Pinterest · 2 days ago
Manager II, Machine Learning-Search
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expPinterest is a platform that inspires millions by helping them discover creative ideas and plan for memorable experiences. The role involves leading the search backend team to enhance the search experience for over 450 million users, focusing on areas like indexing, personalization, and innovative applications of machine learning.
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Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for major areas of the search engine for more than 450 million monthly active Pinterest users, including indexing and document ranking, query and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos, as well as infrastructure efficiency and scalability
Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior search experience to our users, such as Search Product, Infrastructure, research and content signals
Deeply understand the Pinterest search product, and drive the vision for the team
Provide visibility for senior leadership into the team’s global impact
Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company, including product management, data scientists and design
Mentor and grow managers, leaders and engineers on the team
Build a culture of excellence and expertise
Qualification
Required
Experience leading and working on a large-scale production search, recommendation or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology
Applied machine learning experience is strongly preferred. Experience in related fields such as recommendation systems, natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus
Ability to drive the roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end
A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product
3+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ size; 7+ years of software development experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
Company
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.49BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Brandtech VenturesSV Angel
2022-07-14Post Ipo Equity
2020-01-01Post Ipo Equity
2019-04-18IPO
Leadership Team
Bill Ready
Chief Executive Officer
Julia Brau Donnelly
Chief Financial Officer
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