Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering - Ads Engagement Core Modeling

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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.

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Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online ad platforms, and our success depends on mining rich user interest data that helps us connect users with highly relevant advertisers/products. In this role, we're looking for an Engineering Manager with experience in machine learning, data mining, and recommender systems to lead a team that develops and executes a vision for the evolution of the machine learning technology stack for ads engagement models. You will be leading a world-class ML team on tackling new challenges such as large CTR models, user sequence modeling, representation learning embeddings, new ads engagement objective modeling, and many more to advance the ML models that power the ads engagement and delivery that bring together pinners and partners in this unique marketplace.

What you'll do:

• Manage and grow the engineering team, providing technical vision and long-term roadmap.
• Design features and build large-scale machine learning models to improve ads engagement prediction.
• Effectively collaborate and partner with several cross-functional teams to build the next generation of ads engagement models.
• Mentor and grow ML engineers to allow them to become experts in ads engagement modeling and prediction.

What we're looking for:

• M.S or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing.
• 1-2 years of experience managing engineering teams as a TLM or EM leading projects/teams either as TL/TLM/EM.
• Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator.
• Experience with ads domain is a big plus.

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.

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