Remote Sr. Data Scientist

Description:

• Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Data Scientist to help uphold its mission of inspiring users and improving their lives.
• The role involves developing best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, and communicating these to product engineering teams.
• Candidates will apply scientific rigor and statistical methods to product creation, development, and improvement, while understanding user behaviors.
• Responsibilities include building and prototyping analysis pipelines to provide insights at scale and advocating for necessary changes in data structures and metrics for product development.
• The position requires collaboration with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to enhance user experiences on Pinterest.
• Telecommuting is permitted.

Requirements:

• A Master’s degree (or its foreign equivalent) in Data Science, Statistics, Engineering (any field), or a closely related quantitative discipline, along with two (2) years of experience in the job offered or a related field, OR a Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign equivalent) in the same fields with five (5) years of progressively responsible experience.
• Special skills required include:
  1. Statistical Modeling
  2. R
  3. Apache Spark
  4. Python
  5. SQL
  6. Machine Learning modeling
  7. Big Data Analytics
  8. Large datasets manipulation & analysis
  9. A/B Testing
  10. Statistical inference
  11. Data Visualization & Presentation
  12. Experimental Design
• Any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience is acceptable.
• Telecommuting is permitted.

Benefits:

• The salary range for this position is $230,000.00 - $254,024.00 per annum.
• The position is eligible for equity.
• Pinterest promotes an equitable, inclusive, and inspiring workplace culture.
• Additional benefits and information regarding the culture at Pinterest can be found on their careers page.