Pinterest · 2 days ago

Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$174K/yr - $304K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how we can evolve our Notifications strategy to address shortcomings observed through deep analysis.

Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey.

Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams identify areas of improvement to our growth strategies.

Thought partner to product, engineering, and ML leadership on the Notifications team to prioritize/scope projects and inform the development of the notifications user experience and corresponding ML systems.

Improve machine learning models which power notifications delivery and content, via direct contributions, new features/signals, and/or compelling analyses.

Lead and mentor the scope of work for at least 2 other data scientists, demonstrating high-quality output of both yourself and others for whom you are responsible.

Provide continuous and candid feedback, recognizing individual strengths and contributions and flagging opportunities to improve performance.

Qualification

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StatisticsMachine LearningScripting LanguageSQLData AnalysisA/B ExperimentationTechnical Project LeadershipUser ResearchRecommender AlgorithmsCausal InferenceGrowth FunctionCross-functional Collaboration

Required

8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data

Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation

Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R)

Proficiency in SQL/Hive

Strong business and product sense: delight in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions.

Excellent communication skills: able to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams through compelling data narratives.

Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, iterating on a user product via A/B experimentation.

Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others