Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Programmatic Ads

Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Programmatic Ads

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Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

• Manage and grow the engineering team, providing technical vision and long‑term roadmap.
• Design and implement algorithms for real‑time bidding, ad scoring/ranking, inventory selection and yield optimization on the DSP.
• Hire, mentor and grow a team of engineers; set technical direction, manage project roadmaps, and actively guide team execution.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Marketing and Sales – translating business goals into ML requirements and ensuring solutions meet cross‑functional needs.
• Product strategy and advocacy – define and evangelize the ML roadmap for programmatic products; present findings and roadmaps to senior leadership.

• M.S./Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing.
• Experience in programmatic advertising or information retrieval contexts (RTB, DSP/SSP, search); familiarity with ad campaign metrics, auction mechanics and yield optimization.
• Excellent at cross‑functional collaboration and stakeholder communication.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our Pin Flex page to learn more about our working model.

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we’re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in‑person collaboration 1–2 times per month and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices:
  San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Los Angeles.

US‑based applicants only
$294,000 – $514,500 USD

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, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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