About the Position

Sr. Data Scientist, Marketing

Location: San Francisco / Remote
Category: Marketing, Communications, and Creative
Type: Regular

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

As a Sr. Data Scientist in Marketing, you will:

Conduct deep strategic analyses to answer critical marketing ecosystem questions, including how to leverage performance marketing programs and other SMB-focused initiatives to efficiently grow Pinterest’s advertiser base and revenue, and how to quantify marketing’s incremental business impact & ROI.
Build statistical and machine learning models from scratch, including advertiser propensity, lifetime value (LTV), budgeting, forecasting, and retention models to inform critical marketing investments.
Lead and advance advertiser geo-testing capabilities, develop new incrementality-testing frameworks, and apply causal inference and experimental methods to measure the incremental impact of marketing activities.
Build scalable experimentation capabilities and tools to evaluate business marketing investments, establish experimentation best practices.
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of advanced measurement frameworks and statistical models to quantify how marketing investments drive advertiser growth and revenue across channels.
Analyze advertiser behavior across the end-to-end journey to identify the factors that influence acquisition, conversion, retention, and churn.
Address complex business questions, including how to improve marketing ROI, optimize budget allocation, measure impact across mature and emerging markets, and identify opportunities to grow Pinterest’s advertiser base and revenue.
Translate complex analytical findings into clear insights and actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
Design, maintain, and promote dashboards and automated reporting solutions that provide stakeholders with self-service, AI-powered decision-making capabilities.
Build and optimize ETL pipelines to automate reporting and support strategic analyses, experimentation, and feature engineering for analytical models.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Marketing, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Data Engineering, and other teams to solve a broad range of business and product challenges.

Requirements

Experience: 6+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems.
Education: Master's degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, or engineering.
Skills:
- Excellent communication skills, able to lead initiatives and communicate findings to the leadership and cross-functional teams, especially non-technical audiences.
- Hands-on experiences with building marketing measurement solutions to quantify the business impact of marketing tactics and investments.
- Strong background in statistics and quantitative analysis, with experience in applying advanced statistical techniques to real-world problems.
- Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R). Proficiency in SQL/Hive. Ability to write efficient SQL queries.
- Strong business and product sense. Strong skills in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions.
- Experience leading key technical projects.
- Demonstrated experience using AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work.
- Strong Experimentation background.
- Statistical rigor. Experience with causal inference projects.

We Offer

Salary: $139,764-$287,749 USD
Equity: The position is also eligible for equity.
In-Office Requirement: In-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter.
Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

About the Company

At Pinterest, we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions on the basis of merit. 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.

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.

By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

Sr. Data Scientist, Marketing

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