About Pinterest:

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

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Within the Ads Quality team, we try to connect the dots between the aspirations of Pinners and the products offered by our partners. In this role, you will be are responsible for developing and executing a vision for the evolution of the machine learning technology stack within Ads Ranking. You will work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and deep learning to advance the statistical models that power the ads engagement and delivery that bring together Pinners and partners in this unique marketplace.

What you’ll do:

• Provide technical leadership to a team of 10+ ML engineers for ads ranking, providing technical vision and long-term roadmap
• Design features and build large-scale machine learning models to improve user ads engagement prediction
• Develop new techniques for inferring user interests from online activity
• Mine text, visual, user signals to better understand user intention
• Work with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad products

What we’re looking for:

• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
• 7+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing
• 2+ years of experience leading projects/teams
• Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods
• Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator
• Background in computational advertising is preferred, but not required

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Our Commitment to Diversity:

At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love—and that includes our employees. We’re taking on the most exciting challenges of our working lives, and we succeed with a team that represents an inclusive and diverse set of identities and backgrounds.