing opportunities, and communicating actionable recommendations to product and engineering leadership. You will serve as a thought partner to prioritize projects, improve machine learning models powering notification delivery and content, and mentor other data scientists. Key responsibilities include iterating on user products via A/B experimentation and shaping vague questions into well-defined success metrics. Required technical skills include proficiency in SQL, Hive, and at least one scripting language like Python or R. Candidates must possess a strong background in statistics, machine learning, and experimentation to solve real-world problems using web-scale data.

What does a Data Scientist earn in Remote?

Median $216300 from 36 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decisions across the full user journey.
  • Analyze and communicate recommendations to leadership on how to evolve the notifications strategy.
  • Perform opportunity sizing and analysis to identify areas for improvement in growth strategies.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and ML leadership to prioritize and scope projects for the notifications team.
  • Improve machine learning models for notification delivery and content through direct contributions and new features.
  • Translate vague business questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics.
  • Lead technical projects and influence the scope and output of cross-functional teams.
  • Mentor other data scientists to ensure high-quality output across the team.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data.
  • Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation.
  • Expertise in at least one scripting language, ideally Python or R.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Hive.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams to iterate on products via A/B experimentation.
  • Experience leading technical projects and influencing the scope and output of others.
  • Strong business and product sense to translate vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

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