21 hours ago
Base Salary
$223k - $390k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design target ROAS, automatic bidding, and ads pacing algorithms.
- Explore bid landscapes to maximize revenue and advertiser value.
- Work with product and sales teams to design and implement bidding strategies for new ad products.
- Run A/B experiments on bidding algorithm improvements.
- Collaborate with other teams to identify and capitalize on bidding and budgeting opportunities.
- Drive technical direction and cross-team alignment as a Staff-level individual contributor without formal people management.
- Use and validate AI-assisted workflows for development, debugging, testing, refactoring, documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering acceleration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of industry experience in ads delivery, automatic bidding or pacing, target ROAS bidding, ads marketplaces or utility, or machine learning.
- Proven Staff-level technical leadership as an individual contributor, including technical direction and cross-team alignment without formal people management.
- Experience with ads delivery, machine learning, bid landscapes, and automatic bidding or ads pacing.
- Ability to use AI to improve workflow speed and quality while validating and stress-testing AI-assisted outputs.
- Direct bidding or pacing experience is preferred.
- Experience with Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants is preferred.
- Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools is preferred.
Benefits
- Eligible for equity in addition to the stated base salary range.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring in-person collaboration three times per quarter.
- Must be within commuting distance of the San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle offices.
- Not eligible for relocation assistance.
Tech Stack
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About Pinterest
Pinterest builds a visual discovery and bookmarking platform where people search, save, and shop ideas across home, fashion, food, and more. The company monetizes primarily through advertising and shopping integrations, using visual search and recommendation systems to connect users and merchants. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest is a public company on the NYSE (PINS) with around 482 million monthly users worldwide.