Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Content Foundation
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About the Position
Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Content Foundation
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US
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.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
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 base salary range: $222,716-$389,753 USD
- Equity eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Opportunity to work in an inclusive and inspiring workplace
About the Company
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.
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.
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