Pinterest · Posted 2w ago
Staff Data Scientist (Trust & Safety)
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- Location
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Role
- Data science
- Source
- Stapply Data
Stack
- SQL
- Python
- R
The posting
Join Pinterest as a Staff Data Scientist in the Trust & Safety team. You will shape the future of our people-facing and business-facing products by utilizing your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms. Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Product Analytics, and Data Engineering. Your work will influence product development teams and introduce greater scientific rigor into our products serving millions of users worldwide.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to address product and business challenges, leveraging expertise in quantitative modeling and experimentation. - Lead projects focused on Trust and Safety opportunities, designing and productionizing robust, scalable machine learning and evaluation frameworks. - Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, advocating for changes to improve product development and enhance user experience.
- A scientifically rigorous approach to analysis and data, and a well-tuned sense of skepticism, attention to detail and commitment to high-quality, results-oriented output - Minimum 10 years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data - Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields - Excellent communication skills and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners - Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R) - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience - Excellent communication and influencing skills - A team player who’s able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions