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. 

Core to this mission is our ability to enable Pinners to identify the products, services and people that will enable them to realize their dreams while connecting businesses and advertising partners with the customers they need to realize their own. We are looking for a Head of Analytics and Data Science for Ads Growth and Products. This leader will partner directly with Engineering and Product leads for Ads Growth and Products, evolve and realize Pinterest’s monetization strategy (a $1B+ business).

What you’ll do

• Lead & Develop the Team: Lead, grow, and develop an organization of 15+ highly skilled data scientists and product analysts across multiple geos and managers through excellent hiring practices, coaching, team processes, and more.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Solve key technical challenges in understanding and improving the quality of advertisements, measure effectiveness of advertisements and our advertising products, and enhance shopping products on our platform.
• Be a Strategic Thought Partner: Act as a thought leader alongside engineering and product partners; collaborate to develop and evolve our vision for revenue and advertiser growth, improve the quality of our product and enhance platform monetization through rigorous analysis and opportunity sizing. 
• Build a Portfolio of Work: Construct a portfolio of investments across the team that optimize on the short-term and long-term and span the risk vs. reward spectrum. The team will partner with Engineering, Product, Research and Design and will be responsible for building and maintaining a suite of metrics/measurement solutions, driving rigorous experimentation, identifying insights and opportunities to invest in, and building/analyzing models that improve value provided to pinners, advertisers and merchants.
• Drive Rigor and Velocity: Drive a team that yields high quality and actionable results, while maintaining the right balance between velocity and rigor.

What we are looking for: 

• Have a Growth Mindset: A self-propelled intellectually curious continuous learner who keeps up with new tools, methodologies, and the industry and is unafraid to take new challenges.
• Advocate for Product Quality: Someone who emphasizes and advocates for the quality of the product.
• Innovation and Risk Taking: Someone who is consistently looking for new and innovative ideas, drawing from data, the team expertise and the industry.
• A Clear Communicator: Excellent at being able to communicate complex analysis and insights to highly disparate audiences with varying technical depth. 
• Have a Challenger Mindset: You are comfortable challenging the status quo in an effort to make improvements.
• Have Passion for Data: You continue to be hands-on with data regardless of what your role is because it is something you are truly passionate about.
• A Champion of Inclusion and Diversity: You are a proven people leader who ensures that your teams are inclusive of and leverage diverse experiences and backgrounds.
• 10+ years of combined industry and post-graduate academic experience in a quantitative field and a proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing a team of 15+ data scientists and product analysts across multiple locations at a technology company. Experience in leading an organization with managers, ICs, and technical leads.
• 5+ years working in ads, shopping, or e-commerce domains
• 5+ years experience working closely with both engineering and product teams
• 3+ years hands-on individual contributor experience in many of the following areas
  • Ads Quality | Growth | Metric Design | A/B Experimentation Design and Evaluation | Human Evaluation | Machine Learning | Ranking and Recommendation Systems | Causal Modeling | Big Data Processing| Ads measurement
• Hands-on knowledge of SQL and Python or R

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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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.

Our 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, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. 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.