Staff Data Scientist, Growth at Pinterest

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

What you’ll do:

Deep strategic analyses to answer growth ecosystem questions such as how to drive long term user engagement and how to balance monthly active user growth, overall user engagement, and revenue.
Product recommendations. Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our internal strategy and decision making processes to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis.
Develop frameworks and metrics to quantify the health of the growth ecosystem and identify opportunities to drive long-term growth.
Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of understanding Pinner behaviors and interests, and their connections to short and long term retention.
Opportunity sizing and analysis. Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies. How do we segment users and provide more personalized experiences for different segments users?
Leadership: Lead and mentor the scope of work for at least one other individual, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you are responsible. Provide continuous and candid feedback, recognizing individual strengths and contributions and flagging opportunities to improve performance.

What we’re looking for:

10+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
Proven ability to apply 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, crafting compelling data narratives.
Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$163,064—$335,720 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

Staff Data Scientist, Growth

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