Distinguished Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves leading the architecture of Pinterest's advertising and measurement platforms, with a focus on campaign management, targeting workflows, and performance analytics. The candidate will develop AI-powered tools for sales and marketing, including next-generation GenAI solutions for enterprise use. Extensive experience in engineering leadership, digital marketing, adtech, and AI innovation is required. The position emphasizes collaboration, technical excellence, and leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to improve advertiser solutions.
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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.
Pinterest is where 500+ million people come for inspiration and to discover ideas and products around their interests and shopping objectives. Advertisers are core to this journey and our platform enables them to launch, measure and optimize their marketing campaigns with confidence. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will lead the architecture for Pinterest’s advertiser experience and measurement platform, while also pioneering the next-gen GenAI-powered tools for sales and marketing effectiveness.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and evolve systems that support campaign lifecycle management, targeting workflows, performance analytics, creative optimization.
- Define the technical standards for attribution models conversion pipelines, measurement integrations (e.g:, MMP’s, clean rooms, tags etc.)
- Lead the development of AI-powered Sales assistant to identify whitespace opportunities and recommend targeting strategies, while aligning advertiser demand with Pinterest supply.
- Collaborate with Sales and engineer, data science to understand advertiser performance on the platform and opportunities to build new ad solutions and products that leverage our latest innovations on visual and multi-modal search capabilities.
- Champion engineering excellence and a data driven culture, mentor senior tech talent and represent Pinterest externally in the tech and AI communities.
What we’re looking for:
- 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including building scalable platforms for ads, experimentation, Analytics and measurement.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Deep understanding of digital marketing, adtech.
- Experience with real time systems, experimentation science, formulating and analyzing AB testing and other causal inference methods.
- Demonstrated innovation in Applied AI and leveraging genAI for enterprise tooling, knowledge retrieval or to build recommender or decision support agents.
- proven track record of leading cross-functional initiatives that span product, GTM, platform and science.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to articulate technical ideas to external and internal business audiences.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- 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.
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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