Sr. Data Scientist

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.

About the role

Telecommuting and/or remote employment permitted.

Responsibilities

• Perform deep strategic analysis to answer core business and operational questions, including assessing trade-offs between metrics changes and evaluating the overall impact of changes in the ads ecosystem.
• Write clear, actionable data and business analyses to help teams identify areas of improvement and investment.
• Build segmentation models to assess supply and inform pricing strategy.
• Improve decision velocity and quality using the data scientist toolkit, experimentation, and causal inference techniques.
• Design measurement strategies, advise on experimentation best practices, and identify flaws in experiment practices and results, including building tools for experiment analysis.
• Identify the right measures of success for engineering teams and help them track those metrics.
• Break down high-level metrics into actionable segments, including collecting new datasets and building dashboards to track components of a metric (e.g., monitoring conversion data for missing values, implausible values, or duplicated data).

Requirements

Master's degree (or a foreign equivalent) in Finance, Data Science, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related position.

Skills

• Advanced SQL proficiency for large-scale data analysis in distributed data warehouse environments such as Presto, Spark SQL, and Hive.
• Strong Python proficiency for large-scale data analysis and modeling, including the use of pandas, NumPy, statsmodels, and scikit-learn, as well as building robust analysis pipelines and production-ready notebooks or scripts.
• Deep expertise in applied machine learning and algorithmic modeling, including model development, evaluation, and optimization for real-world product use cases.
• Expertise in designing and analyzing online experiments for product changes, including power analysis, variance reduction, guardrail design, and heterogeneous treatment effect analysis on key metrics.
• Ability to structure ambiguous product questions into clear analytical roadmaps and deliver recommendations with quantified impact, risks, and assumptions.
• Expertise in causal inference for observational analyses, including methods such as propensity score matching/weighting and difference-in-differences, to estimate incremental impact and control for confounding factors.
• Experience defining and governing metrics and instrumentation, including event taxonomy, deduplication rules, attribution windows, metric specifications, data contracts, and lineage, to ensure consistency and reliability.
• Experience building scalable dashboards and automated insight-generation workflows to monitor core metrics, surface anomalies, and deliver stakeholder-ready insights for cross-functional partners.
• Experience conducting funnel and ecosystem analyses to identify bottlenecks, quantify trade-offs, and prioritize high-leverage product opportunities.
• Experience performing segmentation and cohort analyses to understand differences in engagement and retention, and to inform targeted interventions.
• Experience building clustering and segmentation models to identify meaningful user segments and usage scenarios.
• Strong statistical modeling and inference skills to quantify effects, measure uncertainty, and communicate statistical significance appropriately.

Pay

$226,089.00 - $287,749.00 per annum.