Sr. Data Scientist, Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $288K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own marketing measurement in a multi-channel, data-driven growth stack to turn analytics into ROI and action.

  • Growth Analytics: Build measurement frameworks and models across paid, email, organic, events, and in-product touchpoints to quantify ROI.
  • Attribution & Causal Inference: Develop attribution methods and experiments to measure incremental impact and optimize spend.
  • Insight & Reporting: Translate findings for leadership and create dashboards that enable self-serve decision making.

Job Description

    Requirements

    • 6+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems.
    • Masters degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, computer science or engineering.
    • Excellent communication skills, able to lead initiatives and communicate findings to the leadership and cross-functional teams, especially non-technical audiences. Explains work and thought processes clearly and concisely.
    • Hands-on experiences with building marketing measurement solutions to quantify the business impact of marketing tactics and investments.
    • Strong background in statistics and quantitative analysis, with experience in applying advanced statistical techniques to real-world problems.
    • Expertise in at least one scripting language (ideally Python/R). Proficiency in SQL/Hive. Ability to write efficient SQL queries.
    • Strong business and product sense. Strong skills in shaping vague questions into well-defined analyses and success metrics that drive business decisions.
    • Experience leading key technical projects.
    • Strong Experimentation background.
    • Statistical rigor. Experience with causal inference projects.
    Pinterest logo

    Pinterest

    4.1 Glassdoor

    Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.

    Founded in 2010
    San Francisco, California, USA
    13K employees (2,418 in marketing)
    75% recommend to a friend
    74% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    1.4B
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    34.6%
    Direct
    62.9%
    Referral
    1.5%
    Social
    0.7%
    Paid
    0.1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~13.1K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    1,315 (10% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    14 years
    Median Tenure
    3.8 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    8

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $2.5B
    Last Raise
    $1B
    Post IPO Debt, 13 days ago

    Funding History

    • Mar 2026
      Post IPO Debt • $1B
    • Jul 2022
      Post IPO Equity
    • Jan 2020
      Post IPO Equity

    Recent News