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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$164,695–$337,990
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Staff Product Manager, Applied Science joins the Applied Sciences team to shape the next chapter of the company's AI/ML platform. This role focuses on core areas including representation learning, signals, and recommender systems to power personalized discovery. You will define product vision, roadmaps, and strategies for shared infrastructure such as embedding platforms, feature stores, and ranking systems. Day-to-day responsibilities involve partnering with science, engineering, and research teams to translate technical roadmaps into product bets, manage modeling tradeoffs, and ensure sustainable scale across high-traffic surfaces. The role requires expertise in machine learning, experiment design, model architecture, and infrastructure costs. You will navigate complex trade-offs between innovation and platform health while managing the lifecycle of shared systems used by internal engineering teams to support retrieval, ranking, and ads across the platform's various products.
What does a Product Manager earn in California?
Median $223300 from 163 postings across 44 companies.
Machine Learning
Recommendation Systems
LLM
Generative AI
NLP
Data Science
Agentic Workflows
Embeddings
Web-scale Data
Research to Production
ML Research
Remote (Palo Alto, CA)+17 days ago
$242,634–$499,541
AI/ML Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Generative AI
Recommender Systems
C++
Java
Rust
Data Orchestration
Model Training
Fine-tuning
Inference
Feature Stores
Multimodal Data Management