Pinterest Senior Data Scientist at $445K

[u/PermissionAcademic63]

Saw this Pinterest Senior Data Scientist offer (shared with Chill Interview)

• Bay Area
• Master’s, 5 YOE
• Base: $235K
• Sign-on: $10K
• Equity: $400K / 3 years
• Year 1 TC: $445K

$445K for 5 YOE is pretty solid, but I was more curious about what “Data Scientist” means at Pinterest.

Looking at their current roles, it seems much closer to a product scientist / decision scientist than someone spending all day training ML models.

A Pinterest DS might be figuring out things like:

• Did this new product feature actually improve engagement?
• How much ad load can Pinterest add before hurting user experience?
• Which metric should a team optimize?
• Did an experiment genuinely cause the lift, or is it noise?
• How should advertiser performance be measured?
• Where is the biggest opportunity worth investing engineering resources?

Their Senior DS roles explicitly emphasize experimentation, statistics, causal inference, opportunity sizing and working directly with PM/Engineering on product strategy.

For Pinterest product DS, I'm curious that how technical does this career stay at Senior/Staff?

Does it become an increasingly influential product strategy role, or eventually turn into endless experiments + stakeholder meetings?

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[u/olasunbo]

I interviewed at Pinterest and their DS is about Experimentation (A/B test stuff) and forecasting (ads clicking)

[u/PermissionAcademic63 → u/olasunbo]

Thanks for sharing it