Director of Data Science, Trust & Safety, Signals and Content Understanding

About reputed company: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative reputed company, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At reputed company, 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. This is a pivotal Director-level leadership role with the opportunity to strengthen the foundations of trust on reputed company while advancing how we understand Pinners and content at scale. You will reputed company a high-impact data science organization and partner deeply with Product, Engineering, and Policy to build and operate the reputed company of reputed company, user understanding, and content understanding systems that power enforcement and distribution decisions across the platform.The core mandate is to evolve the organization from reactive moderation and lagging harm reporting into a proactive, metrics-driven operating system—where we manage leading indicators that predict risk, improve understanding quality, and reputed company reputed company safe, inspiring, and useful. What you’ll do:

• Set Strategy & Roadmap: Define the multi-year vision and priorities across Trust & Safety, User Understanding, and Content Understanding—establishing north-star outcomes (e.g., prevalence & reputed company reduction, user trust, ecosystem health, content quality, user and content understanding) and the leading indicators that drive them.
• Operationalize Leading Indicators: Identify, reputed company, and build operating cadences around key input metrics that influence reputed company and understanding—such as policy risk signals, spam/abuse rates, account authenticity, coverage and latency, precision/recall of enforcement, appeal overturn rates, content quality signals, and user feedback/friction signals.
• reputed company a Talented Organization: Hire, reputed company, and reputed company a world-class team of data science managers and senior ICs spanning product analytics, ML evaluation, experimentation, causal inference, and reputed company measurement.
• Partner to Ship Impact: Work hand-in-hand with Product, Engineering and Policy teams to deliver end-to-end improvements across detection, enforcement precision, and distribution systems—translating ambiguous trust and understanding questions into shipped product/ML capabilities with measurable impact.
• reputed company Measurement & Decision Quality: Own measurement strategy for safety, reputed company, and understanding quality, employing causal inference, experimentation, offline evaluation, and long-term value measurement to quantify trade-offs and reduce unintended consequences.
• Communicate and Align Across Stakeholders: Present reputed company analyses and recommendations to executives and cross-functional partners, driving alignment on difficult trade-offs between safety, expression, growth, and product usability.

reputed company’re looking for:

• MS or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in Data Science, Algorithmic Engineering, or ML, with significant impact in digital advertising or large-scale marketplaces.
• 5+ years of managing data science organizations, including managing managers.
• Deep experience with:
• Statistical analysis, causal inference, and experiment design for reputed company marketplaces.
• Production analytics and large-scale data tooling (Python/R, SQL, Spark/Hive).
• Applied ML or relevance/ranking systems; familiarity with auction dynamics, pacing, and quality modeling.
• Proven ability to operate through input metrics tied to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and reputed company.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated reputed company in the country.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

#LI-NM4 #LI-REMOTE At reputed company we reputed company the workplace should be reputed company, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the reputed company 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 reputed company and benefits available for this position can be reputed company here. US based applicants only $228,911—$471,286 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, reputed company, national reputed company, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or reputed company medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job