Sr. Data Scientist at Pinterest Job Advertisements
New York, NY
$226,089–$287,749from the description
Jul 27, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data scientist role embedded in an ads ecosystem team, responsible for strategic analysis, experimentation design, causal inference, and segmentation/clustering modeling to inform pricing strategy and product decisions. The work spans building dashboards and automated insight workflows, governing metrics and instrumentation, and translating ambiguous business questions into quantified analytical recommendations. Suits a senior practitioner with deep applied ML, statistics, and large-scale SQL/Python experience.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 2,450–21,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
No specific work location is stated beyond telecommuting/remote being permitted; the CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly.
The posting's 3-year experience requirement is the formal minimum tied to the Master's degree gate; the actual scope and skill depth (power analysis, variance reduction, heterogeneous treatment effects, causal inference, production ML) is consistent with a Senior-level practitioner.
Several skills listed under Special Skill Requirements are methodological capabilities (e.g., funnel analysis, cohort analysis, power analysis) rather than named tools; only concrete named technologies and methods are captured in the skills list.
'Metrics instrumentation' covers the posting's requirement around event taxonomy, deduplication rules, attribution windows, metric specifications, data contracts, and lineage — no single named tool is specified for this.
The reference number L25-172716 suggests this may be a formal labor-condition application posting (e.g., PERM/LCA), which explains the precise salary range and structured language.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): segmentation modeling.
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