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Staff Data Scientist (Monetization)
Hybrid
Toronto, ON, Canada
$163,064 - $335,720/yearly
Staff
Full-Time
About the role
- We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Data Scientist to help us drive step function improvements in our ads delivery at Pinterest
- Strategy: Evolve our strategy by working closely with product and engineering leaders to build on past learnings and shape our platform’s future
- Experimentation: Improve our experimentation capabilities and tools for assessing our ad delivery system, advise on best practices, identify flaws, and build tools and frameworks for experiment analysis
- Leadership: Lead and mentor peers, improving team output through continuous, candid feedback that recognizes strengths and identifies areas for growth. Be a technical leader for junior data scientists based in the Toronto office
- Communication: Clearly and concisely communicate complex analytical findings and insights to stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds
- Continuous Learning: Stay informed on the latest developments in data science, causal inference, and advertising technology to drive innovation
- Leverage AI to seek faster execution (i.e. draft, prototype, outline) and explore alternative options (i.e. iterate, compare approaches)
- Leverage AI to synthesize information (summarize, distill themes) and automate repeatable tasks (documentation, reporting, QA checks)- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Data Science, or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
- Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
- Expertise in SQL and Python
- 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data, preferred to have working knowledge of ads delivery and optimization systems
- Proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
- High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables
- Experience in digital ad delivery stacks preferred
- Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
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Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where 482 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.