Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety - Pinterest
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety
- Job Location
- San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US
- Job Listing URL
- https://www.pinterestcareers.com/job-form?gh_jid=6041939
- Job Description
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.
We are seeking a skilled Staff Data Scientist to 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 a basket of metrics to measure overall health of Pinterest Trust and Safety Platform
- Develop a framework to quantify aggregated incurred harm for unsafe categories such as Adult Content, Self Harm, Misinformation, Hate Speech etc
- Research and develop methodology to improve statistical power of existing metrics and experimentation
- Drive launch review process, define launching criteria for Trust and Safety experiments
- Adopt LLM and other state of art techniques to apply on Trust & Safety use cases
What we’re looking for
- 10+ 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 measurement problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Statistical, Econometrics, Optimization, Machine Learnings or other related fields
- 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
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only$174,175—$304,496 USDOur Commitment to Diversity:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify accessibility@pinterest.com for support.
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Pinterest Company Size
Between 3,987 - 3,987 employees
Pinterest Founded Year
2010
Pinterest Total Amount Raised
$1,486,099,840
Pinterest Funding Rounds
View funding detailsIPO
$0
Series Unknown
$20,000,000 USD
Series Unknown
$150,000,000 USD
Series G
$186,000,000 USD
Series G
$367,000,000 USD
Series F
$200,000,000 USD
Series E
$225,000,000 USD
Series D
$200,000,000 USD
Series C
$100,000,000 USD
Series B
$27,000,000 USD
Series A
$10,000,000 USD
Angel
$500,000 USD
Seed
$600,000 USD