Director, Machine Learning Engineering

About the company

• Pinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories.
• AI is a powerful partner that augments creativity and amplifies impact.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and investment priorities across Interfaces, Ingestion, User Match, and Conversion Quality.
• Lead managers and senior technical leaders through multi-year ML and data-platform investments.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Ads Quality, Ads Infra, Core, Privacy, Legal, Sales, and Customer Operations.
• Translate advertiser and business problems into scalable ML, data, and platform solutions.
• Raise the bar for experimentation, causal measurement, model quality, reliability, privacy, and production operations.
• Create mechanisms for cross-team design reviews, shared metrics, dependency management, and launch governance.
• Communicate strategy, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Recruit, retain, and develop a high-performing, inclusive organization.

Requirements

• Strong background in ads measurement, identity, signals, and large-scale data processing.
• Experience leading an engineering organization through managers and senior technical leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Experience operating systems with demanding scale, reliability, privacy, and data-quality requirements.
• Track record of improving organizational execution and developing leaders.
• Exceptional analytical thinking and executive communication.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, machine learning, or equivalent experience.
• Nice-to-have: experience with privacy changes, ads optimization, probabilistic matching, graph systems, anomaly detection, ML platforms, real-time/streaming systems, large-scale experimentation, model governance, AI/agentic systems.

Conditions

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
• In-office requirement varies by department.
• Eligible for equity.
• US based applicants only.