Pinterest is looking to solve the problem of connecting the dots between the aspirations of Pinners and the products offered by their partners through personalized advertising experiences
Requirements
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
6+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing
2+ years of experience leading projects and mentoring team members
Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods
Background in computational advertising is a plus, but not required
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong cross-functional collaboration
Responsibilities
Design features and build large-scale machine learning models to improve user ads action prediction with low latency
Drive innovation in personalized Shopping Ads recommendations through advanced modeling
Develop new methods for inferring user interests from online and offline activity
Mine text, visual, user signals to better understand user intention
Leverage multimodal signals (text, visual, user) to better understand user intent
Collaborate with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad products
Partner cross-functionally with product, sales, data science, and engineering teams to design and improve user journey and optimize ads performance across all stages of retrieval and ranking
Other
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
6+ years of industry experience
2+ years of experience leading projects and mentoring team members
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong cross-functional collaboration
