Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Content Foundation

About the Position

Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Content Foundation

• Location: San Francisco / Remote
• Department: Engineering
• Type: Regular

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. The Content Foundation ML team is responsible for understanding the semantic meaning of Pinterest content and generating high-quality, reusable signals and insights that power relevance and personalization across the platform. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can drive the team’s technical direction, lead the team in building scalable content understanding systems, and make an impact on core Pinterest user and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists in developing foundational content understanding signals, infrastructure, and systems that are integral to key Pinterest products across Discovery, Search, Growth, and Ads.
• Provide thought leadership in content understanding and machine learning by setting a long-term technical vision for semantic signal generation, reusable foundational layers, and scalable model-powered infrastructure. Partner closely with product, data science, and downstream engineering teams to ensure these signals drive meaningful impact across Pinterest.
• Manage project execution and stakeholder communication, including roadmap planning, technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and progress updates to achieve business goals.
• Help the team solve difficult technical challenges such as:

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Publication at top machine learning and data mining conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR).
• Proven technical leadership across both ML and Data systems, with experience setting direction for multi-quarter roadmaps that span modeling, data pipelines, and productionization, and aligning stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution plans.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, building strong partnerships with product, data science, and partner ML teams to clarify ambiguous problem spaces, co-create solutions, and drive consensus with senior stakeholders.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $222,716-$389,753 USD.
• Equity eligibility.
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model with in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter.

About the Company

At Pinterest, we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. We are an equal opportunity employer and make 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.

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