Director,MachineLearningEngineering–Content&UserUnderstanding
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“Director, Machine Learning Engineering – Content & User Understanding at Pinterest. Skills: Machine Learning, VLM, LLM, People Leadership. Lead ML Strategy and Innovation. Set multi-year vision”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver Topline Impact; deliver top line business impacts
Industry & Context.
In-office collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months, US based applicants only
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years of professional experience as a technical leader, 5+ years in people leadership roles (managing managers and senior ICs), Technical degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience, Deep ML expertise: building and operating large-scale ML systems in recommendation, ads or search, Expertise in large scale deep learning, VLM and LLM approaches, Track record to set long term technical vision and lead teams to deliver top line business impacts, Proven success leading complex ML organizations, managing managers, exceptional communication and influence skills to drive close collaboration with multiple partner teams
What You'll Do.
Lead ML Strategy and Innovation
Set multi-year vision
Drive innovation of AI approaches
Lead Execution and Deployment
Ensure models and systems are effective and scalable
Collaborate with Product
and Data Science leaders
Build and Scale ML Organization
Drive ML Influence Across Pinterest
Act as technical spokesperson
Represent team's needs and priorities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science leaders; Form collaboration across teams; Build trust; drive close collaboration with multiple partner teams
Communication Scope
exceptional communication and influence skills
Full Job Description
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. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. We are looking for a Director of Machine Learning to lead the Content and User Understanding team at Pinterest. This leader will define the long‑term ML / AI vision, technical strategy and drive execution for building the company-wide content and user understanding ML models and systems that power Pinterest’s critical product surfaces across homefeed, related, search, shopping, growth and ads. You will oversee multiple teams of machine learning and backend engineers and managers. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and product instincts to deliver industry‑leading ML solutions, including driving state of art innovation in VLM (Vision‑Language Models) and LLM (Large Language Models)-based approaches. What you’ll do: Lead ML Strategy and Innovation for Foundational Content and User Understanding Set the multi-year vision
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