# Staff Data Scientist, Forecasting

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $164,695-$339,078 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact. We're looking for a Staff Data Scientist, Forecasting to own the strategy and implementation of forecasting models of key company metrics.

**Responsibilities:**

- Be the technical lead for the forecasting team, owning the strategy and implementation of forecasting models

- Lead the full modeling lifecycle end to end: problem framing, feature engineering, model development and prototyping, experimentation and backtesting, deployment, monitoring/drift detection, and explainability

- Set the forecasting technical vision, defining model architectures and standards, and partner with Engineering to shape the forecasting platform

- Translate forecasts into decisions, presenting outputs, scenario analyses, and recommendation frameworks to senior leadership

- Drive broader time-series impact beyond point forecasts

- Embed forecasting into the business, partnering with BizOps/Finance and product teams

- Lead and mentor a team of at least two data scientists

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience building and shipping production time-series/forecasting models

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience

- A track record of delivering adjustable, well-calibrated, and explainable forecasting systems

- Strong background in time-series modeling and applied statistics/econometrics

- Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python)

- Strong SQL skills and experience building reliable data pipelines/workflows

- Business acumen and ownership mindset

- Excellent communication skills

- Proven technical leadership

**Benefits:**

- Base salary range: $164,695-$339,078 USD

- Eligible for equity

**Relocation:**

- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance

## Skills

### Required
- time-series modeling
- applied statistics
- econometrics
- Python
- SQL
- data pipelines

### Nice to have
- advanced degree (MS or PhD)
- technical leadership

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