Master's University Grad Data Scientist (USA)
About the Role
At Pinterest, AI is a powerful partner that augments creativity and amplifies impact. This role is for a Data Scientist who is excited to be part of this mission. You will help evolve and shape the future of the product, inspire Pinners, connect them with actionable content, understand advertisers and measure their value, and enable employees to evaluate potential product changes faster. You will apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques, modeling, and data mining while working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners. The results of your work will influence roadmaps, identify actionable product opportunities, refine the experimentation platform, and drive key initiatives, turning insights into real-world products.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the product roadmap and mission using data and exploratory analysis to understand user behavior and trends, and identify opportunities for product innovation.
- Design and implement core metrics that guide team efforts and help design and evaluate A/B experiments that drive these metrics.
- Explore alternative experimentation techniques to help internal teams evaluate their ideas faster.
- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R).
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity.
- Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics, or other related fields.
- Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Ability to connect data analysis to real business problems to impact business performance.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, applied sciences, computer science, or related field.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners.
In-Office Requirement Statement: This role may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our Pinterest offices.
This role is open to US-based applicants only.