Manager II, Machine Learning – Conversion Visibility

About the role

Millions of people come to Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. Join us to help bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Responsibilities

• Lead a hybrid team of ML engineers and backend software engineers to build end-to-end identity and conversion visibility solutions across modeling, serving, and data infrastructure.
• Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, and tech leads to shape problem definitions, translate business needs into technical strategy, and drive execution toward high-impact outcomes.
• Collaborate with Ads Ranking & Bidding, Measurement Products, and Conversion Ingestion & Attribution teams to define interfaces, SLAs, and success metrics that enable end-to-end identity and conversion visibility systems.
• Establish engineering best practices across both ML and backend development, ensuring the team builds trustworthy ML-powered systems end to end.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis and iteration on model ideas and architectures, while applying strong judgment, testing, and verification to ensure correctness, reliability, and advertiser trust.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying large-scale ML systems in production.
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or technical lead.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• Meaningful hands-on experience or strong familiarity with ads conversion attribution, identity matching, ads ranking, or ads measurement domains.
• Proven technical leadership across both ML and software systems, with experience setting direction for multi-quarter roadmaps that span modeling, data pipelines, backend services, and productionization.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, building strong partnerships with product, data science, infra, and partner ML teams to clarify ambiguous problem spaces, co-create solutions, and drive consensus with senior stakeholders.

Skills

• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and analytics.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Benefits

At Pinterest, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plans, and paid time off. We also provide a flexible work schedule and remote work options for eligible employees.

Pay

$189,308—$389,753 USD

Schedule

This role requires in-office collaboration 1 day per week and is eligible for relocation assistance.