Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan for lasting memories. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to develop measurement frameworks, communicate strategies for notifications, and mentor other data scientists.
Responsibilities
- Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey
- Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our Notifications strategy to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis
- Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies
- Thought partner to product, engineering, and ML leadership on the Notifications team to prioritize/scope projects and inform the development of the notifications user experience and corresponding ML systems
- Improve machine learning models which power notifications delivery and content, via direct contributions, new features/signals, and/or compelling analyses
- Mentor the scope of work for other data scientists, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you mentor
Skills
- 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/R)
- Proficiency in SQL/Hive
- Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions
- Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams through compelling data narratives
- Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, iterating on a user product via A/B experimentation
- Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Equity
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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