Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety

The role

You will shape people-facing and business-facing products by using quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms. You will work to evolve the organization into a proactive, metrics-driven operating system to manage risk and improve understanding quality.

What you will do

• Develop a deep understanding of the Pinterest trust and safety platform
• Lead projects on Trust and Safety opportunities across different funnel stages
• Design and productionize robust, scalable ML and evaluation frameworks
• Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation
• Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to product creation and improvement
• Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively
• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights

Required qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
• Proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
• Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches in Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields
• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity
• Fluency in SQL (or other database languages)
• Fluency in a scripting language (Python or R)
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners
• Ability to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions
• Excellent influencing skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Equity

Before you apply

• US based applicants only
• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance

About the company

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories. The company is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.