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Staff Data Scientist, Notifications

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remote staff full-time $164,695-$339,078 USD San Francisco, CA

First indexed 5 Aug 2026

Description

At Pinterest, millions of people come to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist, Notifications to join our Core Engineering team.

What you'll do:

  • Develop measurement frameworks and metrics to drive data-driven decision making, optimizing for the full user journey, including product recommendations.
  • Clearly communicate recommendations to product and engineering leadership on how to evolve our Notifications strategy.
  • Conduct opportunity sizing and analysis, writing clear, actionable analyses to help teams identify areas for improvement.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and ML leadership to prioritize and scope projects, informing the development of the notifications user experience and ML systems.
  • Improve machine learning models powering notifications delivery and content.
  • Mentor other data scientists, demonstrating high-quality output.

What we're looking for:

  • 8+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data.
  • Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and/or experimentation.
  • Expertise in at least one scripting language (Python/R).
  • Proficiency in SQL/Hive.
  • Strong business and product sense, with excellent communication skills.
  • Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, iterating on a user product via A/B experimentation.
  • Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others.

Benefits:

  • Base salary range: $164,695-$339,078 USD.
  • Eligible for equity.

Relocation Statement:

  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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