Sr. Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist at Pinterest in Toronto who shapes product and business decisions through quantitative modeling, online experimentation, and analysis of web-scale data. Works cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Design, and ML teams using SQL, Python/R, statistical methods, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Toronto, ON, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Data science
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with scientific methods on web-scale data
- Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches (Statistics, Machine Learning, Forecasting, Econometrics or related fields)
- Familiarity with online experimentation and its pitfalls
- Scientifically and statistically rigorous approach to analysis with skepticism, attention to detail, and high-quality output
- Ability to manipulate large, high-dimensionality data sets; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R)
- Excellent communication skills; ability to explain learnings to technical and non-technical partners
- Team player able to partner with cross-functional leadership to turn insights into actions
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflow
- Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work
- High integrity and ownership: protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, remain accountable for deliverables
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field such as Data Science, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Experience solving problems within digital advertising
Full description
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.
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist. You will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest. Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation and algorithms will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Product Analytics, Data Engineering and others. The results of your work will influence and uplevel our product development teams while introducing greater scientific rigor into the real world products serving hundreds of millions of pinners, creators, advertisers and merchants around the world.
What you’ll do:
- Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
- Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of product creation, development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of our Pinners.
- Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale while developing comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.
- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest.
- Leverage AI to seek faster execution (i.e. draft, prototype, outline) and explore alternative options (i.e. iterate, compare approaches).