Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering, Monetization

About Pinterest :

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.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

Within the Ads Performance and Ads Delivery teams, we try to connect the dots between the aspirations of Pinners and the products offered by our partners. Pinterest Machine Learning Engineers build personalized experiences to help Pinners create a life they love. With just over 4,000 global employees, our teams are small, mighty, and still growing. At Pinterest, you'll experience hands-on access to an incredible vault of data and contribute large-scale recommendation systems in ways you won't find anywhere else.

As a Manager, you will lead and empower a team of talented Machine Learning Engineers, collaborating closely with product managers, data scientists, designers, and engineers across the company to deliver impactful, pinner-facing ad products end-to-end.

We are currently hiring for multiple Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering roles across Ads Ranking, Ads Retrieval, and Ads Marketplace teams.

The scope of the work across these different areas could be leading the ads retrieval team in advancing Pinterest's global Shopping Ads platform through cutting-edge ML technologies and scalable infrastructure, driving impact across a 5B+ ads index; or leading the ads signals team in developing advanced ML signals and pre-training techniques to power Pinterest's ranking and retrieval models, and driving performance through innovative representation learning; or leading the ads marketplace team in building scalable product onboarding systems, applying state-of-art machine learning techniques to enhance ads product triggering, ranking, and selection, and driving value via the ads marketplace systems for bidding, budgeting, ad ranking, tuning, pricing, ad allocation and placement.

What you'll do :

• Lead and scale a high-impact team of Machine Learning Engineers by setting technical vision, developing a long-term roadmap, and fostering a strong team culture
• Design and deploy large-scale ML models to improve engagement prediction, ads retrieval, ranking efficiency, and / or overall marketplace performance
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams (including product, sales, data science, and engineering) to develop next-generation ad experiences that improve conversion, relevance, and value for both Pinners and advertisers
• Contribute to the evolution of our ads stack by advancing ranking models, retrieval candidate generation, signal development, and bidding / marketplace algorithms
• Drive end-to-end development of pinner-facing ad products, ensuring both system scalability and measurable business impact
• Uphold high standards for engineering excellence through strong code quality, scalable system design, and operational best practices
• Stay informed of emerging ML research and industry developments; evaluate and integrate emerging techniques to keep our systems state-of-the-art
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top ML talent while providing hands-on guidance, clear technical direction, and continuous professional development opportunities

What we're looking for :

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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 .

US based applicants only

$208,145 — $364,254 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion :

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.