Staff Data Scientist, Query Tools & Data Warehouse

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.

Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.

Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more. 

Data is the backbone of both innovation and decision-making at Pinterest. We have over an exabyte of data, 400k+ data tables, and 1000+ employees issuing 3M+ queries to our data warehouse per month, using data for numerous purposes from ML model training to forecasting to opportunity sizing to decision-making across sales, finance, marketing,engineering, product, design, analytics, and data science.

The tools we have to access and derive insights on this data play a crucial role in what insights can be derived and how quickly, how the data is interpreted, and whether the data can be trusted. This layer between the customers and the data plays a crucial role in the productivity of our employees and the quality and speed of decisions that are made on the data. In this role, you will shape how effectively customers can derive insights from the data, from innovations in how we bring natural language to queries, to mechanisms to generate visualizations, to approaches to derive insights on sub-samples of data, and more. You will be a key member of an organization of talented data scientists innovating on data platforms and tools across the company.

We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Data Scientist to help us drive the next step function of analytical velocity at Pinterest.