Data Scientist II - Trust and Safety

We are seeking a Data Scientist to help enhance measurement on Trust and Safety within our organization. You will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest. Your expertise in quantitative modeling experimentation and algorithms will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product Engineering Design Research Product Analytics Data Engineering and others. The results of your work will influence and up-level our product development teams while introducing greater scientific rigor into the real world products serving hundreds of millions of pinners creators advertisers and merchants around the world.

What you’ll do

• Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love

• Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of product creation development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of our Pinners

• Implement metrics to measure overall health of Pinterest Trust and Safety Platform

• Instrument methodology to improve sensitivity of existing metrics and experimentation

• Design reusable toolings and workflow for ongoing metrics monitoring and reporting

Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights and collaborate closely with product managers engineers designers and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest

What we’re looking for

• 3+ 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 Modelling Forecasting Econometrics or other related fields

• Experience using machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or scikit-learn

• 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

• 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)

• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners

• A team player who’s able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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