Sr. Manager, Machine Learning - Homefeed Candidate Generation

Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Homefeed is the surface every Pinner sees when they open the app and forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 500M+ pinners every month. The Homefeed Candidate Generation team’s mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer Engineering Manager who can drive the team’s technical direction, strategic planning and execution.  You'll have the opportunity to lead a team that works cross-team on various innovative projects of new product experiences, builds large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and delivers great impact to our pinners and business metrics.

We are looking for an exceptional senior machine learning engineering manager to help lead the Homefeed candidate generation team located in Palo Alto.

What you will do:

• The candidate will be responsible for major areas of the Homefeed retrieval system for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users, including indexing and first layer ranking, query composition and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos, as well as infrastructure efficiency and scalability. In addition, the candidate will work on innovative applications of embedding based retrieval and other techniques to drive content generation and personalization.
• Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior Homefeed experience to our users, such as Homefeed Product, Infrastructure, research and content signals.
• Deeply understand the Pinterest 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.

What we are looking for:

• Experience leading and working on a large-scale production recommendation, search or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
• Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning experience is required. 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. 
• 5+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 15+ size; 12+ years of software development experience.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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